Backyard of Pools and Rabbits
On the back porch in someone's backyard. It seems tropical with lots of plants. I see a rabbit in the shrubs. I approach the rabbit trying to spook it. Instead of being scared it comes out of the shrubs and approaches me. I notice that it is very thin apparently starved. Starved and disheveled. It's fur is unkempt and its too front buck teeth are uneven. On reflection it is about four times bigger than a normal rabbit. I reach out to it, again seeking to scare it away. It reaches for my hand attempting to suckle on my finger. Now I am the scared one. I try to kick it away but the first attempt is unsuccessful. The rabbit is just too large. I retreat to the house. The rabbit is following perhaps convinced that I will feed it. Kicking it back I just manage to close the clear sliding glass window before it can enter.
This is not my house, I am just a guest. Inspecting my room I find my belongings all set up and in order. There is a threat of disorder when grandma finally comes to the house. That she will appropriate my room for some other use seems guaranteed. I will tackle that problem when it arises. For now I must deal with the bunnies. I go back to the living room to observe any bunnies and the backyard through the sliding glass door.
The backyard is a series of dropping levels starting at the house. It has thick vegetation but is dominated by pools with multiple waterfalls flowing down the multiple levels. The pools and vegetation are surrounded by grey flat rock. The highest level is closest to the house so all the water flows away over each individual pool's rock edge. The vertical sides of the pools reveal multiple layers of rock slabs stacked upon one another.
My little sister is in this backyard, but I manage to get her inside before she has a confrontation with a rabbit. Once I get her inside I begin to explain the attributes and behaviors of the rabbits that seem to be around this house. I notice a rabbit now in the backyard and focus on it. Their is something wrong. The rabbit's ears are on the wrong end of it's body. The rabbit is looking at me with clearly visible eye's but it's ears are on the wrong end. I don't seem to be able to detect a mouth though. I point this out to my sister so that she will be able to help me solve this mystery. The strange creature stops staring at me and moves revealing a normal rabbit head on the other end of it's body. The ear's are on the right end, but for some reason these rabbits have an extra pair of eyes on their backside. Now seeing several of them I am able to deduce that it is not just a one time aberration but the norm for rabbits around this house.
I go outside to try to fight off these horrors. My sister, without my consent, joins me. My plan is simple. The rabbits aggressively want to get closer to people, but from before I don't remember any actually trying to hurt me. Possibly they just want food and are convinced we can give it to them. With this in mind I will just kick the pests down to the next level of pools and vegetation. Hopefully they will fall down to a level from which they will not be able to climb back up to the house. Fortunately I am battling no more than one or two rabbits at a time, but now that I am out there they will definitely all be drawn towards me. As I am battling I notice that their rear end, the end that should just have fur but instead has an extra pair of eyes, also has a small pair of rounded ears on top of it. As I notice this another detail is revealed. Underneath their normal rabbit face, on their neck, is a prehensile tail. It was concealed just being curled underneath their head before. They begin to use this prehensile tail to try to wrap and entangle my arms. Frightened by this new development I retreat with my sister to the interior of the house.
We need blades to strike off the prehensile tails of these half rabbit half monkey abominations. I tell her I will go and find one, with the image of my leather man firmly seated in my mind. As I approach my room I realize what a small and futile weapon my leather man will make. I resolve to get my swords. The longest and the shortest one. Despite them being unsharpened I am convinced they will make short work of the entangling tails.
I enter my room and infuriatingly find all my stuff gone and replaced by Christmas ornamentation. How did my grandma have the gall to move all my stuff without consulting me. Now I am angry and panicked for time. Jogging through the house purposefully I open several doors, feeling that my time is about to run out. I need to find the room where my stuff was moved to. My short jaunt for a weapon has now turned into a quest that is taking too long. Panicked that I will return too late I abandon the search and resolve to use one of the small blades by the sliding glass door, main exit to the backyard. Three assorted blades are on the ground, side by side. I pick up the biggest, but it is still too small to fight with. I need something to lop with. I would have to be very lucky to cut off a monkey tail with so small a blade.
Hearing my lamentations the owner of the house approaches me asking why the blade in my hand is inappropriate. I describe the infestation his backyard has that I am trying to fight off. Disturbed he goes out into the backyard to investigate. Fortunately there are no monkey-rabbits nearby at this time. While investigating his backyard we find the edge of the property and a large root of several meters diameter going skyward.
The property we are on is a an island floating in the sky. At the lowest level of pools and vegetation in the backyard a giant root from the island gnarls away into the sky. It was not visible where the root ended, but it was obvious it reached towards another sky island. This is how our island remained in the sky. It was suspended from another island by means of the gigantic root. The owner explained that the monkey-rabbits were most likely coming from along the root to reach his house, but we could not cut the root for the whole house would drop from the sky.
