Where did everyone go?
You decide to head for the huts. Perhaps you can get some idea of what this place is!
As you walk there, you find yourself grateful for this crazy, stretchy body. If (as in one occasion), a log blocks your path that's wider than you're tall, you can just extend your legs and step over it. You also catch yourself a meal by using a rubbery arm to snatch a fowl from a long distance away and stuff it into your mouth.
Once you finally reach the clearing, you find that the village you saw is...
...there's no one there.
You search each and every one of the huts. Not only is there no one there, but not one of the huts is furnished.
Weird!
You notice that the sun is beginning to set. You decide to spend the night in one of the huts.
However, sleeping on the floor looks somewhat uncomfortable. But on seeing a crossbeam above you, you get an idea.
You extend your arms and then loop them around the beam until they are tied tightly to each other and to the beam. Then you reach your legs up and do the same with them. Finally, you extend your tail around your body, thread it over your right arm, under your head, and over your left arm, before extending it further until you make it knot itself to your left leg. Just like that, you've become your own hammock!
It actually feels pretty relaxing being suspended like this, and soon, you fall asleep.
Written by on 15 September 2014
The end (for now)