Prologue
The small rodent-like creature scurried along the rock face, its small beady eyes searching for anything edible. It hadn't found anything to eat in nearly an hour and with its lightning fast metabolism, burning up calories almost as fast it could consume them, it needed to find a decent sized source of food or be forced to forage during the night. Finally it found a small bush surrounded by a few weeds. It was enough food to survive on for nearly three days, and with a small crack in a boulder next to it, the rodent had found its next home.
Just as it began to feast the rodent heard the footsteps of two considerably larger creatures walking its way. With a small squeak of fear the rodent ran into its new found shelter, turned around, and peaked back out the entrance to watch the creatures as they came by.
Two long necks rounded the corner and at first the rodent thought it was seeing double, until it noticed the subtle differences between the two dinosaurs. The two were slightly different sizes, one a little bit larger than the other. The larger of the two had brown eyes, was a dark tan with a touch of purple and had a large patch of a very dark purple running along his back. The smaller had blue eyes and similar color scheme, except lighter, and with a pink hue, both were obviously very young.
"Ali, are there any other kids our age in your herd?" the larger asked the smaller, apparently named Ali, as he nervously kicked a small rock off the ledge to their left. The rodent had noticed that the larger long neck had seemed perfectly comfortable, if a little worried, when he had first rounded the corner, but now he couldn't bring himself to look at Ali. He seemed extremely nervous and well out of his comfort zone.
"A few, why?" Ali answered innocently, she seemed completely fine. "Are any of them boys?" the larger responded. I see what he's trying to do, the rodent thought with a surprisingly complete knowledge of dinosaur relationships.
"I don't know, there's a few, why are you so curious Littlefoot?" Ali asked
"I don't know" Littlefoot hastily responded, "Just trying to pass the time."
The rodent realized that Littlefoot's answer was too little, too late; the look on Ali's face told it that she had realized what was going through the head of her traveling partner. It saw the tails of the two long necks brush up against each other several times, until on the third time Littlefoot made his move. His tail rapped round Ali's tail, and Ali returned the gesture. The rodent felt his heart beat faster and began to wonder why he was reacting so acutely to what was happening, it didn't affect him. The long necks stopped and looked into each other's eyes, for nearly a minute not even the leaves on the nearby bush moved. Suddenly they broke eye and tail contact, looked away in embarrassment and resumed their walk as if nothing happened.
The rodent felt the sudden surge of disappointment. "What are you doing? Why didn't you kiss her?! She likes you!!!!" the rodent found itself yelling to nobody in particular, the long necks couldn't understand him. "God dam it you idiot!" it yelled again. "No!", this time though, it wasn't a rodent's voice yelling.