I woke up to the sunlight once more on Day 3. It felt good that I could use the amount of heat on the leaf to tell time! Man I'm so smart for thinking of it.
As usual, I was the first to wake up and explore the surroundings.
That morning was different from the rest. I looked around and the green that I was used to since I was born was had decreased dramatically.
Man we snails are voracious animals!
Without noticing, we totally did a number on our birth leaf. Before long we will eat ourselves out of house and home. Well not "house and home", since we carried our houses and homes on our backs.
We are snails! Our shells are the ultimate mobile home or a B&B without the first B or well the second B.
:/
Wait what is a B&B? And why am I talking about them to you? O.O
Anyways, what I meant was we were about to lose our leaf if we continued to eat from it.
That day I decided to start a public service announcement. Well a family service announcement. Okay okay, it was just me yelling at my family again...
...
"Hey sis look take a look at our leaf, our birthplace." I used my two eye stalks to point around. "Hey bro you take a look too! Look around. Our majestic home is being eaten away, and to protect it we must eat less and preserve the environment that nature had given us!"
None of my siblings even batted an eye or looked my way? Can you believe it?
On a side note: I was still a snail, I don't have vocal cords. So yes. They didn't know I was talking to them, but that didn't stop me.
'Maybe if I make it more personal, they'll listen to me.' I thought instead.
So without parents, and being the big brother of all my hundreds of siblings, I took it upon myself to give them names.
"You there, sis from today on you will be called Melody! How gracious to be named after the best part of a song."
"You, yeah you. I can't tell what gender you are so I'll give you the best name possible: Jody!"
Other than eating and pooping that day, I spent the whole day finding names for my family. There was Kevin, Keven with and e, Seven who rhymes with Kevin and Keven and so on.
After I got through two hundred or so siblings I suddenly ran out of creative juice.
"Damn it. Why did I have so many siblings? Parents who I don't know, how could you have so many children and abandon them?" I cried out in anguish as I banged my two eye stumps on the leaf in frustration.
Until suddenly, I had an idea. Why don't I just use numbers? Like Seven, but instead just 7?
Wait.. what are numbers and since when have I learned to count? 0.0
With new inspiration, I continued to name my siblings.
Starting once more I booped one of my siblings on the shell. "You will be called 2".
What? You thought I was going to start with 1? No way. Of course I would never name someone "1" since I will always be number 1. Hmmph.
And I continued.
I kind of felt jealous of 7 and 8. Now that I think about it, they were a pair of lucky snails... Later I came to have a small fear of 7.
Why you ask?
Because 789.
Damn it 9. He was so young. If only my announcement was successful; the leaf would have grown back a little, this wouldn't have happened to him.
After naming 9, I continued on and eventually hit 13 and 14. I was sure 13 and 14 were going to be unlucky. And not surprisingly they were the most unlucky...
42 seemed like he knew what was in store for him like he was omniscient or something. And 69 well, let's forget about 69.
I continued to practice my counting skills on my siblings that day until I finally finished all of them.
Upon finishing, the sun was already setting and I felt very tired and mentally exhausted.
I fell asleep content and I slept soundly that night.
Now that I look back at it, I was a joyous idiot. I spent all day naming my siblings and I forgot to name the most important one of them all that day. I forgot to give a name to myself...
Summary of day 3: I gave a PSA about the environment and named my entire family.
+ 2 intelligence
+ 1 stupidity
[Quest initiated: Save my leaf, my birthplace]
[Title acquired: I know my numbers!]