ORIGIN

"The fruit kabob was an idea I had when I found a spiky wall that talked when you touch it. Kinda like when you touch a flower that's on fire except the wall doesn't destroy itself and there isn't any kitty to meet in the woods and its words act funny and are hard to understand." Bremen announced with a confident nod, making even less sense than usual.

To tell the truth he didn't really like touching the kabob too much, but he was smart enough to know that all gembounds were different from each other. Some were big, some were small, some liked to eat lesser gembound, and some mostly liked to munch on green stuff. Who was to say that there wasn't some lonely gembound out there that wanted to have a voice that they could hear any time they wanted and a snack to share with the voice?

Speaking of which, the new banana was done! With as much energy as he had for every other action the hybrid rushed over and grabbed the fruit, cradling it between a foreleg and his chest as he hobbled back to the display stand where he sat the glowing banana down. Using his beak to grab the kabob Bremen slung the old banana off, nearly in the dogbird's direction, and pierced the new fruit with the sickly green and black spike.

"Kinda loud, isn't it?" he commented as he placed the item back on its pedestal despite there having been no unusual noise during the exchange. "Oh, did you mean the tunnel that's near the swirly loud windy room? That's a good idea!"

Having an attention span to rival any others the hybrid looked toward the next display containing the skull. "That one I got from our Magus. He's disappeared now just like everyone else from the kingdom. He had a lot of corpses and corpse parts stacked up in big piles that he just left there before going away."

"You found a flower too?" Bremen asked in his usual tone. One would think after this long of high emotion he would settle down but every single small thing seemed to spark a new wave of energy in the thing. "Don’t worry, you didn't kill it. Mine died too but it was just hiding and came back to life later on. They are all tricky like that."

Of course he didn't know that his situation had been slightly different from his visitor's but even if he had known what else might he have done but to try to comfort what sounded like a sad conscience.

"The Marrowbound Kingdom, it was a group in Canis run by a cat-vulture which what pretty cool 'cause I’m a fox-dolphin-heron-cat-vulture. What are the odds that that, being such similar species to a king? My noodlekin is similar too! He's an anaconda-chicken-cat-vulture. All of them are gone now except me and maybe my noodlekin and also the Ingenii that I just found out is still alive and standing right behind you."

With that Bremen scrambled past the dogbird, managing not to impale him with his horn as he rushed by, and stopped right as he arrived near Felina. "Welcome! Welcome! I remember you, you liked to hang out in Canis with all the people playing pretend kingdom. I don’t have any maps to trade but that's a great idea! I've been allllll over the place and know lots of cool secret locations. Do you have a favorite type of place you want to make a den at?"

He had seen but one map in the cave system, once while he was in Pisces he ran across a stone where someone at some time had drawn a pretty picture that if you looked at it juuuust right told about all the different sections of the cave. Except Fornax- that one had been missing for some reason. Did they not know about Fornax at that time? Maybe it had been too big to try to draw. He didn't know but perhaps he could figure out some way to copy it onto something smaller and update it with new knowledge.