Strange animal

2-plan

Luca turns over in his bed, the images of that bloody scene he found in the forest still flashing through his head

the hallway light was the only thing illuminating his dark room, and the boy would have to patiently wait for his parents to go to sleep.

after arriving from korine's house, all the boy did was keep silent about everything, and just say that he had gone to friends house to do a school project

would be the most obvious excuse he could give

and besides, korine made him promise he would never talk about it

'promise me Luca, promise me you won't reveal this to your father, if you do, they'll capture him and put him in a cage, that poor animal will never know what it's like to see the light of the day again'

Luca swallows hard, he had never stopped to think that this could happen, after all, they are not supposed to torture the animal, just take care of it.

but

not that the animal is his main focus, he is only interested in getting close to the girl anyway

Minutes passed

the lights go out, the house is officially dark, and everyone is in their rooms sleeping....

luca only waits another 5 safe minutes to get out of bed and go calmly to his father's office, opening the door which luckily doesn't make any sound, he observes the giant bookcase of biology books, prototypes of animal skeletons and plastic organs, scattered on an old-style wooden table

he hurries up, walks over to the table and opens the drawer, revealing a professional camera.

'Hehe easy, knew he would put it here' this object would definitely be able to take high resolution pictures, which would be perfect

....

"C'mon C'mon Luca! Hurry up!"  almost screamed korine excitedly as she walked with Luca to her house

the boys would spend the day camouflaged to find out which creature it was, and it wouldn't be an easy task, from the footprints, it seemed without a little smaller than them, and then there wouldn't be so much danger if she didn't see them.

or at least that's what they thought....

they were hurrying, korine entered the house and quickly came back with a basket full of leftovers, the two passed the fence and went to one of the largest bushes that circled the place where the food would be

without further delay, before the animal arrives, they position the camera with the small tripod that came with it, crouched down and sighed.

"perfect, he usually appears at this time, sometimes I could hear sounds coming from here when I was in my garden, now... he can appear at any time"

after that, there were hours of silence, the boys got more anxious with each passing hour

it was an endlessly boring session for the boy, he already thought about going home to watch a movie or just starting a conversation with the girl, but korie was extremely focused, and would fight with him if he made a noise

if the boy with the red scales was left to sigh, cross his arms and lean

the sun was already gone, and the animal never came

.....

they were about to give up, Luca already was bored

korine still had the little determination left for her.... a little