Quest 247

[primrosella]

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[fatespoken]

You know what that creature's called?

[primrosella]

It's some sort of bear, isn't it?

[fatespoken]

Shouldn't you have researched before using it?

[primrosella]

It was a gift from a friend, Amory. And I thought it was cute. Why, is there something wrong with it?

[fatespoken]

Nothing's wrong, I was just curious.

They're called the Giant Panda. Native to China - where my mom's family used to live.

[primrosella]

Really? They don't look very giant--though I suppose that's only to be expected, if it's only a baby. Or do you mean that they're pandas that giants keep around? I suppose it could go either way, really.

Have you ever seen one yourself, other than in a picture?

[fatespoken]

Relative to other species of pandas, they're giants. And I doubt a giant could own one, anyway.

I have.

[primrosella]

They're actually not so bad, giants. Well, as monsters go, anyway. They're really more dimwitted than anything else, though you do run into an evil one every once in a while. Every bushel has a few bad apples, and so on.

Really! That must've been simply marvelous.

also sorry for the late late late tag on the log ;;

[fatespoken]

I wouldn't know.

Haven't you been to the zoo here?

not a problem bb!

[primrosella]

Oh! Did you mean in a zoo? I thought you meant you'd seen one just wandering around, while visiting your mother's family or something like that. After all, it's one thing to see an animal in a zoo like the one here, but quite another to see it in the wild.

[fatespoken]

There hasn't been any visiting, they're all dead.

But it'd be hard find one wandering around, since they're a threatened species.

[primrosella]

Oh, I...I'm so very sorry to hear that, Amory.

There's something threatening them?

[fatespoken]

I never knew them, Rosella. It doesn't matter.

Poachers? Low breeding rates?

[primrosella]

Even so, it's unfortunate, and I'm sorry to hear it.

You mean people hunt them? Are they particularly vicious, then?