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Dein just came, as he heard Spike's statement.

"<Practice in what?>" he asked.
Pessimist sees a dark tunnel. Optimist sees a light in the tunnel. Realist sees the light of coming train. And a driver sees three idiots standing on the track.

"My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today." - Watership Down by Richard Adams.


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Terri stepped out of the trees with another swimmer in her mouth, but a smile clearly visible on her face.
"I'll just take this one back to our nest for dinner then." she said aloud as she began to walk off...and then she stopped for a moment and turned to Dien and commented by saying, "And for the sake of conversation...fast biters are more annoying...they can actually steal our kills." Then she continued walking back to their nest.

Hunter smiled brightly at Rhamphy and gave a warm greeting back.
"Good morning to you as well little one." She then noticed he was soaking his shoulder and frowned.
"Are you alright?"

Cyrix finished his drink in the water and silently waited for Rhamphy to answer, wither he wanted to explain his situation again or not would be up to him of course.


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"<We are thinking in practicing sharptooth to get better>" - Trod answered to Chomper's father, his eyes still showing a mix-up of amazement and a bit of fear of having such a big sharptooth so close to him.

Rhamphy looked at Hunter - "I am fine, I may have whacked myself with a tree when I got here... I cannot remember though... (he checks his shoulder again and smiles) but at least nothing is broken." - the kid sits down for a bit - "But that explains only my shoulder's bruise... my whole body still aches. Hehehe, I suppose that happens when you spend the last ten bright circles trying to run away from someone who has ten-times your size."


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Hunter smiled.
"Glad to see you're okay...and yes...running for ten bright circles would tire anyone out and cause one to bruise themselves needlessly. But again you are safe and alive and that is all that matters."

Cyrix sighed for a moment.
"Excuse me Rhamphy did you happen to see another flyer out there in the Mysterious Beyond? A blue flyer about your age with a very long tail?" he asked hopefully


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"<Us speaking sharptooth,>" Spike replied to Dein.


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Ducky nods, <You should just rest until you feel better, you should, you should.> Ducky said to Rhamphy nodding.  

<Yea, just sit down and rest.> Littlefoot said.


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Rhamphy remianed sit for a bit, taking a second to reply to Cyrix as he began thinking. - "Trod and I have encountered many dinosaurs and I've been... relunctant to be near other Flyers like me. I think that if you give me some little time I could try to remember, is that ok?" - The flyer went closer to the water and began drinking some more.

"<Sharptooth language can be fun, but it is hard sometimes.>" - Trod reunited some courage to ask the big sharptooth - "<Excuse mister, are you still interested to learn the flattooth language?>"


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"Yeah, that be annoying mommy," Chomper agreed. "Even though I don't think the kid fast biters are that bad..."


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Terri smiled at Chomper. "I do suppose you have a point my son. Some fastbiter hatchlings can be friendly."

Cyrix quietly sat down and smiled.
"Yes Rhamphy...take your time. If you can remember anything I'll listen as well as I can."


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"Ok..." Twiz thought for a bit, "well I can help you guys with some of the stuff that is tricky, like Trod said...for one thing ya gotta make sure you do the roar correctly even at the end of both bright circle and night circle" he thought of something. He smiled, "Ya know how they kinda sound the same if you don't hear the B and N, well it's worse in sharptooth roars so the little differences on 'circle' in each helps".

"What do you mean?" Kit asked.

"Well, bright circle would go more like this, <bright circle>" Twiz repeated the word in sharptooth, "where as night circle's more <night circle>, see the difference".

"A little bit" Kit admitted. Cory sighed, "Who knew all those roars could be this complicated".

"So, it would be <Circle Night> and <Bright Crumple>?" he tried. Twiz grimaced, "Well close, but not really". Cory sighed.



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"I think I know what you mean." - Trod said to Twiz, he took a breathe and said loudly - "<I come from a herd of cruel Runners and I am looking for a herd of kind-hearted Runners, where my sister and mother live.>" - the kid then sat down and took a deep breathe - "I think I still need a little practice, but as I said, this language has been the only useful thing I took from the herd I come from."

Rhamphy finished drinking water and looked at Cyrix again - "Maybe, if you can give me more details about the Flyer you are looking for, I may be able to tell you something... with some luck."


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<Take your time.  Just take it gradually and we all will get better the more we use it, we will, we will.> Ducky Said.


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"<Yes... I guess hatchlings are acceptable. Problem is they grow up to be adult fastbiters>" Dein said, then he turned to Trod and aswered for his question in flattooth:

"Why not? Practice is good, for sure" his voice again sounded creepy. Not that Papa Sharptooth intended it to be that way, but perhaps if he knew what an impression it makes on leafeaters he wouldn't be displeased.
Pessimist sees a dark tunnel. Optimist sees a light in the tunnel. Realist sees the light of coming train. And a driver sees three idiots standing on the track.

"My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today." - Watership Down by Richard Adams.


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"Not bad at all!" Twiz grinned at Trod's attempt, "that was really good!". As Papa Sharptooth spoke once more, Petrie slowly stepped back closer to where Kit was. Kit for her own part, just tried to keep up the smile on her face and not be too creeped out by the way Chomper's dad sounded, since she knew he didn't mean it.

"You're...getting good at...talking our language yourself..." she told the bigger sharptooth, and it was true, his words were coming out right.



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Trod gave a confident smile after hearing what Twiz said. He then changed his confident smile into a little nervous smile after hearing Chomper's father speaking, but he knows he is right. - "I agree, practice takes us to perfection." - then waiting for a second before repeating that in sharptooth.

In the mean time, Rhamphy was attempting to relax so his body can hurt some less as he waited for more details Cyrix's could give him about the Flyer he is looking for, maybe scale and eyes color... things like that.


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Ducky looked a Rhamphy, "Do you think you would rest easier & feel better faster if you were to lay down, do you?" She asked.


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"<Sleeping always helps,>" said Spike.


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"<And you are doing well too>" Dein said, lying down, because after eating the swimmer he felt the need to rest for awhile. This action made a little ground-shake.
Pessimist sees a dark tunnel. Optimist sees a light in the tunnel. Realist sees the light of coming train. And a driver sees three idiots standing on the track.

"My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today." - Watership Down by Richard Adams.


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Terri finished dropping the swimmer back at their nest and returned to watch chomper and his friends practice speaking sharptooth.
<"You are all doing very well. "> She then turned to Chomper and asked him <"Have you taught them how to say 'run' or 'hide' yet?">

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Cyrix turned to face Rhamphy and said, "Well...I suppose it would help if you knew who the flyer I was searching for looked like. He has blue scales like the sky...his eyes are pink like mine, and his tail is...well longer than his whole body." To prove his point he drew a picture in the dirt with his hand.
"Does that help?" he asked.

Hunter thought she'd heard about a flyer like that, some story about a pack of fastbiters and a nest of eggs.


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Trod nodded to Dein - "<Thank you mister, I think we will all be able to talk fluid sharptooth very ss-sn-soon>" - The kid took out his tongue as he couldn't make the last 'click' on the phrase he was saying.

Rhamphy looked at Ducky and Spike - "I have already sleep a lot, I just need to avoid moving abruptly." - He then listened to Cyrix and saw the sketch the Rainbowface did on the ground - "That was... some time ago already... impulsive, cheerful, I kinda liked him. Yes, I have seen him, but he didn't say where he was going, sorry."