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Today is FOOL DAY, but I didn't play any PRANKS on anybody. Most people here don't. I think they did more when Nessie-auncle and Big Sam were kids. Secret told people her name is ISABELLA and laughed and laughed if they believed her, because her name is still a SECRET. Bina put a TRAP in Morning's desk at school so it went POOF with GLITTER, but she got in trouble even though it's Fool Day. Now our WHOLE CLASS sparkles.
Mlle. Squeaks is getting better at chasing things down and BITING them. She ESPECIALLY likes rainbow-colored things like MY TAIL. She gets frustrated if something she wants keeps getting away and makes a really CROSS squeak until somebody gives her a rainbow-colored toy to chew on. When she learns to WALK she'll be able to bite everything she wants.
VV-gram took Tiny Squeak for an ASTEROID DREAM, but she didn't like not having gravity. It was OK when she was snug in the carrier, but when she was floating without gravity, she wiggled and cried and SPIT UP until somebody caught her and held her tight. It's OK, Tiny Squeak, we won't let you float away!
Lots of other people liked Eleventy-Twelve Barbados. When we did a Magic Dreaming class, everybody tried to go there, so we followed them and kept them together. It was a little bit SCARY at first, but then they all ended up in Barbados, because there isn't anywhere ELSE to go. We didn't think of doing that on purpose, but it's a really GOOD idea for classes! Everybody liked Barbados because they'd never been on an asteroid or met ALIENS. Our students zoomed all over, because ultramodern people don't get sick without gravity, and said nihao to everyone, and thought everything was GREAT. I think the sluggos were CONFUSED, but everybody likes it when people say their favorite places and their favorite things are great. We didn't have any Barbados money to buy things, but Isaac bought some cool alien things for people who petted him and said he's a really GOOD kitten. I don't know if that was really OK, but he got lots of petting!
Some of the grownups made us take them back to Barbados another night, so they could trade big barrels of ORGANIC VOLATILES for TISSUE SAMPLES. They want to see if any of the aliens have good GENES for making new ultramodern people, but they want SCIENCE too. Our students are really cool.
I went back to Barbados another time without the students, so I could show Cattail how great it was. He floated all over, and bought some shiny patches to stick to his fur for FASHION, and when he accidentally floated into WATER, he stuck his trunk out and didn't drown. Good job, Cattail! I was worried, but you had it UNDER CONTROL. The sluggos were SUSPICIOUS at first because he's bigger and furrier than me, but he's really nice and cute so they decided they liked him and gave him FANCY ALGAE to eat.
Then Space Train was done with COMMERCE so it orbited Barbados faster and faster and got to ESCAPE VELOCITY. Now it's on the way to MARS!
The Bear-grams sent us more pictures from Mars. They got their house all nice, and they started teaching so they sent pictures of their STUDENTS. They're teaching kids in Max and Annabelle's level. Both classes made a PYRAMID together because the gravity is really LOW so they can hold each other up. It was really CUTE. It made Big Sam happy to see his parents doing really GOOD and HELPING people.
I helped with the FARM a bunch this week. We have to get the SOIL all broken up and fertilized and ready for PLANTING. It's hard work, but we're almost done.
Hebichi and I did lots of BIKING. Sometimes we rode on the race course near us, or on the one that's over past the Spider Park, and then other kids who were practicing rode with us and we CHEERED for each other. I didn't win, but I'm getting better at JUMPS and TURNS and not worrying about WIPING OUT. I still wipe out a lot, but I have a helmet and pads so it's OK. Sometimes the course was TOO CROWDED, so Hebichi and I rode around streets and parks. Sometimes Jean and Blond Dmitry and Spin and the twins and other kids rode with us. It was fun, except when we got in TROUBLE for going too fast on the sidewalk and almost RUNNING OVER some people. That made me really LITTLE inside. I don't wont to hurt anybody! We had to be more CAREFUL after that.
It was a pretty good week. I got lots of Tiny Squeak bites, but lots of Tiny Squeak CUDDLES too, and I didn't have to go to the hospital from wiping out on my bike at all. I think I can even feel some new TEETH starting to grow where my old ones got knocked out. You can do it, teeth!
Last night I had a REALLY HORRIBLE dream.
