mudpuppy masterpiece

Kal liked trying to catch things, hit things, and bite things.  The particular thing he’d been chasing was a really fast lizard that was refusing to just give in.  The lizard was small and fast.  Kal would bite where it had been only to find it moved at the last moment. This time! Kal took another bite only to find the lizard had found some small crack in the earth and fit through it.  Ugh!

The boy wandered along idly looking for a new source of entertainment.  He spotted two more of the pups farther off and was about to run up to say hi when he spotted a couple of white and black birds hanging out between where he was and the other kids.  Kal grinned, crouched low to the ground, took one whole slow step forward before letting out a ‘whoo’ and charging the birds with powerful puppy yaps.  Yeah, he didn’t catch anything, no surprise there.  Jumping up in the air and snapping at air was fun though.  Looking up he watched the birds flying off giving a firm nod.  He showed them!  Whoops…one of the birds had landed a short distance further down!

Kal charged the bird which took flight and as Kal was about to jump after it his foot slipped on the wet mud and grass that was suddenly under him.  The boy went splat into the mud, glancing to the other two pups sheepishly, “Hey,” then his attention to the rock with muck on it curiously.  “Whatcha making?”  Making something seemed a good idea!  The boy glanced all about and then to some of the feathers the bird had left behind.  Were those useful for anything?

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