The day after Louis emotional moment, the two were back at Louis burrow in his room.
"I know who you should meet next."Louis said as they climbed out of the burrow.
"Follow me." He said diving into the ground and tunneling away at a fast pace. Lori followed him for a long time until they heard voices up above them.
Louis popped his head out of the ground and climbed out of the hole, then helping Lori out and onto her feet.
A few feet in front of them there were two mammoths, one young female and an older male, most likely her father, and 4 possums, two were relaxing on a rock, one asleep his head and arms hanging over the edge and the other relaxing with one leg bent and was leaning back on his hands looking around. They both looked identical accept for eye color, one had blue eyes and the other had brown. They were most likely brothers, maybe even twins.
The other two were standing in front of a stump. One with stick glasses writing on a piece of bark with a burnt stick, and the other had longer hair than most other possums Lori had seen going over his right eye and was looking over the others shoulder.
Louis walked her over to the mammoths. They were talking, the older one looked aggravated.
"Dad," the younger mammoth said, "the beaver was practically blind, how can you expect him to know you leg wasn't a tree?"
Lori chuckled at the strange sentence.
"Guys?" Louis said trying to get their attention.
"Hey Louis-" The younger a mammoth began but stopped herself mid-sentence when she saw Lori. Her easy perked up and her green eyes brightened.
The older mammoth looked surprised at the little molehogs new friend.
"And friend. Who's this?" the young mammoth asked.
"Peaches, Manny, This is Lori." Louis introduced them. Lori waved.
"Lori, this is Manny," Louis said gesturing to the older male mammoth. Manny waved subtly with his trunk.
"and this is Peaches." Louis said gesturing to the younger female mammoth. Peaches waved enthusiastically with her trunk.
"Nice to meet you Lori." Manny said.
"You look like a nice person." Peaches said happily. "Nice to meet you."
"It's nice to meet you too." Lori said giggling.
Louis led Lori over to the rock and stump where the possums were stationed.
"Guys?"
The possums looked up, accept for the sleeping one
"This is Lori, Lori this is Brian," Louis gestured to the one with the stick glasses.
"Hello." Brian said in greeting to Lori.
"Finn," Louis continued and gestured to the one with the long hair.
Immediately Finn took a step toward Brian and almost hid behind him, but Brian stepped out of the way and pushed him forward toward Lori.
"Finn, you know that you have to make more friends besides us, Louis, and Peaches." Brian said.
"But I don't want to." Finn whispered to Brian.
"Tough love."Brian said, nudging him closer to Lori.
Finn was shaking with fear in his blue eyes. He squeaked a little bit and covered his mouth.
After that Lori decided to be the first one to say something.
"Hi." Lori said gently.
"Hi…" Finn said in almost a whisper. Then, still shaking, slowly backed up and hid behind Brian, peeking over his shoulder. Brian sighed and slapped his hand on his forehead.
"OK... and that's Eddie," Louis leaned closer to Lori and they turned around "Finn has a crush on him." Louis whispered extra quietly. They turned back around.
"And Crash is," Louis sighed disappointedly "asleep."
Eddie looked at Crash and smiled sinisterly, pushing him off the rock. Crash hit the ground and woke up. Luckily, he hadn't been up high enough to get hurt. Crash glared at Eddie, growling, as Eddie pointed and laughed. Crash sprung up from the ground and knocked Eddie off of the rock and they proceeded to wrestle on the ground.
"Are they always like this?" Lori asked no one in particular while everyone stared at Crash and Eddie wrestling.
"Yeah pretty much." Brian said. He went back to his work and Finn stood behind him looking over Brians shoulder.
"Done."Brian said suddenly.
He stacked up his pieces of bark and tucked them under his arm, adjusting his glasses on his nose.
"Ok," Finn said, grabbing Brians shoulders." Is there any chance, ever, that Eddie will get hurt? I'm serious, any chance at all?" Finn asked worriedly.
"Well, in about 15 minutes the wind will be going at 20 miles per hour, and if we time it right the trick will work perfectly." Brian said, studying his pieces of bark.
"And if we don't?" Finn asked wringing his hands.
"Well, Eddie could…"Brian mumbled after that.
"What?" Finn asked
"I said Eddie could…"he mumbled again.
"Brian spit it out, what will happen to Eddie if we time it wrong?"
Brian sighed "If we don't time it right and the wind is off Eddie might… Break a leg." Brian finished reluctantly.
"You're not doing the stunt!"Finn yelled turning toward Crash and Eddie who paused tussling.
Brian sighed and looked down and Crash and Eddie untangled, surprisingly fast.
"What do you mean?" Eddie asked disappointedly.
"No way, this time I'm putting my foot down. If you do this and get hurt I'll never forgive myself."Finn said.
"Well then we have to find another possum with the same height and weight as Eddie besides Crash," Brian said looking at his pieces of bark "and there's only one possum like that." He said looking up over his glasses at Finn.
Finn looked around and saw that everyone was looking at him.
"Oh no, no, no, no, no. there is no way you are going to get me on that tree!"
uh huh. yeah.I made Eddie a little nicer than he actually is by accident but I don't want him to be a complete jerk. This is like a few years after continental drift so I guess maybe he might have matured?Do you like it so far? did I mess up anywhere?