They figured out the answer quickly as to where all the animals were. A million different eyes turned to stare at the company in unison: rodents, dogs, antelopes, parrots and more peering at them, slightly wild. Pill bugs, spiders, and millipedes crawled all over the man's body. Plants and fungi grew from his clothes and hair. He wore a similar straw hat to the one Jasper wore, Aldor watched Jasper quickly smuggle it off out of the corner of his eye.
A fat tabby cat and a bear snuggled by the man's feet. The bear sat up at their entrance and began to wiggle its butt as though it had a long tail.
“It looks as though our friends arrived sooner than expected, Hudson and Rusty.” The man's voice was ancient, earthen, his face—as though clutching onto the experience of centuries—still flickere
