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[dissemblance]

Can we all take a moment to admire the fact that 2801 technology still supports emoji functionality? 🤩 👍 🕷 💁 🩰 💫 🍆 🧊 💅 👁‍🗨 🎯 🤡 🔋 🐈 💲 🧙‍♀️ 🐦💋 🐜 👽 🕶 ⚡ 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💦 💦 💦

It seems like they're pretty set on calling us 'Hatchlings', so... hello, fellow Hatchlings, I'd like to play a game.

Two truths and a lie. I'll start.

  ① Starbucks makes the best lattes.
  ② I've never watched All Dogs Go To Heaven all the way through.
  ③ My birthdate is May 21st. What year? Every year. 😉😉😉 But my party in 2018 was 🔥🔥🔥.

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[dissemblance]

Have you ever tried getting between a girl and her Starbucks? You'd be surprised.

I'm going to go with 3 for you. That's way too out there. And I woke up in an egg a week ago.

（ she assumes it's the truth, actually — which means she's keenly interested in hearing more. ）

[cryptoherpetology]

Nope, met eyes with a cockatrice that someone put in my backyard hoping to kill me.

My sister is a dancer, if you're curious about which one was the lie.

[dissemblance]

I think I speak for all of us when I say 'what's a cockatrice'? 😋

Of all the lies you could have told about your sibling, I feel like that one has to be the most benign. Family guy, huh?

[cryptoherpetology]

That, and both of my sisters are entirely capable of handing my ass to me. They may not be here, but I'm still not taking risks in that department.

A cockatrice is kind of a large feathered lizard-chicken. Technically a saurian that survived the mass extinction of the dinosaurs in some small numbers, probably due to the fact that it can turn its prey at least partially to stone to subdue it.

[ This might be why the rats didn't freak him out so much. Or that they're living in a protective rockface made of a dragon corpse. ]

[dissemblance]

Ah, wise. If she ever shows up in one of the eggs, my lips are sealed.

That sounds... exotic.

And this is all on Earth? It sounds like Earth.

（ she's adjusting her presented personality on the fly to dig at information she finds the most interesting. old habits, and all. turns out they die a lot harder than everything else. ）

[cryptoherpetology]

I'm from one of the Earths, yes. It sounds like there are a few of us from variations of it.

I'm a cryptozoologist, so most everything I deal with is fairly exotic.

[dissemblance]

Asimov, eat your heart out...

You recognize anything here? I'm still pretty wound up from tentacle rats, personally.

[cryptoherpetology]

Nothing yet, but evolution likes to repeat itself often enough that you never really know.

Sadly I didn't get the chance for a field dissection of the rats. For as much as they definitely wanted to rend flesh from all our bones, they were biologically fascinating.

[dissemblance]

Nothing stopping you from going back for seconds. I'm sure there's people here who'd do it for science if you asked around?

[cryptoherpetology]

As much as running back into the den of a deadly predator is something that's more or less encoded in my DNA, I'd like to get a slightly better grasp of the area before going back to get a better look.

But I'm not saying I don't want to eventually.

[ Or that he's not jumping in with the first group of reckless young people to trek out there. Damn sense of responsibility. ]