During the past few months, Alterra had welcomed a couple more Terran Animals.
Well, to be more accurate, several months prior Gwen, Winona, and Althea had tea time in the verandah area. The kittens were just a few weeks old and had just begun to walk.
At the time, they were watching over the twins as they played with the cats, very much enjoying themselves in the improved playgrounds that spanned the different neighboring lots.
When the kittens were born, Mathilda had commissioned Baron’s Woodworkers to create a massive play area for the cats.
After about a week of construction, a massive and intricate cat playground that spanned three of the four lots was built. (Althea’s garden was skipped in case they damaged the plants there with their plays).
There were towering scratching posts, as well as sturdy rope ladders and bridges suspended at various heights.
There were stairs and climbing posts, and there were also toys placed all over the playground. In some areas, there were even multi-level pavilions with cascading platforms and hidden alcoves.
Very fun.
It was just that while the cats and kids were enjoying themselves, they couldn’t help but wonder about the others still out there.
"I wonder how many Terran animals are still out there," Winona mumbled with a heavy sigh, patting her belly—which was very big at that time. Gwen and Althea looked at each other then, and they wondered: What if they rescued them, too?
So they decided to fund a major movement to locate Terran Animals, particularly while they were still in Village level. When they upgraded to a Town, basically the nearby Terran animals that were still around (if any) would have even lesser chances of survival.
And so, they set the reward of quite a bit of gold and contribution points, so even Aborigines started looking out for them.
There were almost immediate results. Within the first week, they found three cats in the northeast territories, one of which ended up in Shrao Village, and the other two in Belluga. They didn’t have masters and were also attractive as battle pets more than the contribution points.
Before sending them back to Alterra, there were a lot of people who tried to get the cats to bite them. Sadly, none seemed interested at all.
There were also a few pairs of cats found in the South, though one ended up staying because Micheal actually managed to tame one. It was a fluffy white cat, which oddly fit Micheal’s image somehow.
The white cat seemed to have married a calico cat which, interestingly, bit Juno, Micheal’s closest guards.
The first dogs found after Fufi were also very interesting. The Alterran caravan found them settled in the camping grounds. They had actually been there a while, though they would hide somewhere nearby when people arrived so they were largely undetected until recently.
They only revealed themselves this time because Fufi came with the caravan.
They were a group—a pack—that formed to help each other survive. Through the past months, they had gained a bit of strength, with the lowest level dog at level 4.
This group was comprised of five completely unrelated mutts and one with a breed (a cracker spaniel). When they were found, they were filled with scars and their furs were unevenly cut, but just one look on their eyes and they could see they were survivors.
It was adorable and also admirable.
Anyway, Fufi and Snow would join a lot of caravans since then, and they found even a lot more of their kind in this way. At some point, the cats Kathy and Gary were also sent out, and that also proved quite fruitful.
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As for big animals, so far they found… a family of pandas.
Those creatures had a very peculiar way of surviving despite seeming to have no survival skills at all. They were every universe’s favorite animal, it seemed.
It was just that, for some reason, other than the pandas, medium or big animals like lions, tigers, and the like were not found, which was really a pity. As animal lovers, how could they not be sad at the loss of innocent creatures?
The only hope was that they died without pain, to have died during the first transformations, lost in endless sleep.
Their existence would be remembered by Terrans using their stories, books, arts, and things like stuffed toys and so on.
Anyway, they created a sanctuary for these animals, transforming one of the parks. If they didn’t have owners or masters, they were free to stay there. They were universally loved and didn’t have to worry about food, though they were still trained for their own survival.
Back the the present, Mathilda shifted the conversation to the young couple in front of her—both playing with their ’furry grandchildren’.
"How is the house going?"
"The design is lovely, mother," Gwen said, partially lifting her loving eyes away from the Lele. "We submitted our preferred customizations and it should be ready for occupancy in another month."
They had bought one of the future houses in the next Villa compound being built. It was pre-selling and was less expensive than it would have been if they had bought the house later on.
Not to say it wasn’t expensive though, because it was, especially since it was located in the Hotspring zone.
They couldn’t help but sigh at the missed opportunities. When Alterra was a Village, the cost of buying a villa (not including permanent residency costs) was increased several folds now that it was a Town.
They heard that when Alterra was a newly-built Level 1 Village (Baron bragged a lot about the ’steals’ back then), a farmvilla cost around 100 Gold.
This new Villa area had its most basic unit with a pre-selling cost of 800 Gold, and even bigger after it was built! They didn’t want to get help on this from their family so they took a loan instead, which was easy thanks to their combined contributions.
Gill and Cassandra had also done the same, with Gill renting out the current duplex he bought before. Theirs was even more expensive though because it had a hotspring built in.
Mathilda smiled, seeing the future of her children bright and stable. Hopefully, more grandchildren would run around soon!