Annabelle and Secret and I went to visit Secret's HIPPOPOTAMUS friend Blossom. It was a nice day, so we went for a walk in the forest uphill from the river where Blossom's house is, but my paws were WIGGLY so I RAN. I ran and ran through the forest until I heard a KITTEN CRYING. Then I ran to see if they needed help, and they DID. I jumped up on a dead tree and I saw the leopard kitten right away, because a great big snake was EATING them! I shrieked, but snakes aren't good at hearing, so it kept eating kittens, and I was too busy running to sing any magic songs. I ran as fast as I could, but when I got there, the snake was finishing up the LAST kitten. I did the Monster-Defeating Quack, but it wasn't a monster, it was just a regular snake that was mad I bothered it at lunchtime.
I didn't know what to do, but then I remembered that snakes swallow their food WHOLE and thought the kittens might still be ALIVE. I pounced on that snake and KILLED it and then I sang the Please Be Alive Song while I tore it APART. I sang as loud and POWERFUL as I could, but it didn't work. There were 4 kittens who got eaten, and they were all DEAD. The snake was dead too, and it didn't even HELP.
Annabelle and Secret and Blossom caught up with me and they saw what happened and we cried and cried. We buried the kittens and said, "Yesterday, cats ate prey. Today, plants eat cats. Tomorrow, prey eats plants." That's what cats say at FUNERALS. We didn't have any seeds, but we were in a forest and we buried the kittens in the SUNSHINE and sang the Beautiful Flowers Song. It was the best we could do.
We buried the snake too, because I felt bad for killing it for NO REASON.
We waited for the kittens' MOM to come back, but she never did. Maybe she got killed somewhere else in the forest, or somebody caught her for a zoo and didn't care she had kittens, or maybe she ABANDONED them. Wild animals do that sometimes when their babies are too hard to take care of, because they aren't smart enough about the future to know the babies will DIE. They just go away and stop thinking about them and have some more babies another time. It makes us all feel REALLY BAD to know about that, but being a wild animal is HARD and SAD lots of the time.
I thought all our TEARS came out, but when Annabelle and I woke up, we had MORE tears. Everybody hugged us and wanted to know what happened, but we didn't want to tell them because then they'd feel bad too. We hid under Fairy-mom and whispered to her and she hugged us and said she would never let snakes eat us. She's a really GOOD mom.
Fairy-mom said we didn't have to go to fighting class, but we wanted to, so we can PROTECT kittens. I needed RUNNING, not fighting, but maybe next time will be more like when I helped save Jaden from the ELVES. I'm going to ask about FIGHTING songs in Magic Singing class, too.
I was really sad all day. I got a lot of hugs from everybody, but I still cried a lot, and some other kids cried too when I told them why I was sad. In the afternoon, Secret and her mom came to visit, and they were sad too, but Secret and Annabelle and I snuggled together in the treehouse and Zora petted us and told me I was brave for trying to protect the kittens. We cried on her a little bit.
Nobody said it was wrong for me to kill the snake, but mostly they understood when I said I wouldn't have if I knew it wouldn't HELP. Some people thought it was good that that snake couldn't eat any more kittens, but it's a big forest and there are lots of snakes. I don't want to make them EXTINCT, I want people to take better care of kittens!
Now I'm worried Tiny Squeak will have a dream adventure on her own and something BAD will happen to her because she's so little and can't walk or fight. I know her mum and her family will be always with her to keep her safe, but I still worry.
I had an imaginary dream where I was a baby kitten, even littler than when I first remember, and Max and Annabelle and Tiny Squeak were with me, and then a HUGE MONSTER came to eat us. It was REALLY BAD. Our parents came and saved us, but when I woke up, I had to think about how the leopard kittens were that scared, and NOBODY saved them, and they DIED. I cried for a long time, until I ran out of TEARS.
When I went back to sleep, I went back to the forest with Annabelle and Secret and Blossom, but this time Humboldt and Cattail were with us. We sniffed all around where the leopard kittens had been, but we didn't smell any mom leopards. If she didn't come back after a whole day, either she can't or she isn't going to. That means the kittens were going to die pretty soon even without snakes, but that didn't make me feel better. If I ran FASTER yesterday and got there first, maybe I could have smelled them and scared the snake away and taken CARE of them and taken them to Starfall or to my zoo. I know it's not my fault because I didn't KNOW, but I felt bad anyway.
We went back to Blossom's house and ate some salad and sushi and let her parents give us GIANT nose-bumps. They told us how nobody can fix ALL the bad things in the world, so everybody has to do the BEST THEY CAN and not feel bad about not doing better. I know that, but I still want to be able to help MORE.
Cattail and Blossom's family are getting to be friends. Hippos and mastydons are all big ROUND animals with STOMPY feet, and Cattail and Blossom are KIND OF the same age. Watching them play made me feel better.
