Reply To: The Land Before Time XVI: The Lonely Longneck
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE SEARCH PARTY
The next morning, Grandpa and Grandma Longneck came and said to Dayo “What do your parents look like?”
“Dad’s green and Mother’s light brown. Dad’s got blue eyes and Mom’s got green eyes.” replied Dayo.
“What are their names?” asked Grandma Longneck.
“Marrian and Dusty.” replied Dayo. She looked really down again upon hearing her parents mentioned. Grandpa and Grandma Longneck left. They came to Bron.
“We are going to search for her parents.” said Grandpa Longneck.
“Do we know where they might be?” asked Bron.
“No, but we need to find them for her.” said Grandma Longneck.
“We will send out a search party. She mentioned a desert. Perhaps it is the desert between here and the Land of Mists.” said Grandpa Longneck.
Some hours later, Ducky came to Dayo. “You look down. They are looking for your parents. They are. They are.” said Ducky.
Dayo said nothing. Ducky began to sing a song to try to cheer her up. “Sometimes you feel down. All you want to do is frown. Everything seems to be going bad. And it makes you really sad.” sang Ducky in a soft and sweet tone. Dayo stared at her.
“You feel really blue. And you wonder if you are ever again going to be you.” Ducky continued to sing. Dayo nodded.
“Oh, I just don’t know what to do. You don’t know what I’ve been through. I am in such pain. I have trouble not going insane.” sang Dayo. She had a sweet voice and a beautiful one. One could tell that there was pain in her from her voice. Ducky shed a few tears, as she could feel it too. Dayo was touched that Ducky was trying to cheer her up. She didn’t think any non-Longnecks would care.
Meanwhile, in the Mysterious Beyond, the search party called for her parents. “Dusty!” “Marrian!” they called. They hoped they could find them. They met several Longnecks and asked them if Dayo was their daughter. However, they all said that she wasn’t.
“Sometimes things seem to be out of hand. And you feel that nobody can understand.” Ducky, meanwhile, continued to sing.
“I just wish that things had gone another way.
I find it hard to get through every day.” sang Dayo.
“Sometimes things just are not right.
Hang on because at the end of the tunnel is the light.” sang Ducky.
“Just surviving each day is a fight.
It just seems to be one long unending night.” sang Dayo.
“Oh you seem to have a lot of pain inside.
But please cheer up, despite the how big the valley you are in now seems there is another side.” sang Ducky.
Meanwhile, in the Mysterious Beyond, the adults continued calling for Dayo’s parents. They had now spent hours looking.
Dayo teetered uneasily, as though she were deciding on whether to bring up something she was reluctant to talk about. Ducky stared at her.
“Oh, it simply must be said.
The truth is that my parents are dead.” sang Dayo, pain in her voice.
Ducky gasped!
