A lisseceous was lost in the swamps.
It was so dirty here, like, how could anything live here?
All there was-a bunch of trees and dirty water-and too fertile soil.
He could go on for days describing how dirt this place was
No wonder nobody lives here
The liss-AKA Grass, drank some water.
Almost immediately, a starved looking nymphasuchus jumped at him.
He screamed and tried to run, but the nymph dragged him underwater.
It blinked before realizing he wasn't drowning.
He realized it was dying of starvation.
He couldn't leave the poor thing to die.
He quickly grabbed some of his packed food which was supposed to be for camping, but the nymph was much more important.
It sighed in relief as it snapped some up.
He realized the nymphasuchus was another teen.
"Hello..sorry for trying to kill you.." it started nervously.
"That's fine. I know you were hungry. When any carnivore is hungry, it looses its mind!" Grass joked.
The nymph laughed
"My name is Grass!"
"Mine is Everglades, but EG for short!"
"Oh! Cool!"
"Why are you all alone out here?" he asked EG
"Nymphasuchus are not often found with their parents, as food is scarce in the jungle and nobody is really that generous.."
"That's sad. Want to come to the plains with me?"
"Plains? Whats that?" EG blinked
"The plains has no trees, and there's always something to eat!"
"Sounds like heaven.."
"If you like that you would faint at the sight of the desert oasis!"
"Huh? What oasis?"
"The city gathering thingy."
"Oh! Sounds cool!"
"How do you not know all this?"
"Meh. Nymphs aren't very educated. We don't go to school since we dont have a society system. We're sorta loners." he said
"Oh. Why dont nymphs just live together?"
"Because females get overprotective when nesting and kill other females on sight. It justs ruins the chance of any society, really."
"Other species are like that too! They just trust eachother."
Silence.
"Sorry if I was offensive-"
"No. You weren't. You just..remind me of someone."
Grass could see he had pushed his luck too hard.
"Oh.." he said in a small voice.
EG was looking at something with sad eyes.
"What are you looking at?"
"Pantanal-I mean, nothing.."
"Who's Pantanal?"
"I-I-I can't tell you that. He wouldn't have liked it.."
"Wait..have liked? You mean he's not alive?"
"Sort of.." he said quietly.
"Who was he?"
"My only friend who actually trusted me and stayed with me..the rest didn't want me around.."
"Oh..so you're hallucinating?"
"No!" EG cried
"He's talking to me..I can feel it, it is him!"
"So you are hallucinating, basically."
"No! For the millionth time, no!"
"Sure, croccy."
"My name is EG and you know it." he huffed
"Ok, croccy"
Grass burst out laughing as EG pouted.
"Let's go to the plains, croccy."
And so, both were laughing as they set off for the plains.
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