The Zoo's Stowaway

Alicia has had it. She packs her bags and gets the heck out of her adoptive parents house.

Yes, dear readers, our Alicia has run away.

To a zoo.

Woodland Park Zoo (located in Ballard, Washington) is a place Alicia has always wanted to go.

She studied the animals whenever she had time (which was not very often) in Portland, but she needed new scenery.

Once she gets to the zoo, she begins to take long detailed notes on the animals there, and then compares them to how wild, uncaptive animals behave.

She arived at the perfect time.

The day after she got there, she overhears a couple of zookeepers talking.

They spoke of a new mammal that has been discovered, and it's coming to the zoo!

Alicia is overjoyed. A new animal to study? Fantastic!

But what is the mammal is afraid of people? Deathly afraid? And what if this new species is for some reason endangered?

Can Alicia help? How can she, though, if she's a stowaway?