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" Zarukah will you please stop that" Chevy ground out through gritted teeth as he watched his son tried to yank a fistful of mane from the unfortunate pony that he was riding. The blond was sort of glad he'd tried the blue skinned boy out on one of the older docile ponies the zoo had instead of a camel or elephant, both of which were far less likely to tolerate the toddlers grabbyness.

With a sigh he plucked the boy off the animal in question, and set him on the ground, turning briefly to shoot Demi an apologetic look. The woman who ran this small section of the zoo had been kind enough to let him as a fellow worker cut the line and place Zarukah on one of the ponies, it was the least he could do to apologize for his kid's less than kind treatment of the animal.

Turning his back on the small troll child was not a bright idea because the moment his feet hit the ground Zarukah was off like a shot to find something more interesting.

Zarukah was more than a little awed by the tall black.. something walking by " What's stampede?" he asked curiously craning his neck to try and see all of the other male and the something on top of him as well. Strangers and respecting other's privacy were still not concepts he understood.

The troll boy's long pointed ears twitched as if trying to figure out where both voices were coming from, you only got one voice. " Mom? What's dat?" Zarukah flicked his tongue out to lick a tusk as he awaited an answer.

Not that far off Chevy shouted the boy's name as he began looking around frantically for him, less concerned about Zarukah than the general public though he was worried for his son as well. This was the last time he took his eyes off him ever again.

Zarukah clearly didn't have a mom because no one where he lived smelled good and made cookies. His amber eyes flashed with something, disappointment perhaps and then fear as a shadow fell over him and he was suddenly lifted into the air " Nooooooo" he whined recognizing the strong grip of Chevy. Although a small part of the boy was pleased to be f closer to the strange hat wearing girl now.

Chevy sighed and gave yet another apologetic look to the pair whom Zarukah had been pestering " Thanks for keeping him distracted." The green eyed man hated to think what would have happened if Zarukah had kept on the move.

Chevy nodded " I work here, I can show you there if you want." Not that is was all that hard to find, there were plenty of signs about on poles depicting which animals were where.


Zarukah struggled in Chevy's arms, the boy hated being restrained and more often than not that meant being held like now. At the dark skinned girl's words he poked at a tusk with a tree fingered hand, it seemed fine to him, just like Ubara's. " Dey good for bitin" He exclaimed, much better than teeth that would go up would be. Though if he was big like Chris the troll child might not have to bite anyone.. course he liked to bite people so that wouldn't be fun either.

Zarukah laughed and shook his head, cake who wanted that? All sugary and sweet and gross. "Bitin people" Not that the blue skinned boy was advantage to chomping down on food or toys hard so that his tusks pierced them but biting people was the most fun, they tasted better.

The dirty blond sighed at Zarukah's words but nodded to Chris and took a few steps in the direction he'd come from " I imagine a pony feels different than a person. To be honest the man couldn't remember the last time he'd rose horseback or piggyback.

" You might want to take her for an elephant ride an about a half hour if you're still here, it's something you'd probably both enjoy." It was possibly also the only animal the boy might be allowed to ride himself. Chevy might word with the birds of prey but he was pretty aware of the general size and weight limits for the animals at the zoo which could be ridden.

Zarukah stuck his tongue out at the girl, she did indeed smell like that yuck sweet dark stuff Chevy tried to feed him sometimes. Didn't mean she had to taste like it though and Zarukah was determined to find out. the long eared boy reached for the closest part of the dark skinned girl, her red ribbon tail.

" Weird, but interesting" Chevy himself intended to see how the animals reacted to Zarukah, if he could ever trust the boy enough to take him anywhere nears the enclosures.