“It’s the last place in the universe you can find them,” the guide said to the gathered crowd. “This once flourishing species inhabited the far stretches of what we have explored and now has been reduced to a small population in a habitat smaller than many nations.”
“What happened to them?” a serious looking fellow asked.
“It was us. We encroached on their territory and didn’t understand the important part they had to play in ecology.”
The crowd murmured and a woman spoke up. “Surely, that simply means they weren’t fit from an evolutionary perspective.”
Someone else piped up, “Oh please. They’re Krabbit’s creatures!”
“Yeah! Krabbit gave dominion to us.”
Things were getting out of hand. “Surely, Krabbit didn’t intend for us to destroy the creation she left us. Now, let’s continue our tour of the reserve.”
Grug saw the strange things from a distance. They were pale and somewhat greenish in color. He wasn’t entirely sure they were real. He SMSed a photo to his contact at The Chicago Tribune just in case.
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