I cuddled Tiny Squeak a LOT and promised we would never leave her alone to get EATEN. She has a BIG family so we can do that. If VV-gram had to raise her ALONE, it would be really hard. I cried on Tiny Squeak a little bit, and she washed my face and squeaked at me really NICE so I felt better. Tiny Squeak can't talk yet, but I can tell she has a GOOD HEART.
Tiny Squeak ALMOST stood up this week, but she could only get 3 paws at the same time, so she fell over and squeaked really CROSS. Keep trying, Mlle. Squeaks!
One afternoon Max said she was going to the PARK to find kids to play with, but she got DISTRACTED by someone with a HUGE DOGGIE she wanted to be friends with, and then when the doggie was done walking and went home, she saw someone riding a bike with a BIRDIE on their shoulder that she wanted to be friends with, and like that. When she ran out of animals to follow at dinnertime, she was REALLY FAR and didn't know where our house was. She didn't want to bother us by calling for HELP, so she asked somebody which way our house was, but they didn't think it was OK for a young kitten to be BY HERSELF and called our PARENTS. Number-dad went to get her on his motorcycle and brought her home, but she was LITTLE inside. She was really sorry because while she was waiting for Number-dad, she realized all she had to do was go to the lake and see where the WIND TOWERS are to find her way back. That was good thinking, Max! She got in some TROUBLE for not telling people where she was going, even though she said she didn't have any problems. I know she didn't make good decisions, but it's hard to resist DOGGIES. Now she has to have an older kid go with her everywhere, because she ISN'T mature enough to go out on her own. That's really embarrassing for her, but she's being DIGNIFIED about it.
I don't think they're CONNECTED, but I have another thing to write about Max. She's thinking about changing her unique birthday to a REGULAR birthday so she can have the same party as lots of other people. The summer solstice is CLOSER to July, but she said she might change it to the FALL equinox, like Tiny Squeak and me and Nico! I said she doesn't have to, but she says she's THINKING about it. I think it would nice to have another sibling with the same birthday as me, but it's OK if Max has her OWN birthday.
I wonder if I'll get another sibling someday. Maybe after we're grown up, our parents will have more kittens, like VV-gram and Tiny Squeak. That would be WEIRD, but maybe it would be nice. Maybe I'll have my OWN kittens then.
It rained in the Dreamlands, so the grass in the park was WET, and when Dmitri and Jeanne's friend LN was playing soccer, her foot went the WRONG WAY. It didn't break, but the tendons and ligaments got STRAINED and now she has to wear a special boot and can't play soccer for 4 WEEKS. She's pretty sad because she REALLY likes soccer, but Jeanne will give her lots of kisses and Dmitri will give her FLUFFY snuggles, so I hope she's OK.
That same day, Peanut Butter Dragon, that's Dragon 84, was trying to climb a really steep hill and it GAVE WAY. Maybe that was because of rain too. Dragons are really tough, but they're really BIG too, and the bigger you are, the more it hurts when you FALL. Peanut Butter Dragon's leg got so hurt that it BROKE. He had to hop all the way back to town on 3 legs to find somebody with a truck to drive him to Dragon Clinic, and he cried a lot. Dragons aren't used to getting hurt! Shoe-auncle gave him a bunch of medicine and Elephant Cat and a big WINCH helped get his bone STRAIGHT again, and then we all helped make a BRACE to keep it straight while it heals. Polkadot Dragon and Checkerboard Dragon came to help get the brace on and they licked Peanut Butter Dragon's leg a whole bunch. I think they learned that from CATS. I hope it helps him get better, because nobody knows how long it takes dragon bones to heal.
It was a really BAD day for LEGS!
This was a really BAD week. I hope next week is better. Probably we're going to go to visit the sheepies. That will be nice.
Today we went to Tansy's Sheep Place for SHEARING. The weather was cold there until now, so we didn't go before. We got up really EARLY to drive, but I went back to sleep in the van and had an imaginary dream about aliens making people do art and putting magic spells on train stations to keep people from being mean. It was WEIRD but PRETTY.
We did a masquillion hugs with sheepies and grams and auncles and monkeys and doggies and EVERYBODY and we all did the Shearing Dance and helped shave all the sheepies' WOOL off. It's really funny with the electric clippers, because you cut the wool loose at the skin, but it's so CURLY it sticks all together in a lump and it's like peeling an ORANGE. Then we had lunch together with everybody and sang the Let's Sell This Wool For Lots Of Money Song. Sheepies with no wool feel WEIRD, but they like when you help them put on SWEATERS. I got a masquillion nose-bumps, which made me REALLY happy. I love you, sheepies!
