"Hello, little friend, your name is Poddie, right?"
"Pii!" Poddie nodded happily. "Pii! Pii!"
Poddie jumped from the tote bag and held Katarang's little finger as a small handshake.
Katarang chuckled when Poddie tried to shake her little finger. She patted the head of the mutated plant and asked Yang Zhang, "Ash, it makes me wonder, what kind of magic did you do to find all these friendly mutated creatures. Most of them hate humans, I won't lie. I had to kill plenty to survive in this forest."
"Well, uh… I guess I'm just friendly looking?" Yang Zhang gave out the dumbest answer, but Katarang chuckled and nodded.
"Well, that's not wrong either," Katarang smiled. "It's nice to find a friend. I've been living in the hut all alone."