During the past few months, Alterra had welcomed a couple more Terran Animals.
Well, to be more accurate, several months prior Gwen, Winona, and Althea had tea time in the verandah area. The kittens were just a few weeks old and had just begun to walk.
At the time, they were watching over the twins as they played with the cats, very much enjoying themselves in the improved playgrounds that spanned the different neighboring lots.
When the kittens were born, Mathilda had commissioned Baron’s Woodworkers to create a massive play area for the cats.
After about a week of construction, a massive and intricate cat playground that spanned three of the four lots was built. (Althea’s garden was skipped in case they damaged the plants there with their plays).
There were towering scratching posts, as well as sturdy rope ladders and bridges suspended at various heights.
There were stairs and climbing posts, and there were also toys placed all over the playground. In some areas, there were even multi-level pavilions with cascading platforms and hidden alcoves.
Very fun.
It was just that while the cats and kids were enjoying themselves, they couldn’t help but wonder about the others still out there.
"I wonder how many Terran animals are still out there," Winona mumbled with a heavy sigh, patting her belly—which was very big at that time. Gwen and Althea looked at each other then, and they wondered: What if they rescued them, too?
So they decided to fund a major movement to locate Terran Animals, particularly while they were still in Village level. When they upgraded to a Town, basically the nearby Terran animals that were still around (if any) would have even lesser chances of survival.
And so, they set the reward of quite a bit of gold and contribution points, so even Aborigines started looking out for them.
There were almost immediate results. Within the first week, they found three cats in the northeast territories, one of which ended up in Shrao Village, and the other two in Belluga. They didn’t have masters and were also attractive as battle pets more than the contribution points.
Before sending them back to Alterra, there were a lot of people who tried to get the cats to bite them. Sadly, none seemed interested at all.
There were also a few pairs of cats found in the South, though one ended up staying because Micheal actually managed to tame one. It was a fluffy white cat, which oddly fit Micheal’s image somehow.
The white cat seemed to have married a calico cat which, interestingly, bit Juno, Micheal’s closest guards.
The first dogs found after Fufi were also very interesting. The Alterran caravan found them settled in the camping grounds. They had actually been there a while, though they would hide somewhere nearby when people arrived so they were largely undetected until recently.
They only revealed themselves this time because Fufi came with the caravan.
They were a group—a pack—that formed to help each other survive. Through the past months, they had gained a bit of strength, with the lowest level dog at level 4.
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