“I invoke the protections of the Three-Year Bonded Presumption Law,” the little Egret demanded.
It was only from long practice that Edmund was able to keep a straight face but Etta was very earnest in her plea and her partner, Gobie, was flopping in the swamp slime at their respective feet – the Egret’s yellow-toed claws and his own boots – seemed quite serious, unless her gasping was because she was suffocating out of water, a possibility as Gobie was, in fact, a fish.
“Please, your majesty,” Gobie the Mudskipper pleaded and gurgled, “I just want to be with Etta and not worry about being eaten by the other swamp Birds.”
A bird and a fish sitting in something other than a tree, K I S S I N G
It was only from long practice that Edmund was able to keep a straight face but Etta was very earnest in her plea and her partner, Gobie, was flopping in the swamp slime at their respective feet – the Egret’s yellow-toed claws and his own boots – seemed quite serious, unless her gasping was because she was suffocating out of water, a possibility as Gobie was, in fact, a fish.
“Please, your majesty,” Gobie the Mudskipper pleaded and gurgled, “I just want to be with Etta and not worry about being eaten by the other swamp Birds.”