Chapter Two

The honeymoon in the tide pool of enchantment (don't let the name fool you. It's like, the most dangerous place ever) lasted a whole week, and honestly, I don't remember half of it. It took us six days to get back to Buck's old place, a big old tree, much too big for just him. Too big for both of us come to think of it…

"Oy! Who in the bloody hell- Markus?" Buck yelled upon going into another room in the tree.

I ran into the same room just to hear two males whooping and hollering and carrying on. Buck was hugging a darker brown weasel with both eyes, gray ones. I just assumed for the moment that he was Markus.

"Suzy cue, this is my twin brother, Markus." Buck informed me, wiping a tear from his loan eye.

"I didn't know you had a brother." I answered, smiling at the both of them, they had their arms around each other all brotherly like. "I'm Suzan, Buck's wife. It's very nice to meet you Markus."

"Oh bother dash, "Markus" call me Mark." he answered, shaking my hand vigorously. "And you!" Mark turned Buck's way, "Your married? Ya daft old fool, and I wasn't invited to the wedding?" Mark and Buck laughed.

"Well, well I don't know what to say." I stated truthfully.

"Well I'd like to know how Buck has been all his life, witch brings us back to, ya daft old fool!" he slugged Buck, "Tell me everything, start from the beginning!" Mark demanded.

We all went into the family room area and talked, and talked, and talked… and talked. Evidently Buck struck out on his own at the age of fifteen, leaving behind his twin brother and older sister, to face the world. Met a few girls on the way, none of them making a real connection, and so he founded a new. Dinotopia. Yup, he lost his eye, helped the herd blah blah blah. Then I told my story of how my entire body of family and friends burned and died in a terrible fire, bringing me to the herd and eventually, Buck.

Well we asked Markus how in the hell he'd gotten there, and how he knew where to find us. Peaches. Peaches had told him where to go. So that's how that happened. Then Buck asked about the fam.

"So Mark, How's mum and dad?" Buck asked nonchalantly, carving something out of a piece of wood.

"Well, I hate to bearer bad news, but dad died two years ago of scarlet fever, as for mum, she's alive and well. And sis, she married and had children and left the nest to go someplace new." Markus explained, "The women folk miss ya at home, maybe sometime you could bring the lassie to see the in-laws!" he suggested.

"Sounds good, but I'd also like to visit father's grave if he's not been cremated." Buck answered,

"Aye, he has been, but we buried the ashes six feet under so the disease wouldn't spread to the rest of us." Markus told us in a serious form.

Buck nodded understandingly. "Well Suzy cue, are you up for it?"

"Aye, I think I am." I answered, smiling at the both of them.