We drove tonight, and now it's really LATE so I'm going to write about the rest of the week TOMORROW.
I dreamed I went to help Shoe-auncle in the Dragon Clinic. Peanut Butter Dragon was still there, because going home was too much walking, but the other dragons brought him his dragon blankie and his snacks so he could be COMFY. Dragon blankies are just big canvas TARPS or sometimes old SAILS, so they're only comfortable for huge people with tough scales, but the dragons like them. Everybody likes the dragons, because they're really NICE to everybody, so lots of cats came to take turns cuddling with his broken leg and purring the Get Better Soon Song. While I was giving him purrs, I talked to Shoe-auncle about the leopard kittens that got eaten. He was a veterinarian for a long time, so he saw LOTS of kittens that died. He said sometimes there just isn't anything you can do. When kittens get abandoned by their mom like that, probably they're going to die even if you bring them to a vet, so maybe getting eaten by a snake was less suffering than dying of THIRST. I don't like that, but maybe he's right. I cried on his ruff and he washed my ears until I felt better. He's a really good auncle.
My whole family went to give Peanut Butter Dragon purrs for his leg this week, but not all at the same time. Big Sam and Nico and Rei and Lilja and Zeb and Bob and Momo don't have purrs, but they took him snacks and played games with him and like that so he didn't get BORED. I'm glad everybody wanted to take CARE of Peanut Butter Dragon.
When Elephant Cat and Rose-auncle were there, they started talking about how Elephant Cat is going back across the OCEAN, and Rose-auncle wanted to go explore that continent. Elephant Cat said it's a long ways and it's really DIFFERENT there, but Rose and Clover are INTREPID. Then Dmitri heard, and now the whole Exploration Club wants to go too! Their parents haven't said yes, but they didn't say NO WAY so maybe it will happen.
I really want to go because it sounds EXCITING, but I have to take care of my ZOO. I don't know if it would be worse for something bad to happen at the zoo and I'm not there to help, or for something bad to happen and they don't need me and I'm NO GOOD. I have to think about it a lot.
The twins KIND OF want to go too. It isn't Mars, but they're about to get to Mars on the Space Train, and maybe it'll be LIKE a different planet. They're thinking too.
I went to Space Train to give Isaac Mewton a HUGE hug. I'm really glad he's getting to grow up instead of getting EATEN by aliens. We floated in his QUARTERS, that's like an apartment on a space train, and ate shrimp bao and looked at all the cool STUFF he got on Eleventy-Twelve Barbados. He got lenses and weights and prisms and WHIRLING GADGETS and bottles of STARDUST. He has a little round glass thing that looks black until you hold it up to the light and see that it's KIND OF orange-purple except it's TOO GREEN. It reminds me of the really scary monsters from OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSE, like Hound-teacher and Nyarly-baby. The sluggo who sold it to him said it's from asteroid 8 MASQUILLION 33 Zooble. I don't know if I like WEIRD things like that coming from an asteroid that uses my special number. Isaac thinks it's really COOL, though.
Cally-auncle and everybody who's learning Dancing Spider Glyphs went back to Cryptotherium Valley to see if the snow has melted. It's MOSTLY melted, especially down in the bottom of the valley where the stone circle is. There were a lot of VULTURES there, and when we went to see if something bad happened, we found a whole bunch of dead GIANT TURKEYS. We think they got killed in the avalanche but then they were buried in SNOW so the vultures couldn't find them and eat them until the snow melted and the dead turkeys got REALLY STINKY. We tried to check on the standing stones, but the smell was SO BAD we had to run away. We'll come back later, after the vultures and everybody are done cleaning up.
I think maybe the turkey that attacked Spin and got killed by Maz was part of that flock, and only attacked a snowmobile because it was so UPSET about its friends getting killed. That made me feel really bad for it, but I didn't say anything. I don't want Maz to feel bad for PROTECTING Spin.
When we were playing with Tiny Squeak, Toka came over and said, "I'm going to eat this SQUEAKY POTATO" and opened their mouth really big. I made a big SQUACK, but then I got embarrassed because it's OK to PRETEND to eat kitties and ran outside. I didn't get very far before Hebichi CAUGHT me, and then after Toka put Mlle. Squeaks down really CAREFUL they came out and hugged me too. I had to tell them I had a really bad dream about wild kittens getting eaten for real and we all cried together a little bit. Toka said, "Being wild is really HARD. That's why all the kitties who don't have anybody to take care of them should come live with ME!" That's really SWEET, but I don't know what your dads would think of that, Toka!
