It's been months since the Danger House crew traveled far from the park to the Outback, join Maddie and her friends as they navigate different slices of life through friendship, love, adventure, a new friend, and . . . a new enemy perhaps?
And yes...
This essentially takes place after the events of the flood from Back to the Outback, but from the point of view of Maddie's birth mother.
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"Excuse me, sir, have you seen an egg float by?"
"No, sorry, love," a Frilled-Neck Lizard replied sadly.
"Excuse me, sir, have you seen a small egg drift by during the flood by any chance—?"
"I don't know, mate! There was a lot of things floating in the damn water!," interrupted an aggravated Thorny Devil, who was being assisted with the help of a young, female Inland Taipan Snake, to collect whatever food was left after the chaotic flood that lasted for weeks.
The Taipan in question, had chestnut brown scales with hints of auburn hue that cascaded down her smooth plates, repetitive "C" like patterns on her back that are an almond color, a sandy brown underbelly, yellow sclera in the outer layers of her eyeballs, and purple irises.
She also kept five of her eggs in a sack tied behind her. If it were any other day, she would've left them in her nest—if the damn flood hadn't snatched away her sixth and youngest egg from her coils that were supposed to protect all of her unhatched children.
After a few minutes of helping her distant neighbors reorganize their food supply (the few neighbors that managed to hide away in the rocks and burrows at least) and clean up whatever debris disseminated the ground, the young mother slipped away from the group.
No emotion crossed her scaly face as she slithered alone on the sandy trail within the walls of the wide canyon.
She used her tail to re-adjust the hems of the sack around what would be her waist if she had four limbs. It was a random sack she found earlier among the many lost items and food that were scattered after the flood, before helping her neighbors. She gazed behind her every now and then just to be sure none of her remaining eggs fell off the sack.
She continued to slither down the trail. She caught frequent glimpses of other reptiles and funnel-web spiders sealing their God-given reunion by hugging their friends or romantic partner that have managed to survive, helpful neighbors checking to see if everyone else was okay, annoying Koalas giving one of the Scorpions a hard time over their venom, and finally, other Inland Taipan parents that were able to reunite with their little ones. The tiny snakes that were able to hatch safely without the threat of Hawks or Dingoes lingering nearby. Or in their case, the threat of an oncoming flood.
From a distance, she longingly observed as another mother snake embraced her youngest child. A child that'd hatched in the nick of time for its parents to witness its first imprint.
A child in which that wasn't robbed from its mother before she could even get a glimpse if it's a son or daughter, if it's born healthy, if it looked more like her or their father, and most importantly—their development to adulthood.
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