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No Dice

Eri is yelling from downstairs, "Lizard! Lizard!" and I am giving a report in the middle of an online meeting with the department heads from countries all over the world as well as the CEO of our company. I casually wrap up my report and mute my Zoom feed. