"Hey!" He barely notices what she's saying, too busy running over to pull the stupid thing from their food stores. It was slippery and wriggled out of his grasp more than once before he got his arms good and tight around it.
It's the mother thing that does it, he remembers. The stupid, wriggly penguin in his arms aside, it's that it doesn't have a mother and needs a home, it's that need to give everything motherless a home and he...
He sighs and looks at his sister. "...I gue-- OW!"
And then the penguin bit him and he struggled not to throw it across the tent.
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Date: 2006-05-22 03:30 am (UTC)It's the mother thing that does it, he remembers. The stupid, wriggly penguin in his arms aside, it's that it doesn't have a mother and needs a home, it's that need to give everything motherless a home and he...
He sighs and looks at his sister. "...I gue-- OW!"
And then the penguin bit him and he struggled not to throw it across the tent.