Richard

4

Some forests are perfectly calm and serene, just like some people have all the luck with where they live. Unfortunately you are not one of these lucky people. Many years ago a wise wizard taught you, a freshly hatched Athenian owl the art of speach. You were thankful then, now however is a different story. Your forest has become somewhat of a hotspot for the supernatural, so much so that you had to flee more than once from people who believed you to be someone who was cursed. In your humble opinion being mistaken for human is a grave insult, the witch that lives down by the river even agrees. So unfortunately you have a reputation, which means that this princeling who absolutely insists at making making noises at you is not going to go away anytime soon.

Atticus

2

You are a squirrel and you have big plans. You see you observed that the humans who come into your forest, especially the ones with the shiny headwear and big, white horses, tend to talk to your neighbors, tend to spend at least a night, but they bring their own food. So your big plans. If they can spare the time to hunt for the wise owl they can spare a nut or two (or a bag or three) for you. You would make it easier for them to find your even. You are not even picky, once you brurried a shiny blue nut, that you couldn't eat, that came from a shiny headwear that humans are so fond of and that grew a tree, too. So it's not that much to ask that humans play for your help with something that you (or your friends) can eat after it's buried and grown into a tree. Really humans are the weird ones, for going so crazy over these hard blue nuts they call sapphires and not eat. You can even speak occasionally, there is a pond that let's you do that if you drink from it, so the stubborn humans have no excuse. Madam Goose once told you that you might communicate exclusively in rude words while speaking human, but that is a human issue. And to make sure that the humans notice you and pay for your help with nuts, Mr. Raven claims your plan is either a border toll or straight up highway robbery without explaining what that means, you have devised the me7ans to make them notice you. See, after observing them you noticed that humans enter your forest by certain trees, you approve of the is chose as oaks are nice trees to sleep in. So you lie in wait with your rocks. If one approaches without your nuts you throw your rocks at them until they notice you and deposit the nuts on the indicated area, which Madam Goose helped you make. The human that draws near is a really old one, you don't see many of them that have hair in their faces long enough to braid. Carefully you lift your rock and aim.

April

1

You are a goose and you have the biggest pond with the best fish around. In waterfowl terms you have it made. There is only one problem with your real-estate : it talkes and with the way Betty from down in the city keeps chattering that is not normal for ponds, nor a desireable quality in them. You agree for the most part, the constant mumbling is grating on your nerves, but on the other hand it keeps the humans away that keep eyeing you in the winter. Sometimes you can mumble like your pond too, if you drank the water, but only for a time and then you are back to your quacks. You rather not end up like that owl you heard about. So you have a great life, if one disregards your pond that informs humans that draw near that it will turn them into deer, hares and the like if they drink from it. Most humans look at the pond weirdly and then look at you as if you are even weirder for paddling in it. But honestly you don't know what the fuss is about, the fish sparkle nicely and you have always stopped making humans noises, so you don't see what the problem is for the humans. Until one day a pair of small humans comes to your pond. Your pond of course starts it spiel. Seriously why can't your pond shut up for once?

Joshua

1

You know a few people, ordinary ones, that come into your magical forest for business like lumber and hunting. One of the is Joshua, you are not quite sure what he does, sometimes he picks what he calls 'herbs', sometimes he helps with the lumber, so you have come to the conclusion that even for humans he is weird. So as he stops before your tree and knocks on the wood you don't think it that out of the ordinary. "Excuse me, wise owl. Oh, this is so weird, if you are just an owl and I am wrong. Anyway could you, err, turn back if you can? I mean this conversation would be easier in human form right?" You tilt your head and hoot, but descend to a branch level with his head. Joshua helped your neighbor Mr. Squirrel once with his nuts so you owe it to him to at least hear him out. You fluff up your feathers and beginn to speak, making a production out of it, because humans can be weird about it if you don't. "Go on I am listening. Why have you disturbed my sleep?" The sun is high in the sky, so it is much to early for you.