snowpocalypse, continued
I saw one of them today. The Footprint Makers.
I've been seeing tracks for a week now. Any hopes that it is one freak individual is now *ssshhhhhhhhcracklekashhhhhhhhhhhhh* at least two different sizes, one vastly bigger than my own, one only slightly bigger. A male and a female? Or, more disturbing possibility, an unknown number of adults with approximately equal sized tracks, and smaller ones made by adolescents? The young children would probably cling to their mothers' backs, like most primates.
And they are primates. Bipedal great apes, *~krickleshrieeeeeeeeeeeeeeek^~* ourselves, covered in white hair. They're perfectly camoflauged against the permanent winter landscape -- probably why I hadn't seen one before. They're /hisssssssssss *pop* hissssssssssssss *pkow* ~fizzle~ species of /hisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss/.
I don't understand how they could be here. The snow has only been falling for forty days or so. A new species cannot have evolved in that time. Unless it was here all along, waiting. We had names for them. Bigfoot. Yeti. *zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzfizzlw weeeeeeeeoooooooo *pop* jokes, advertising mascots. Who could have guessed that they'd be months away from inheriting the earth? Guess the joke's on us.
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I've been seeing tracks for a week now. Any hopes that it is one freak individual is now *ssshhhhhhhhcracklekashhhhhhhhhhhhh* at least two different sizes, one vastly bigger than my own, one only slightly bigger. A male and a female? Or, more disturbing possibility, an unknown number of adults with approximately equal sized tracks, and smaller ones made by adolescents? The young children would probably cling to their mothers' backs, like most primates.
And they are primates. Bipedal great apes, *~krickleshrieeeeeeeeeeeeeeek^~* ourselves, covered in white hair. They're perfectly camoflauged against the permanent winter landscape -- probably why I hadn't seen one before. They're /hisssssssssss *pop* hissssssssssssss *pkow* ~fizzle~ species of /hisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss/.
I don't understand how they could be here. The snow has only been falling for forty days or so. A new species cannot have evolved in that time. Unless it was here all along, waiting. We had names for them. Bigfoot. Yeti. *zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzfizzlw weeeeeeeeoooooooo *pop* jokes, advertising mascots. Who could have guessed that they'd be months away from inheriting the earth? Guess the joke's on us.
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