Meet skipiyaya

ONE AFTERNOON, A LITTLE BOY WAS DIGGING AROUND IN HIS BACKYARD, WISHING HE HAD SOMEONE TO PLAY WITH.

HIS FINGERS BRUSHED AGAINST SOMETHING ODD– FIVE TINY, SHIMMERING SEEDS.

CURIOUS, HE TUCKED THEM INTO THE SOIL BESIDE HIS FAVORITE TREE.

SUDDENLY, THE SKY BROKE INTO RAIN.

HE RAN INSIDE, FORGETTING ALL ABOUT THEM.

WEEKS PASSED… UNTIL ONE MORNING, SOFT, CUTE LAUGHTER ECHOED THROUGH THE YARD.

THE BOY SAW FIVE TINY PLANTS SWAYING, THEIR PODS CRACKING OPEN.

FROM WITHIN, FIVE PECULIAR LITTLE CREATURES BLINKED UP AT HIM, DRIPPING WITH DEW AND WONDER.

AT FIRST, THEY WERE SHY.

BUT SOON, THEY LEARNED TO PLAY TOGETHER IN THE BACKYARD AND BECAME BEST FRIENDS.

AS THE BOY GREW OLDER, THE SKIPIYAYAS STAYED BY HIS SIDE.

THEY WEREN’T JUST FRIENDS. THEY WERE THE PIECES OF HIS CHILDHOOD THAT NEVER STOPPED BELIEVING IN HIM.

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