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"You are awake." Her voice was quiet, but her smile blazed like the sunrise.
Kai rubbed his face. "I think I just had a nightmare where a frog tried to lick me with a nasty tongue."
Naaro nodded jokingly. "That was real."
He groaned. "I hate my life."
Sha's voice echoed from the side. "No you do not. You just hate frogs just like us."
Kai looked around. The others were already up. Sha was brushing her blade near a rock. Vel had a map spread out beside a stew pot. Azhara was standing upside down on her hands, for some reason, mumbling chants that might have been either meditation or a breakfast song.
In truth she was lusting over Kai, she got a weird thing that if she saw Kai upside down then it would make Kai directly look into her lower lips, and Kai's Anaconda might get hungry. She thinks, "Sir Kai. See me… watch my rabbit hole and get hungry and fill my insides with your big thick anaconda."
