Well, though Adam, this is nice! I can smell flies round here someplace…
His thoughts were interrupted by Angela. "I think our toad friend should live here, in this glass box sort of thing."
She pulled a large, glass-fronted box out of a cabinet at the back of the store room they were standing in.
I would like that, if I were a frog, said Solembum.
"Then it's decided!" Angela cooed, and bustled back into the front of the shop.
Come on, frog, Solembum lead Adam out after Angela.
Angela had noticed that Adam was a clever frog, and thought that he should be house-trained. So he followed Solembum everywhere, and sat still while they did business.
Adam was happy about this, and had had a brilliant day with them in the shop. He wasn't worried about the other frogs worrying about him, as none of them cared for him.
Actually, thought Adam, as he jumped up to the counter, I wasn't that well off, out there. At least here people like me. In fact, people think I'm special!
This was true, as all the people who had come in so far that day had noticed him and commented on his fine looks, and asked what he was there for.
They would then be treated to a long lecture from Angela about her theory's on the non existence of toads. I bet they wish they hadn't asked, smirked Solembum as another dazed shopper left the dark shop.
The question of where Adam was going to stay while he was there came up as they were shutting up shop for the day. Angela at bustled into the storeroom in her busy fashion and almost instantly pulled out the glass-fronted box. It's like she knows all of what's in there, and where, Solembum had commented as they watched her.
Solembum liked talking to Adam. Adam, of course, being a frog, couldn't speak, but Solembum found comfort in relaying what he was thinking to another being, and Adam answered with an ever growing variation of croaks. Angela hadn't noticed.
Adam settled down on his new grass bed inside his new glass house, and wondered how, just 24 hours earlier, he had been happy hopping around in the grass outside Terim day in, day out.