An old strange man traveled down the root to where we stood observing the root. The owner related our problem and asked if it would be safe to cut the root now that times have changed. Theoretically with the present shift in the world all the islands should be able to hang suspended by themselves. Since nobody had yet tested it though it was a dangerous proposition. After the owner explained all this, the old man craned his neck looking into the owner's eyes and cackled.
This is not my house, I am just a guest. Inspecting my room I find my belongings all set up and in order. There is a threat of disorder when grandma finally comes to the house. That she will appropriate my room for some other use seems guaranteed. I will tackle that problem when it arises. For now I must deal with the bunnies. I go back to the living room to observe any bunnies and the backyard through the sliding glass door.
The backyard is a series of dropping levels starting at the house. It has thick vegetation but is dominated by pools with multiple waterfalls flowing down the multiple levels. The pools and vegetation are surrounded by grey flat rock. The highest level is closest to the house so all the water flows away over each individual pool's rock edge. The vertical sides of the pools reveal multiple layers of rock slabs stacked upon one another.
My little sister is in this backyard, but I manage to get her inside before she has a confrontation with a rabbit. Once I get her inside I begin to explain the attributes and behaviors of the rabbits that seem to be around this house. I notice a rabbit now in the backyard and focus on it. Their is something wrong. The rabbit's ears are on the wrong end of it's body. The rabbit is looking at me with clearly visible eye's but it's ears are on the wrong end. I don't seem to be able to detect a mouth though. I point this out to my sister so that she will be able to help me solve this mystery. The strange creature stops staring at me and moves revealing a normal rabbit head on the other end of it's body. The ear's are on the right end, but for some reason these rabbits have an extra pair of eyes on their backside. Now seeing several of them I am able to deduce that it is not just a one time aberration but the norm for rabbits around this house.
I go outside to try to fight off these horrors. My sister, without my consent, joins me. My plan is simple. The rabbits aggressively want to get closer to people, but from before I don't remember any actually trying to hurt me. Possibly they just want food and are convinced we can give it to them. With this in mind I will just kick the pests down to the next level of pools and vegetation. Hopefully they will fall down to a level from which they will not be able to climb back up to the house. Fortunately I am battling no more than one or two rabbits at a time, but now that I am out there they will definitely all be drawn towards me. As I am battling I notice that their rear end, the end that should just have fur but instead has an extra pair of eyes, also has a small pair of rounded ears on top of it. As I notice this another detail is revealed. Underneath their normal rabbit face, on their neck, is a prehensile tail. It was concealed just being curled underneath their head before. They begin to use this prehensile tail to try to wrap and entangle my arms. Frightened by this new development I retreat with my sister to the interior of the house.
We need blades to strike off the prehensile tails of these half rabbit half monkey abominations. I tell her I will go and find one, with the image of my leather man firmly seated in my mind. As I approach my room I realize what a small and futile weapon my leather man will make. I resolve to get my swords. The longest and the shortest one. Despite them being unsharpened I am convinced they will make short work of the entangling tails.
I enter my room and infuriatingly find all my stuff gone and replaced by Christmas ornamentation. How did my grandma have the gall to move all my stuff without consulting me. Now I am angry and panicked for time. Jogging through the house purposefully I open several doors, feeling that my time is about to run out. I need to find the room where my stuff was moved to. My short jaunt for a weapon has now turned into a quest that is taking too long. Panicked that I will return too late I abandon the search and resolve to use one of the small blades by the sliding glass door, main exit to the backyard. Three assorted blades are on the ground, side by side. I pick up the biggest, but it is still too small to fight with. I need something to lop with. I would have to be very lucky to cut off a monkey tail with so small a blade.
Hearing my lamentations the owner of the house approaches me asking why the blade in my hand is inappropriate. I describe the infestation his backyard has that I am trying to fight off. Disturbed he goes out into the backyard to investigate. Fortunately there are no monkey-rabbits nearby at this time. While investigating his backyard we find the edge of the property and a large root of several meters diameter going skyward.
The property we are on is a an island floating in the sky. At the lowest level of pools and vegetation in the backyard a giant root from the island gnarls away into the sky. It was not visible where the root ended, but it was obvious it reached towards another sky island. This is how our island remained in the sky. It was suspended from another island by means of the gigantic root. The owner explained that the monkey-rabbits were most likely coming from along the root to reach his house, but we could not cut the root for the whole house would drop from the sky.
An old strange man traveled down the root to where we stood observing the root. The owner related our problem and asked if it would be safe to cut the root now that times have changed. Theoretically with the present shift in the world all the islands should be able to hang suspended by themselves. Since nobody had yet tested it though it was a dangerous proposition. After the owner explained all this, the old man craned his neck looking into the owner's eyes and cackled.
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