I asked VV-teacher and Number-teacher about FIGHTING with magic singing in class. I already know some Anti-Vampire Song, and I know the Monster-Defeating Quack even though it's not really magic singing. I had to tell everybody why I wanted to know, and we were sad together. Then we talked about fighting magic and how easy it is for it go WRONG and kill somebody you wanted to stop or hurt somebody you wanted to protect. If I tried to sing ab Animal-Defeating Song, maybe I would have hurt the kittens instead, just like if I tried to shoot it and missed. It made me feel bad that it's hard to be a HERO like in shows. Real life is TOO COMPLICATED.
I saw 2 old shows this week that I liked. 1 was about a girl who lived in a MAGIC house in a MAGIC valley. Everybody in her family had a SPECIAL TECHNIQUE, and their magic house made them a SPECIAL ROOM that was bigger INSIDE. Maribel didn't have a special technique, though, so her gram and everybody, even her, thought she was NO GOOD. She found out everything was FALLING APART and helped fix it, even when all the people who had special techniques didn't. It was a show about how special techniques aren't the most important part of people, and LOVE is the most important part of a family. The other was about a girl who found out her family's special technique was turning into a GIANT red panda. They thought it was a CURSE, and tried to make Mei get rid of it like they did, and it caused a lot of trouble because her mom and gram and auncles didn't, but in the end she KEPT it. It was a show about how everybody has MESSY feelings inside them that just get worse if you try to keep them in, and also parents have to let kids do fun stuff like go to CONCERTS or they'll get grouchy and SNEAKY. I liked both the shows, but our parents said we should BEHAVE so they didn't have to turn into GIANT PANDA MONSTERS and go on RAMPAGES. I think that would be really COOL to see, but only if they were mad at somebody ELSE.
We talked a lot about special techniques, because none of us have ours yet. We don't even know if we'll get any! We think we will because we're getting Fairy-mom's FAMILY special technique of standing up, and Number-dad and his siblings have special techniques, but nobody knows how it works. Songcats come from the Dreamlands, so we're MYSTERIOUS.
We all thought that because we're already BIG CATS, and we can stand up, turning into a red panda, even a GIANT one, isn't really great. The 1st show had lots ore special techniques, but we weren't sure if we wanted them. One girl was really STRONG, but we have CRANES and TRUCKS and ROBOTS for that now. I think being able to talk to animals might be great, but if it worked on wild animals, it might make me really SAD. Everybody else said it would be NO GOOD because then they would feel bad about hunting, but I think that would be OK. Making flowers and plants grow and telling them what to do would be good. I could make all kinds of flowers for Number-dad! Another one of the sisters had magic LISTENING, but that might be really hard in a city full of people. Changing to look like different people would be good for a NINJA. Having the weather always be like your FEELINGS would be NO GOOD except for somebody really CALM like Nico or Big Sam. I think cooking food that HEALED people would be really great, but maybe people would want you to do it all the time and that would be no fun.
The SECRET auncle in that movie could see the FUTURE, and that's really POWERFUL but really SCARY. None of us are brave enough to want that special technique!
We talked about lots of different special techniques that might be good or bad and then we fell asleep and dreamed about trying to STEAL special techniques from underneath the Dreamlands. We still didn't have any when we woke up. I want my special technique to be SAVING KITTENS.
I had to take Max lots of places, because she's still GROUNDED from going out on her own. It was a little bit ANNOYING because I wanted to go to my OWN places, but she came with me to bike riding and rode her little bike on the course and YELLED and everybody thought she was really CUTE. She's lots braver than me!
It was a better week than last week, even though we had RAIN. We slept out on the porch and listened to the rain and cuddled up COZY and it was really nice. The farm liked the rain a lot, and tiny SHOOTS are starting to come up. I'm glad we don't have any animals that come and eat our plants!
We learned more about songs to help people do BETTER in Magic Singing class. Maybe if I sang the Get Over There Faster Song, I could have stopped the snake and helped the kittens. We worked on the Please Stay Alive Song, too, because that's good in LOTS of emergencies. Simon and Stiv both said I did really GOOD. I was practicing hard because I want to stop bad things from happening!
After class I tried using my SKATEBOARD with the Get Over There Faster Song, and I went really FAST as long as the sidewalk was SMOOTH. If there was even a tiny bump, I WIPED OUT. I need more PRACTICE before I can do Magic Skateboarding!
