Chapter 2: Reflections
How was it possible? He'd always thought he was the only human. In the few seconds between their first words, he remembered his childhood, growing up.
He'd been found on the doorstep of an elderly animal's house when he was six months old. The ladies name was Joanne, and she had her own daughter, whom she had named Sow Joan. Her daughter lived in the countryside, at the outskirts of Hawaii Island, and she sold her turnips in town for the stalk market as her means of living. Joanne took him and raised him as her own. Every year, she would celebrate the day that she found him, and would always hold a large celebration for him. When he had turned ten, she told him the truth.
He took it very well. He'd always figured he was different. She told him that he was human, and that she hadn't seen one for ten years, before he'd came along. So, after that, he'd always assumed he'd been the last one. Life continued on much the same as it had, except at the age of 72, she re-married to a fine and nice old boar that lived on the other side of the island. They were a happy family, always cheering and doing something nice for each other, and living life to its fullest. But, as the years wore on, he knew that he should leave his parents for awhile and move into town by himself to give them more time for each other. So he packed his bags, and moved into town via the train.
It was his first train ride, and he met a strange cat named Rover on the train. He asked all kinds of funny questions, like whether he was a boy or girl, even though everyone that looked at him knew he was a boy. But their conversation was cut short by the train's arrival.
Hurrying off the train to avoid Rover, he nearly ran headlong into Porter, the town train attendant.
"Hello, David. Nook is expecting you. He'd like to talk about living arrangements."
Thanking Porter, he walked down the steps and hurried over to Nook's shop, Nookington's. He introduced himself, and asked what he wanted.
"Son, I'd like to give you the house in the middle acre. You saw them, didn't you? Very good. I'm charging 19,800 bells a piece, and I'd like you to work off some of that here.
So David took up his part time job, always going home at the end of the day and collapsing onto the sofa and snoozing. That's how it went for the last few years, but some things had changed since then. He'd finished his job, for starters, and had paid off all of the debt, and now had the largest house. He'd been dating Hazel, but she had had to leave and go live with her parents to finish College, leaving him here by himself.
But life hadn't changed much since then. And now, as he spoke to her, he would find out the most chilling truth of all.
How was it possible? He'd always thought he was the only human. In the few seconds between their first words, he remembered his childhood, growing up.
He'd been found on the doorstep of an elderly animal's house when he was six months old. The ladies name was Joanne, and she had her own daughter, whom she had named Sow Joan. Her daughter lived in the countryside, at the outskirts of Hawaii Island, and she sold her turnips in town for the stalk market as her means of living. Joanne took him and raised him as her own. Every year, she would celebrate the day that she found him, and would always hold a large celebration for him. When he had turned ten, she told him the truth.
He took it very well. He'd always figured he was different. She told him that he was human, and that she hadn't seen one for ten years, before he'd came along. So, after that, he'd always assumed he'd been the last one. Life continued on much the same as it had, except at the age of 72, she re-married to a fine and nice old boar that lived on the other side of the island. They were a happy family, always cheering and doing something nice for each other, and living life to its fullest. But, as the years wore on, he knew that he should leave his parents for awhile and move into town by himself to give them more time for each other. So he packed his bags, and moved into town via the train.
It was his first train ride, and he met a strange cat named Rover on the train. He asked all kinds of funny questions, like whether he was a boy or girl, even though everyone that looked at him knew he was a boy. But their conversation was cut short by the train's arrival.
Hurrying off the train to avoid Rover, he nearly ran headlong into Porter, the town train attendant.
"Hello, David. Nook is expecting you. He'd like to talk about living arrangements."
Thanking Porter, he walked down the steps and hurried over to Nook's shop, Nookington's. He introduced himself, and asked what he wanted.
"Son, I'd like to give you the house in the middle acre. You saw them, didn't you? Very good. I'm charging 19,800 bells a piece, and I'd like you to work off some of that here.
So David took up his part time job, always going home at the end of the day and collapsing onto the sofa and snoozing. That's how it went for the last few years, but some things had changed since then. He'd finished his job, for starters, and had paid off all of the debt, and now had the largest house. He'd been dating Hazel, but she had had to leave and go live with her parents to finish College, leaving him here by himself.
But life hadn't changed much since then. And now, as he spoke to her, he would find out the most chilling truth of all.
