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Otters of the black and pink shirt

Well, what an eventful day today was! I have had reports coming in from all over the raft. Obviously there have been the every day reports, progress on the temporal flow project, ideas about possible cures for the otter cold, ideas about cures for cold otters you know, the kind of thing. Routine stuff…

However, mixed in with all of these were increasingly flustered updates from Debbie Shorttail concerning the antics of those damn hamsters. She is very concerned with them getting too close together and causing the demise of civilisation as we know it, or implosion of the raft and surrounding rivers at the very least! This is the sort of thing that happens all the time when future and past versions of small rodents meet, or so I am told.  What she hasn’t told me is how they know that, as far as we all know this is the first time anyone has had to deal with temporally unstable hamsters!

There have been predictions of course and some damnably impressive maths otters have done some calculations and worked out what they think will happen, but what they failed to take into account is how much trouble two mischievous Cedrics can cause.

They started by just chatting, and chatting and chatting! Talking to yourself is apparently much more fun if another version of yourself can answer. This wasn’t universe threatening, merely annoying. Then they started giving Debbie the slip and getting up to all sorts of antics.

A report came in from the gifted otter primary school that a hamster was  teleporting across the room. It seems one Cedric was popping up at the window and as he ducked down again the other Cedric was walking in through the door, and so forth. The small otters were highly impressed but the teachers did not feel the same!

Part of the trouble with these creatures is that it is impossible to tell them apart. Well of course it is, they are the same creature. Debbie has solved the problem temporarily by giving them little hats. I am sure this won’t flummox them for long. The quicker we find a way to send future Cedric back the better I say!

The other interesting report I have received is from Simon Swifttail concerning the Otterman Prophecy. They have apparently translated two more very intriguing passages. No one has the first idea what they mean yet but I thought you might like to see them.

Otters of the forest and grassland
Otters of the black and pink shirt
How are you going to sleep on the train?

Black and pink shirts? Well I never! I wonder who is going on a train, otters tend not to use them you know.

The otters of the world are just leaving
Why not be in the same place as the dragon
Why not have fun with the otters of time

More dragons and some Otters of Time! The temporal experimental team will be pleased!!

This all needs a good deal of thought!!

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  1. Reblogged this on Midsummer 365 Projects and commented:

    Just thought I’d keep you all updated on what the otters are up to! Don’t forget if you want to read about all of their antics first hand follow the Otter Chronicles 😀
    (yes, this is a blatant plug for my other blog 🙂 )

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  3. Good work from all otters here, especially the translation by Simon. Otters of the world leaving is something of a worry – where are they going? Are they travelling by train? I hope they won’t be affected by the strikes. The shirts suggest a disguise of some kind… or maybe they are trying to impress the dragon. Curiouser and curiouser! Naughty hamsters running amok… the otters certainly have their hands full!

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    1. Otters of the world leaving is indeed a worry…I think the whole wearing shirts and travelling by train definitely suggests some form of undercover operation…
      I cna only assume that not all the otters of the world are leaving…unless this is going to turn into a space otter adventure.
      (this is not beyond the bounds of possibility with otters)
      I think the otters are going to have to do something with one of the Cedrics… hopefully in a non-violent non-paradox inducing way…

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      1. I hope not all the otters leave, that would be awful! What would we do without otters? I suspect they are wise enough not to all go. Besides, some of them need to stay behind to keep an eye on those Cedrics…

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      2. I strongly suspect that the world as we know it would cease to exist if all the otters leave!
        If for no other reason than we might become overrun with time travelling menacey Cedrics!

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