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" I wanted to see the camels" Sandy grumbled and kicked at the odd pebble and piece of trash on the walkways. "They even have a camel ride, it says so in the flyer." The child really wanted to know what it felt like to ride a camel, was it much different than the pony he'd ridden at the carnival the one time?

Tybalt sighed and ran a hand through his long red hair as he dragged the spawn behind him. " I told you, we are going to see them, but we're going to go in order of the sections and the arctic and antarctic stuff is near the beginning so it's easy to follow the patten then just run to what you want to see and have to double back." Sure that's how he'd done it as a kid was an adult now and saw the practicality of following the zoo layout. Plus it'd give him a chance to show Sandy things the child might otherwise pass by in a rush to get somewhere else.


Eventually they reached an area where penguins alternated between basking on rocks and slipping into the water built into their enclosure. Sandy ran forward and got as close as safety rails allowed, thoughts of camels temporarily banished from their mind. " They swim even faster in real life," the tawny haired child gushed in awe, even with Delta and Epsilon helping Sandy wasn't that fast. Alpha and Omega were kinda useless in the water usually just themselves in sand's hair or behind the spawn's ears. Still, Sandy had a special love for each of the four golden tentacles.

Sandy's head snapped left upon being addressed and the spawn smiled in response to the compliment. All four of their tentacles waved merrily or at the least pointed their tips in the direction of other tentacled child, clearly interested in him. " Hi, yeah we're here to look at all the animals," Sandy replied with a nod " and even ride some of them." Because actually getting to touch the animals was way better than just looking at them as far as Sandy was concerned.

"You have interesting colourings too" Tybalt pointed out and gestured to the purple steaks in the child's dark hair "Are they natural?" He'd never heard of kids that young dying their hair but who knew, it could happen. All the while the man kept his grey eyes on the lookout for the guardians of the boy. The last thing Tybalt wanted after the mcdonalds kidnapping fiasco was someone to think he was stealing their kid. The young man was more than happy to talk to him but he tried not to get too close unless things look awkward.

Sandy had never met anyone quite as bouncy and chatty ad Puck In his life, still the shaggy haired spawn was quite interested in the other child. For all his energy Puck seemed really nice, not aggressive or bossy or anything that Sandy didn't like in people." Do people tease you becuase of your name?" They inquired curiously. "I get teased for being Sandy." Sandy didn't really understand why it was that sometimes other kids thought it was funny to push them into the sandbox or sprinkle sand on them simply becuase their name was Sandy Pucks seemed a lot more painful to have dropped on you or thrown at you by bullies.

Just thinking about the times when they got pushed around was enough to make Delta curl and uncurl angrily like someone clenching a fist. The tentacle was the most forward and reactionary, usually the one to strike back first at any bullies it could reach.


" Please to meet you too," Tybalt replied laughing a little at the child;s antics even if part of him sighed inwardly at Sandy's omission. There was nothing he could do to protect the kid from the idiocies of young children being well young children. " I'm Tybalt, can I ask you if you remember where you were when you were very small?" It was something of a longshot but Tybalt wondered if this other tentacled kid came from the same place Sandy had. They bore a small bit of resemblance to each other but not enough to be really sure.

"Thanks" Sandy grinned at the compliment, pleased that Puck thought their name was nice. The fact that it looked like Puck was maybe like them, but with different sorts of tentacles made the child even happier. Epsilon agreed and reached out in an attempt to snag the the metal coated limb that was hiding behind the dark haired boy's back. They were all nice here, no need to worry.

The redhead nodded " Sandy came from one two when they were very small," he replied calmly. He still couldn't be sure they were from the same place but the possibility was higher now. Tybalt resist rolling his eyes at the impulsive nature of Epsilon, he was long since used to it by now. Assuming Puck didn't react too badly to the sudden touching Tybalt figured he could ask the child to accompany them until he bumped into someone in his family again.

Sandy grinned at Puck's enthusiasm at maybe them both being from the facility. The spawn did look a little apologetic after a minute though and nodded to Niicht "I used to hide too," they admitted. Sometimes being ignored was just part of the humility blooded child's nature, other times they fervently wished for people to pass them by and so it happened. However Epsilon had been so excited Sandy hadn't even had a chance to stop them from reaching out in friendship.

Back in the exhibit one of the penguins let out a loud honking noise as it flapped it's flippers furiously. What it wanted was unknown but the noise was certainly unexpected.