In an encyclopeda, the axolotl is defined as a Mexican neotenic mole salamanders belonging to the Tiger Salamander complex. In practice, it is something like a cross between Kirby and a Wooper
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Neil is sitting on the edge of the bunker roof, leaning back on his hands, looking up at the battered hulk of Dynames that only looks more damaged in the moonlight.
There's a bucket beside him, and inside the bucket is Steve, possibly sleeping or possibly just thinking whatever thoughts you think when you're a newt.
Neil has some idea how he's come to this point in his life, but he's still not quite reconciled to it.
He's not a newt, he's a salamander. And he's not quite asleep - not in the human way of sleeping where you're conked right out - but he is on the prey edge of it, where one eye rests and the other looks out for things with nasty big pointy teeth.
Steve's gills drift gently on the surface of the water, moving like stumpy red seaweed.
His tail twitches sideways as Neil peeks into the bucket - but if there's one thing the man isn't, it's a nasty big predator with a taste for amphibious life, so after the initial movement Steve keeps on dozing away.
Neil is sitting on the edge of the bunker roof, leaning back on his hands, looking up at the battered hulk of Dynames that only looks more damaged in the moonlight.
There's a bucket beside him, and inside the bucket is Steve, possibly sleeping or possibly just thinking whatever thoughts you think when you're a newt.
Neil has some idea how he's come to this point in his life, but he's still not quite reconciled to it.
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Well, Steve can whumph and blow bubbles. That's communicative... kinda.
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"So how's my brother the wonder shrimp?"
Apparently Val deals with bizarre shit happening to her family by means of... increasingly inaccurate descriptions!
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"Asleep. I think."
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His tail twitches sideways as Neil peeks into the bucket - but if there's one thing the man isn't, it's a nasty big predator with a taste for amphibious life, so after the initial movement Steve keeps on dozing away.
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Will Neil mind if she hops up to sit on the other side of the bucket? If so, too bad. She does.
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He glances from Val to the bucket and back, but doesn't contribute anything further to the conversation.
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Val sighs.
"Okay. So how the fuck do we un-newt him?"
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Steve (especially when asleep) has no helpful suggestions!
Other than whumph and bubbles, but he's already volunteered those.
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wait shit
should she not have said that
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I mean
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Neil leans over a little and peers into the bucket.
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