Hangry Hangry Hippos

Mochi observed the fast-flowing river considering. It seemed... unwise to just dive right in and try to cross it, the water was flowing far too quickly. Add to that the clearly 'not-logs' that rumbled their warnings to each other when another got too close and the small ears and jets of water that appeared when hippos breached and well... Entering the water sounded like something someone asking to lose a limb would do.

Or at least, that had been her thought until an angry bellow sounded from the clearing just behind her. Her head whipped back to the water catching sight of a hateful little baby hippo smiling at her, and then back to it's very angry mother. Maybe she was no better off on the land between a hangry mother hippo and her baby in the water.

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