– author unknown

The day was bright the wind came from the west sweet with the smell of spring, it was early in the morning and the sun had just made it’s appearance and it would be a lovely day. Wex tilted his head and took a deep breath he smelled other things as well flowers, the damp smell of last nights rain and something else, something he didn’t recognize, being a curious fellow Wex decided to investigate.

First though he must get something to drink, he trotted off to a nearby stream knelt down and cupped his fur backed hands He scooped water and drank thirstily. After a few large gulps he sat looking at his reflection in the water, for a Krezdonian he was thought of as handsome with his large broad nose and almond shaped green eyes he thought to himself perhaps I am. His face was almost entirely covered with thick fur, well kept and trimmed. His fur was brown with light undertones of white which was rare in his tribe and gave him a rather distinguished look he thought. He was also rather tall standing about 4 feet in height making him a sought after mate in his tribe for he would provide strong off spring, he gulped once more from the spring and set off to investigate that strange smell.

The day really was beautiful, it always was after a good rain. Birds chirped happily in the trees small critters ran about on various tasks and Wex pranced along merrily following his well developed nose to adventure and discovery. After a little while the smell became stronger almost pungent and over powering but that wouldn’t stop Wex he was a brave adventurer everyone said so. On he went now heading through thick vegetation and tall trees the strange smell getting stronger all the time. He struggled on though bush and bramble he must be close now and finally the vegetation gave way and he stepped into a clearing and his large eyes went wide with astonishment and awe.

The smell was almost unbearable now and it came from a large structure in the clearing. Wex had never seen anything so large in his entire life it was silvery and had weird tubes coming out from all sides that stabbed themselves into the ground. More tubes ran from the back of the structure and sat above the stream letting a weird black liquid pour into the stream, Wex thought that was where the smell was coming from and he wondered if that new liquid would be good to drink.

No time for that now though he wanted to investigate. Halla back at the village would be so impressed with his discovery that she might even favor him with that kiss he had dreamed of for so long. Not only where the smells intense but the noise that came from the structure was almost deafening so many different noises it was hard to concentrate but on Wex went after all he was an adventurer.

As Wex approached the structure he began to look for an entrance walking along the side merrily, whistling a fine tune full of joy at his discovery he went on. The structure was massive and it took him a good deal of time to find the entrance, a large gaping hole in what he thought was the front of the massive structure, but once he found it there was no stopping him then and in he went.

Inside was like nothing he had ever seen before strange things moved and pumped liquid and made strange gasses into the air. The noise was even greater now and hurt his ears and the smell was also much worse.

Wex was brave though and he forged deeper into this strange place, he went on and on not understanding the strange things he saw but determined to see all he could. He finally came to a small entrance that lead into a large room, he entered it and saw that lined along the walls where strange rectangular things that stood a couple of feet off the floor. He approached one meaning to discover what is was. To Wex’s amazement there was a strange creature sleeping on it, a rather large strange creature. This creature was rather ugly in Wex’s op ion it had eyes to small for it’s face and a tiny nose and to his surprise no hair on its face none, not one bit, it had some on its head but not enough to serve any real purpose.

Wex shuffled his feet in confusion and the creatures eyes fluttered open with sleepiness, it looked straight at Wex and screamed an ear piercing scream that sent Wex to the floor covering his ears for protection. What happened after Wex really didn’t understand. More creatures came all yelling and screaming and pointing strange things at Wex he was so confused.

He had made these creatures angry somehow. Before he knew what was going on he was in a cage and being moved towards a strange bird like creature, well it kind of looked like a bird except it was huge and silvery then he was being loaded into the belly of the bird and he felt himself rising into the air. For the first time in a very long time Wex cried. He really didn’t know what he had done but it must of been really bad and he vowed to himself when he got home no more adventures for Wex.