Today, the exiles of Puddleby worked to revive the Puddleby Zoo, an exile tradition that dates all the way back to the Great Forgetting, when powerful monsters that wandered into town had to be led behind the fence of Mai's Lawn.

Today's menagerie contained nearly 30 different creatures at it's height, with such beasts as Great Rockodiles, Noble Myrms, and Maha Ruknees. It was quite a spectacle for those sitting in town center, though a few objected to the imprisonment of the creatures.

I know this a zoo, but who's watching who?

Usually these zoos come to and end when some exile's hunting instincts take over, but when I headed for the library around noon, the zoo was still going strong. It will be interesting to see if the critters are still there tomorrow.

In other news, it seems that Slyph was *not* kidnapped by T'rools or eaten by an Orga, as rumor would have it. Indeed, I saw her just earlier today, in one of the more lively exhibits of the Puddleby zoo...

With her hips, apparently