When I got to Hebichi's house, they were hugging Toka a lot, because Toka was having a bad day. They had a dream about going to see a movie and taking BABY kittens with them, but the kittens ran everywhere, and other people had kittens, and there were some kittens at the theater, and they were all NEW kittens so people didn't know them well, and they got all mixed up. Toka didn't know where THEIR kittens were, and was worried that some kittens might run outside and get hurt, so they got really ANXIOUS. They found some plastic bags to keep the kittens organized, but even though they made sure to keep the bags OPEN for breathing and didn't put in so many kitties that the ones on the bottom got squished, there weren't enough bags and there were still kittens EVERYWHERE. Toka got more and more anxious about lost kittens until they woke up CRYING and had to go cuddle between their Daddy and their Poppy. When they went back to sleep, some people had gotten the kittens a little more ORGANIZED, and all the people liked the kittens they had and all the kittens liked the people they had. Toka was still really anxious about MIX-UPS, though, and kittens getting lost.
I gave Toka a lot of hugs, because that sounds like a really upsetting dream! They had all of their kitties for snuggles, too, so they were kind of OK. Poor Toka! They made a really GOOD plan, though. When they go to sleep, they're going to get the CAT CAFÉ to come and scoop up all the kitties that are still running around. They'll set TRAPS to catch any kitties that are hiding, and then they'll take them all back to get taken CARE of. Toka's really smart!
Toka's plan worked and now the Cat Café has lots of new kittens! I went with Cattail and the pirate kitties and Spin to look, and it was ADORABLE. All the kitties are really nice and good with people, and they're getting names like pasta and fruit and sports games, and they'll probably get families soon. Good work, Toka!
Toka said I had to give them a bunch of kisses for being so smart, so I DID.
Tiny Squeak still hasn't figured out how to use all her legs at the SAME TIME, so she can't stand up or walk yet. She scoots around until she runs into a BUNNY or a DOGGIE or a FOOT and then rolls away so they chase her and tickle her tummy, and laughs and laughs. She's getting really good at laughing! She's good at imitating sounds, too. When she wants milk, she sings the song her BOTTLE plays when it warms up, and she bleats like Lilja-auncle and barks like Beethoven. Sometimes Tiny Squeak and Beethoven get carried away barking at each other, and BARK UP A STORM. It's REALLY cute!
I had a REALLY BAD accident in Choir. We were singing a song called You Light Up My Heart and I sang so powerfully it was MAGIC SINGING and everybody who was singing with me LIT UP. It was really pretty because everybody's HEART glowed a different color and the choir was like a RAINBOW, but it was also really BAD because it's not OK to put magic on people without asking! The choir people didn't get REALLY mad at me, but they called my parents and Dragon-mom came and she was MAD! She took the magic off everybody and made me leave class so she could SCOLD me for not being careful. It was really UNFAIR because I wasn't trying to do any magic at all! It just HAPPENED! I tried to not cry because I'm 10, but it didn't work. When we got home, I hid in my closet and felt REALLY BAD. If we were singing a different song, I might have HURT people.
Dragon-mom and Fairy-mom and Number-dad all talked to me about how I have to be more careful because my magic singing is getting POWERFUL. Dragon-mom said she was SORRY for getting mad, because it wasn't my FAULT, but I think it KIND OF was. Wizards have to be really careful with magic. They said I'm grounded from Choir class and have to practice REGULAR singing with Number-dad and VV-gram until they're sure I won't have any more accidents. I don't like that, but I don't want to hurt anybody, so I better do it.
Sahara and Simoun said it's really GREAT that my singing is so powerful but I think it's a PAIN. Humboldt said I should think about it like my magic is big and strong like a DRAGON. The dragons have to be careful they don't squish anybody or break anything, but it's not bad. It's just how they are. That made me feel a little bit better.
Hebichi and Spin and all my friends gave me a lot of hugs and said they don't think I did anything bad, but it's OK that I'm doing SPECIAL PRACTICE to make sure I don't have any accidents. Magic singing is something only a few people can do, so our SOCIETY isn't built for it. Maybe in the future when everybody learns magic, it won't be a problem because everybody can PROTECT themselves. It would be like how the dragons don't have to be careful when they're at Dragon Mountain, because everybody there is BIG and everything is made out of ROCKS.
I'm glad for all my family and my friends. I'm still KIND OF mad at Dragon-mom, though.
