Reply To: The Land Before Time XXI: Hunter Valley
CHAPTER TWO: LEAFIE IN HUNTER VALLEY
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Leafie, meanwhile, was hiding in one of the “Stinky Places”, as her friends called it, in Hunter Valley. Why she had to hide here, she was never told. She only was told that her very life depended on it. She was awfully bored. And the place didn’t smell that great either. It had been, though she wasn’t told, to mask her smell from the Sharpteeth.
Her friends had sure kept her hiding a lot. True, she had been let out at night to go eat and explore parts of Hunter Valley. She had even played rock toss with her friends, using her tail to bop rocks. She also enjoyed relaxing in mud baths. However, they never let her do this during the day. She had to stay in here all day. Normally she slept all day, as she had nothing to do anyway.
She woke up as she felt the wind hit her. She wondered if it was her friends coming to get her, but found that it wasn’t. The leaves were blowing in the wind. Some went to her and she ate them. She saw that it wasn’t night at all, but late afternoon. Her friends would get her after dark, so there was little point in going back to bed. Anyway, it would be hard to sleep with leaves hitting her from being blown by the wind. At least she got something to eat. Normally, she had to wait till night to eat.
She wondered why she always had to stay in here. Her friends got to go out all day. Why couldn’t she?
“What could be out there?
Why am I not allowed to go anywhere?” she sang.
She noticed Dakotaraptors and Utahraptors in the distance. She stared at them. “What danger could they be?
Why is it all such a mystery?” she sang.
“Oh hiding all the time is such a pain!
If I keep having to do this much longer, I know I’ll go insane!” she sang in an annoyed tone.
“What could be out there?
Why am I not allowed to go anywhere?
There is so much in the world to see.
Why is it all kept from me?” she sang.
“Oh why in all these cold times, cannot I find
any other member of my kind?
I am never allowed to go explore.
My life is a total bore.
I don’t know if I can take much more.” she sang.
“What could be out there?
Why am I not allowed to go anywhere?
Could today be the day
that my limitations would go away?” she sang, finishing her song.
She, out of frustration, moved out of her hiding spot. It couldn’t hurt to explore out there for just part of one day, could it?
“It doesn’t seem so bad out here. I mean, it’s not like it’s going to kill me, now is it?” laughed Leafie.
