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taxonomites2010-10-04 08:55 pm
biverbam.livejournal.com) wrote in taxonomites2010-10-04 08:55 pm
操作: [ location: Taxon Zoo ]
Most animals, it turns out, are simple for all the complexities of a multitiered food chain (and the occasional group with fully formed temporal lobes). Many souls that see a great fake sky and don't know any better but to remember what they are. The simplicity of productive thought, a routine unvaried and safely housed, is refreshing when saddled between the choices of 'too much' and 'not enough.'
Eat, sleep, and eat.
That's more than can be said for the Extras who, for reasons only Hamsters might possibly understand, accepted her application for employment and gave her an officious khaki vest with her schedule folded neatly in the right pocket. It's almost as if they're conspiring to remind her of Simon, and she alternates between hating it completely and wearing it with wrinkled pride.
The work relationship itself is mutually beneficial: River gets to come in for free and has access to all the zoo's more entertaining hidden areas, and the zoo gets...
Well, in theory they get a nice young woman who stands at a kiosk and admits people to the butterfly room.
In reality, they get a nice young woman standing happily on one leg in the middle of the flock of flamingos as she bends down at the waist and, apparently, engages one of them in a staring contest.
"You're extinct," she informs it gently. The flamingo squawks at her but doesn't otherwise seem to care.
Hopefully no one is desperate to see the butterflies today.
Eat, sleep, and eat.
That's more than can be said for the Extras who, for reasons only Hamsters might possibly understand, accepted her application for employment and gave her an officious khaki vest with her schedule folded neatly in the right pocket. It's almost as if they're conspiring to remind her of Simon, and she alternates between hating it completely and wearing it with wrinkled pride.
The work relationship itself is mutually beneficial: River gets to come in for free and has access to all the zoo's more entertaining hidden areas, and the zoo gets...
Well, in theory they get a nice young woman who stands at a kiosk and admits people to the butterfly room.
In reality, they get a nice young woman standing happily on one leg in the middle of the flock of flamingos as she bends down at the waist and, apparently, engages one of them in a staring contest.
"You're extinct," she informs it gently. The flamingo squawks at her but doesn't otherwise seem to care.
Hopefully no one is desperate to see the butterflies today.