Weird Pets

The keepers have one family for the beasts that would go into no other, and they call it weird and do not apologise. In it are a dolphin that swims through the air, and an octopus that does the same, and a chicken that has teeth. Among these chickens it is the cock that is called the hen, and no keeper will say why.

There is also a doll. It was never alive, and it hatches from an egg like the rest, and it giggles; and those who have looked into the matter say that there is voodoo in it, and have not looked further. The egg of any of them can be told at once, for it will not lie still.

Details

• Commonest to rarest, with their young: Dolphin (dolphin calf), Chicken (cockerel), Platypus (platypup), Bat (bat kit), Octopus (octopus larva), Mini-Doll (baby doll).
• Their eggs are vibrating and funky. They are found in treasure, and the rarer ones are seldom seen in the treasure of low levels.
• The dolphin, the chicken, the bat and the octopus are born flying.
• The dolphin, the bat and the mini-doll learn magical tricks almost only, and the platypus hardly any.