Chapter 4
“Now, what did you say we should do when we got to the fork? Left or right?” said Me.
“Left”, barked StellaLuna. “Right it is”, said Me.
“Wrong,” thought StellaLuna to herself as she pulled Me down the left path with the leash. There's more than one way to speak.
“I thought you said, “Right””, said Me. “But I guess you said, ”Left”. So to the left we shall go.”
They continued to follow the left path through the forest. As they rounded a corner, StellaLuna noticed a face in a tree that they had just passed. “Hello,” said StellaLuna to the tree. “ My name is StellaLuna”.
“Hello,” said the tree, “I have the first half of your name. My name is Stella."
"Do you see a face?” asked Me.
“Over here,” barked StellaLuna as she pulled on her leash again and spun Me around to see.
“Wow,” said Me, “That's a real cool face … it looks kinda like a llama to me. I think we should call her StellaLlama. We should get a picture of you two. A picture of StellaLuna and StellaLlama” Me then took off his backpack to get his camera phone out to take some pictures.
“Well, he kind of got my name right,” said Stella. ”But …I do like the sound of StellaLlama. I think I’ll keep it. A picture of StellaLlama and StellaLuna will be nice. ”
“How did he know your name was Stella?” asked StellaLuna.
“He probably heard me say it but doesn’t think he did. Most humans can hear us; they just don’t listen anymore,” said StellaLlama. “For fun, I like to constantly repeat a random word, as a human walks by ...most of the time they just keep on walking, but once in a while … you can see they heard something … like an idea just popped into their head, but they don’t know where it came from. I like to think of myself as a muse who loves a little mischief … who sometimes inspires humans. Do you think I am a muse … ing?”
“Yes," said StellaLuna. “That explains why I kept hearing the word picture, picture, picture, picture, when we first walked up."
“Okay, I’m finally ready,” said Me, “StellaLuna, stop chatting with your friend for a second, and stand next to StellaLlama.” Me took a few pictures of StellaLuna and StellaLlama. “That was fun. I should start taking pictures of the tree faces more often,” said Me. " Bark goodbye to your friend, and let's go see who else is here."
As they continued to walk through the forest, they saw several faces that day, like Cutie, in the circle on the top left of this page, but eventually, the loop brought them back to where they started, and it was time to leave. Of course, they had to stop and say goodbye to Dodgson before they left.
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