You think that the Dodo bird is extinct. Well, that’s not quite true.
Hermal is, for some unknown reason, the last remaining Dodo bird in existence.
“I will find my friends someday, but I don’t know where to look. They are hiding from me,” the bird will tell you.
Hermal disappeared in a temporal vortex when his friends played a nasty trick on him. The Dodo went into the cave of blue light on a bet.
They told me to hide in the pretty light and count to 100. “I don’t know how to count that high, so I waited, and when I came out, everybody was gone,” said Hermal.
Hermal ended up 300 years into the future. He now lives alone on Mauritius Island in the Indian Ocean.
Being a simple bird, he still thinks his friends will come and find him. All he has to do is wait for them.
Hermal enjoys the local birds and creatures who tell him stories but misses his family. “I hope tomorrow my family will surprise me and take me home,” Hermal says to the birds.
Hermal met an ancient tortoise once who told him that no one like him lived on the island. Hermal thought he was teasing and laughed.
Hermal lives in the jungle near the ancient stones and eats the Jub Jub berries. He makes a wish each night before he sleeps.
“Star of bright, may my friends take me home tomorrow.”
The local animals feel sorry for the Dodo. They know no one has visited the island since the two-leggers left.
Poor Dodo. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.
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