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Hello, happy crab!













And one sad little dinosaur from a couple weeks back:


He had a little story to go with him, if you were interested.

"Sudden Career Change"
By proclamation of the Elders, the time came in every young dinosaur's life to make a career choice. Builder, Eater, Farmer, Harvester, Sleeper, Pooper (hey, the farmers needed fertilizer) - the jobs were fairly more diverse than today's creatures give the dinosaurs credit for.

Well, Little Ruggles, a small Stegosaurus, made an even more diverse decision. You see, he had a sort of knack for knowing what was going to happen. One day he tripped and the loose gravel beneath him spread out into a pattern that resembled an Apatasaurus being squished by a tree. And, sure enough, that week, Great Hurk the Apatasaurus was felled by a tree in a lightning storm.

A month later, Ruggles looked up at the night sky and saw some stars that formed the exact shape of a tar pit with a head sticking out of it. The next day, they lost Mentar the Iguanodon in a formerly-undiscovered tar trap.

Little Ruggles saw fire in his breakfast leaves, rock-slides in the bathing pool, and a particularly nasty dust storm in a pile of Tyrannosaur leavings.

Little Ruggles was incredibly proud of his talent.

Soon all of the dinosaurs were insisting that Little Ruggles tell their futures for them, one by one. Ruggles would warn of roving predator bands, bad water, storms, and danger to nests. He became quite popular. He was the first dinosaur Seer.

Eventually the Elders approached Ruggles as a group, carrying the thigh-bone of a long-deceased ancestor. They handed it to him, and asked him to read the future in the bone.

"The future of whom?" asked the small Stegosaurus.

"The future of all dinokind," the eldest Elder said.

Smiling inwardly at how amazing he was, how even the most respected of all dinosaurs would come to him for advice, Little Ruggles held the bone close. "Huh, to think, I could have been a lowly Pooper or Harvester."

Ruggles eyed the bone in his forepaws and concentrated. He tilted it this way and that, staring at the lines and cracks that time had worn into the old bone. He hummed and swayed slowly.

Finally, Little Ruggles squinted. Cocking his head to one side, he squinted harder. He caught a glimpse of the future of the dinosaurs.

With eyes wide in terror, the small Stegosaurus handed the bone back to the Elders, and promptly became a Pooper.

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