the creature speaks to you
The creature appears to understand you, and answers in a series of
beeps and clicks which you have never heard before, but somehow can
recognize. You take the creatures to mean something like, "We
will help you." You don't know if that is exactly what you wanted
from the creature, but you will take it if it is all you can get.
You stand up and follow the creature, who has started to drift away.
"My name is not 'the creature', it's Wanda." Wanda? you
think. Why would such an unusual creature have such a common name?
"Is my name common?" asked Wanda. "It's not common
here. My mother gave to me."
You trip slightly over a pebble and find yourself flying - no,
hurtling - over the edge of a deep canyon. Wanda is laughing at you
from the top of the cliff as you plunge earthward.
"What is this place?" you ask.