When I was at the race course with Hebichi and Max, Max tried to ride as FAST as Hebichi, and she ALMOST did, but then she messed up a jump and WIPED OUT. She got a big cut on her arm and there was blood EVERYWHERE, but she jumped up and licked her arm and got back on her bike and ALMOST caught up. Ultra-modern people don't know what it's like to get hurt, so everybody was really IMPRESSED that Max kept going even though her BLOOD was coming out. They said she's HARD CORE. That means doing what she means to do no matter WHAT, even if her blood is coming out. It also means tough in a really COOL way, so she was REALLY PROUD older kids thought she was cool. I wrapped up her arm in a BANDAGE and we kept riding and didn't worry about it any more, but then we went home and Number-dad saw the BIG bandage and squacked. Max patted his hand and said, "Daddy-mom, Max OK. Max HARD. CORE." and POSED. That made Number-dad laugh and laugh, but he checked Max's arm anyway. He said I did a good job of FIRST AID, and then I was proud too.
Today, Max got ungrounded from going places by herself, but if she isn't RESPONSIBLE, she can get grounded again. I think she'll make good decisions! She won't mess everything up like me.
When Rose-auncle and Race-teacher were purring Peanut Butter Dragon's leg, they started talking about going to Checkerboard Cats' continent. Pierce was helping with the purring, but then he ran away and came back dragging Nelson-captain. Now instead of flying in leaf-bubbles, Race-teacher and Elephant Cat and the explorers are going to sail on DAPPER CAPYBARA, because that's the direction that Nelson-captain wanted to explore already. I think that will make everybody's PARENTS happier about letting the Exploration Club go, because Nelson is a really GOOD captain.
I talked to Fairy-mom about how I wanted to go but I was afraid of something bad happening with the zoo. She said it's good to be responsible, but I don't have to feel responsible for EVERYTHING because I'm 10. She's probably right, but I know I would feel REALLY BAD if something happened. She said it's important for a BIG organization like a zoo to be OK even if 1 person is missing, because otherwise it can't LAST. She's probably right about that too. I tried to be SENSIBLE, but it was still really SCARY, because my zoo is IMPORTANT to me. She gave me a lot of hugs and said she KIND OF wants to go too. Maybe this can be our different family vacation this year. But I'm still worried.
Shoe-auncle used the big ultrasound sensor to check Peanut Butter Dragon's leg, and he could hardly see ANY cracks in the bone, so now Peanut Butter Dragon is allowed to start walking around. He has to rest if his leg gets sore, but he can go back home and just has to visit every week. Dragons aren't as good at healing as ultra-modern people, but that's still really FAST. I think it's because he got so many purrs from his CAT friends. We don't know FOR SURE until a dragon gets a broken leg and doesn't have any cat friends, but I hope that never happens.
LN's leg isn't doing so good. She tried to run and KICK with it, and hurt it worse so she has to keep the special boot on longer, and her doctor SCOLDED her. She's really sad because she likes soccer, but Jeanne and Dmitri are trying to get her to like SITTING DOWN games, like cards. I don't think it's WORKING, but she has people to sit with when everybody else is playing soccer and running around. Maybe they're doing TEENAGER KISSES. I'm glad LN doesn't have to be LONELY, though.
Some visitors said there were too many BUGS flying around our zoo. I didn't know what to do about that, since we already keep everything really CLEAN, so I asked Jones-teacher, that's the person in charge of INVERTEBRATES. She said we should try to attract BATS, so we put up BAT BOXES at the edge of the zoo. Those are like the rhamphys' boxes, but not as big. It worked really well! Some bats moved in right away, and they zoom around all night gobbling up bugs. Since they live in houses we made for them, they're BATTIES and we'll take care of them. I climbed up really CAREFUL to look at them while they were sleeping, and they're big round brown batties with big ears and big tummies and they're really CUTE. Welcome to my zoo, batties!
I did really good in school this week. Momo-teacher gave me a bunch of GOLD STARS for languages and math and science. Hebichi did pretty good too. The best was BINA, though. She's good at EVERYTHING. I need to make my brain MORE POWERFUL. Max said I should find people with powerful brains and EAT them, but that's because she watches too many ZOMBIE shows. She's a weird kitten.
I was sitting with Humboldt in the treehouse and we were talking about all the fun things to do in SUMMER, like swimming and camping and EXPLORING, and then our paws got TOO WIGGLY and we had to RUN. We ran down to the beach and waved to a lot of peple on the way, but then we kept running. Spin was there with Sonny, and Sonny started running with us so Spin had to come too. We ran all the way to the end of the beach and back onto the sidewalk and we kept running. We ran past the wind towers and kept running. We ran past the marina, where the little fun boats stay, and kept going until we found ANOTHER beach. Sonny ran right to a SANDWICH TRUCK and barked and barked so we had to stop. You're a good hunter, Sonny!
