Hitty Sassy

If any of you reading this have not already read Part 1, PLEASE scroll down to Part 1 before you look at the photos in Part 2 and ruin the surprise!

First, Sassy wants to explain the word CRYPTID.

Wikipedia tells us that Cryptid is a term used to refer to a creature whose existence has been suggested, but not scientifically confirmed, including purported unknown biological organisms and extinct species claimed to be living today, i.e. the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, Yeti, Coelacanth.

Cryptozoology is the study of and search for animals found in fossil records which are considered extinct; and animals for which anecdotal evidence exists in the form of myths, legends or undocumented sightings.

Let’s resume the story!

Sassy curiously asked the Yawla Redef residents what was in the carefully wrapped package, but they only repeated that she was not to open it until she returned to the laboratory.

With a sigh, she agreed to their terms.  She asked many more questions that DID have answers, finished writing down all the pertinent information that she knew the scientists would want, picked up the bag with the hairs and the wrapped package, and headed for home.  She wondered why it had been so important to the residents of Yawla Redef that they requested a Cryptid Hunter to personally pick up the photograph they had taken.  Usually people sent their evidence in to a lab and had it processed before the Hunters even found out about it.

As soon as she got home, she headed for the science lab.  She knew that M.S. Dort had been certified by C.H.I. to analyze cryptid evidence.

Both Sassy and M.S. Dort were surprised when they unwrapped it.

The carefully opened package contained a nearly complete Sapphire Leopard skin!!!  So this was the reason the residents of Yawla Redef had requested a personal visit from a Cryptid Hunter!  It was too important to risk shipping it to C.H.I. offices via ordinary routes.  This was BIG!!

A note from the residents told that they had found it in the forest, very near the spot where Sassy found the three blue hairs.  It had died of old age!  They thought it could be important to Cryptid Hunters, so they had sent an urgent message to the C.H.I. Hotline.

Sassy had scored her first coup for the Cryptid  Hotline.  And M.S. Dort was the lucky scientist who would first study this ultra-rare find.  There would be scientific papers to write!  And lectures to deliver!  They would be famous!!

It wasn’t enough for Sassy to have made a major scientific find and have her name prominently posted in all C.H.I. offices and be lauded in the press.  No.

She ordered some fabric made to resemble the pelt and had her seamstress make a dress from it.  She could just picture herself doing a lecture tour wearing her blue and black dress.  She would stand proudly at the podium and deliver a speech about the way she had saved the hairs and skin for science!

******THE END******

P.S.  Many of you guessed correctly that TC Vollum carved Hitty Sassy!!

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