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Ilha Formosa has a minion!

Coco the Nucifera

Ilha Formosa
Legacy Name: Ilha Formosa

The

Glade Xotl
Owner:

RNA

Age: 12 years, 3 months, 2 weeks

Born: January 8th, 2012

Adopted: 12 years, 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Adopted: January 8th, 2012

Statistics

Level: 11
Strength: 22
Defense: 14
Speed: 10
Health: 11
HP: 11/11
Intelligence: 17
Books Read: 11
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Groomer

This green island, is like a boat
meandering through the moonlight.

Darling, you are
floating in the ocean of my heart.

Let the melody of my song follow the breeze,
blowing through your curtains.

Let my love go with the flowing water,
serenading you.

The coconut tree's long shadow
cannot hide my gentle love.

The clear bright moonlight
brightens my heart.

This green island night
appears so peaceful.

Darling, why are you
still silent?--

She wondered what it would be like if she were a frog - not the kind that were sold at market, consigned to their grim fate, but a gem-green tree frog clambering from branch to branch, or a spotted brown thing crawling beneath dead leaves, or a fat toad crossing the street on a rainy night. The world would be bigger, more remarkable, and every dewdrop would be like a magnificent mirror and every lily pond a city of floating houses.

For as long as she could remember the island was her home. There had been people here as long as she remembered, but not like the ones who overtook it, built the cities...Sometimes she looked at her face in the mirror and wondered if they'd changed her - those people - made her forget. Her face and her eyes - was she really -

Mrs. _____ had said she found a little girl in the forest with no family, no allegiance. No guilt. "And of course it was my duty to raise you to be a pious daughter!" - stuff her into layers of fancy clothes and yank her hair into unnatural shapes, make her eat like a "civilized" lady.

Perhaps she'd been a frog once, or a lark, long before the first people came to her island. If she could become one again she'd be free.

No, she'd be caught, trampled under the a car, or accidentally drink from a poisoned stream. Mrs. _____ brought frogs home, sometimes, with expressionless eyes and cold, slippery bodies. She took out her knife and chopped the poor things to pieces. Her favorite part was the legs - cooked tender and succulent with a bit of green onion on top. Chen ate them anyways - there was more food now then there had ever been, it seemed.

On rare occasions Mr. Takehisa would come, and her heart would leap for joy. When he was around Chen felt she could do as she pleased, and Mrs. _____ could do nothing to stop her.

But she knew that in his eyes she was only a child. She'd lived longer than anyone else alive in this country (it came automatically sometimes, country) but she would never grow up. She knew that he liked her, but she would always be Mrs. _____'s estranged daughter. When it came time for him to leave she'd crawl under his coat and hold on with all her might but he'd be gone, and she'd be alone again. The airport was full of strangers.