The boy at the sandwich truck said Spin's long rainbow hair was BEAUTIFUL. I don't know if it was a REAL flirt, because he's in Teenagers I, but Spin got really EMBARRASSED and hid behind Sonny. It was really cute. Your hair really is beautiful, Spin!
Humboldt and I got pearl tea and some Reuben sandwiches to share and we all fell over on the beach. Spin wanted to know why we were running, and Humboldt said it was so we could get a sandwich for Sonny, but I said that wasn't why, but Sonny understood. Spin thought about that and said he understood, and that made me really happy. I think the pastrami made Sonny HAPPIER, though!
We went back up the hill and rode a bus back home, because it was a long walk. I looked it up when we got home, and we run more than 6 KILOMETERS. I know people run more than that lots of times, but it's pretty far for a WIGGLY PAWS run!
We got a new friend in the zoo. I say they're a friend even though they're an animal, because they're in the Petting Zoo even though they're as big as ELEPHANT CAT. They're a GIANT hedgiehog! They have pointy SPIKES all over their back and sides and bum, so you better not mess with them! They don't like stabbing people, though. They like lying on their back to get TUMMY SUNSHINE and they like when tiny people and animals climb on their tummy to CUDDLE. Tater helped build a BRIDGE so people can get over the spikes and onto the HEDGIETUMMY and everybody thinks it's REALLY NICE. Zsuzsy was a little bit GROUCHY about having to carry big bags of SLUGBOX for the hedgiehog, but then she got to rest on the soft tummy with a sheepie and a bunch of bunnies and she was REALLY HAPPY.
Welcome to my zoo, giant hedgiehog! We're glad you're here!
I've been going to the docks to help the Exploration Club get VULTURE QUEEN JILL ready for sailing. They won't say, but I think they want to go to the Checkerboard Cat continent on their own if their parents say they can't go with Nelson. That would be really BRAVE, because VULTURE QUEEN JILL is a lot smaller ship, but they would get in a LOT of trouble. I don't know what happens if your ship sinks in the Dreamlands and you get eaten by sharks, but I bet it's REALLY BAD.
We checked Cryptotherium Valley, but it's still really STINKY and gross. There aren't as many vultures now, so maybe next week we can check the stone circle.
I saw a HUGE POO, so I think the cryptotheria are back. They're still invisible and sneaky, though.
This week instead of going to Choir class, I had to do REGULAR singing practice with VV-gram and Number-dad. We went to a WARDED room for doing magic stuff, and they sang the Let's Do All Do Magic Singing Song. It was REALLY HARD to not do magic singing with them! I could only do it by not singing AT ALL, and that won't help me in Choir. They said I was doing better after 3 practices and gave me lots of LOVE, but I still felt really BAD. Maybe I'm not a real songcat. Maybe my brain didn't get FIXED right when I was a baby.
Tiny Squeak is LEARNING a lot. She's a really smart kitten. She's really BELOVED, too. When we went to have dinner at Hebichi's house, Theo and Cleo and Mlle. Floofypaws all played with her really GENTLE, and when she got tired, they curled up with her and licked her nose so she purred. Toka's kitties are getting pretty BIG, because they're HOUSECATS and grow up fast, but Mlle. Squeaks is growning too. I wonder if she'll be the same size as VV-gram and 3 Orange Spots, or really BIG like Number-dad?
Mlle. Squeaks will be drinking MUM MILK for a long time still, because she's only 1/2 year old, but she sniffed her mum's pork stew a lot, so she got 1 spoonful of broth and she LIKED it. She slurped it right up and didn't barf or anything. Good job, Tiny Squeak!
I'm getting better at riding around the race course without wiping out. I thought about using the Get Over There Faster Song, but I'm not allowed to do magic singing, and that would be a CHEAT, and I'd probably wipe out REALLY BAD and DIE. That wouldn't be a good decision, Samuel!
Max is getting better too. She rode in a race in the YOUNGEST group, and got 3RD PLACE. Good job, Max! You're really BRAVE!
Bina started racing too, but she's not as good as Spin and Hebichi. She's really FIERCE, though, like Jean.
I think this was a pretty good week. I don't like being grounded from Choir and it's really FRUSTRATING that I can't stop magic singing, but nothing really bad happened, and the new hedgiehog is really GREAT.
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