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Ethel
Legacy Name: Ethel


The Sun Scootle
Owner: Trithie

Age: 14 years, 7 months, 3 weeks

Born: August 4th, 2009

Adopted: 6 years, 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Adopted: January 6th, 2018


Pet Spotlight Winner
March 29th, 2021

Statistics


  • Level: 72
     
  • Strength: 100
     
  • Defense: 100
     
  • Speed: 103
     
  • Health: 100
     
  • HP: 100/100
     
  • Intelligence: 65
     
  • Books Read: 46
  • Food Eaten: 0
  • Job: Unemployed


Ethel roamed the forest, although she did so very, very, very slowly. She loved to examine the different clumps of moss covering the ground. She would move from one, to another, to another, taking in the different shapes and textures and colours. It may not seem exciting, but it was the life that Ethel loved.

Until, one day, she heard a human trampling through the forest, and before she could move, she was almost crushed by a boot that landed right near her head.

The human it was attached to stopped suddenly, and exclaimed, “why, look at this scootle! What a beauty!”

And with that, a small, grubby hand reached down and grabbed her. She knew she was too slow to escape a human, so she resigned herself to the fact that she was now subject to the human’s whims.

Which, turned out, appeared to be to put her in a soggy, brown cardboard box. Thankfully it was full of the moss that she so loved. A few holes had been poked in the top of the box, and Ethel stared up at the sky, looking up at the forest she loved.

The box bumped and jostled her as the human began to run, and while she didn’t know where he was going, she didn’t think it was anywhere she wanted to be. Not that she had a choice. Finally, the human stopped, and the box was gently put on the ground. Ethel was grateful that the bumpy ride was over.

The box opened up, and the human’s face filled her field of view. She didn’t know much about humans, but she thought this one might be a child, and possibly a boy.

“Don’t worry, little scootle,” said the child. “You’re home with me now. I’ll take care of you. You have to stay in the box, though, or my mum will kill me.”

And so, Ethel spent her days slowly circling in her box. Luckily, the child remembered most days to bring her a new supply of moss, which she dutifully examined before eating. The child would often sit with her and talk, telling her wild stories about adventures he’d had in the forest. She grew to like the child, even though he was her captor.

Until, one day, the child’s mother found out about Ethel. Ethel heard the ruckus as the boy was yelled at and swatted. After it had quieted down, the boy came over and sat down beside her box, sniffling.

“Mum says I can’t keep you anymore and I have to take you back to the forest.”

Her box was lifted up, and once more she was bumped and bounced and jostled until the boy stopped and opened up the box. She made her way out onto the forest floor, but when she looked up to see the boy, she realized he was already gone.

And, with a sense of sadness at losing her friend, Ethel went back to her studies of the moss covering the forest floor.


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story: Trithie
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Pet Treasure


Spiffy Cardboard Box

Moss Covered Rock

Creeping Moss Spores

Moss

Krampus Mossy Spores

Grassland Warrior Bleak Bog Mud

Swamp Mud

Sacred Ground

Succulent Garden

Fir Cross Section

Goat Stump

Teak Cross Section

Birch Cross Section

Fairy Garden Pond

Fairy Garden Tree House

Partridge in a Pear Tree

Magical Lemon Tree

Magical Walnut Tree

Pointy Twig

Peculiar Green Leaf

Heart-Shaped Leaf

Dying Leaf

Willow Twig

Crunchy Leaf Litter

Wild Clover

Common Rue

Dancing Star Seeds

Galerina

Iridescent Orange Jewel Beetle

Wooly Caterpillar

Tiger Slug

Luna Moth

Monarch Butterfly

Painted Lady

Honeybee

Fox Moth

Cabbage White Butterfly

Hungry Fuzzy Caterpillars

Fire Ant

Shiny Green Snail

Hungry Striped Caterpillar

Hungry Spotted Caterpillar

Bright Snail Paperweight Beanbag

Green Jewel Snail

Common Garden Snail

Toadmus

Fluted Bird Nest Fungus Beanbag

Wire Crested Thorntail

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