
~::Story::~
After an exhausting hike through the thick woods, I decided to sit down and enjoy my lunch in the shade of a tree. The tall, majestic tree was very unusual: some of its branches were barren, some full of leaves, and others still were flowering! This was something so bizarre that I probably should have noticed, but, hey, if nature can give us wacky things like the platypus, who am I to judge a multi-seasonal tree?
I turned my attention away from my trusty lunch box to enjoy the beautiful sunset in the distance. When I looked back, my tasty sammich was naught but crumbs!
"SON OF A--!!!"
I reached for my thermos, to drown the sorrow of the loss of my sammich in a swig of freshly brewed loose-leaf tea, only to find that some punk critter was attempting to drag it away.
"THAT TEA COST ME LIKE $10 AT TEAVANA YOU PUNK!!"
I lurched after the lunch thief as fast as I physically could, which really isn't all that fast considering my plethora of leg problems (I probably shouldn't be hiking anyway). But since the thermos was like twice the size of that floofy thief, after a moment's struggle I had caught up to it. In a moment of ninja-like swiftness I pinned it under the very lunch box it had raided earlier.
"I've got you now you little--" I reached my hand under to overturned lunch box to pull out the evil bugger as fast as I could, only to find myself face-to-face with cuteness incarnate.

"OH MY GOD. What are you, a squirrel? You're the cutest little thing I've ever seen! Holy crap, I can't believe I wanted to murder you a second ago! You are so cute I'm going to name you--Wait, wha--ARGBLASGHANAGLACH--!!!"
The critter's friends must have seen me assault the little guy with my lunch box, since at this point they rained down on me from the freaky tree in a fit of adorable, unadulterated rage. Turns out a whole colony of the things live in that tree. It was all I could do to escape in one piece, although I think my dignity may have been shredded from such an adorable attack.
.....
Days later I returned, this time with a peace offering of grapes. The colony of adorable momongas accepted me as one of their own now that I had filled their bellies. And now I'm willing to let a few of you awesome people make friends with them.
~::The End::~

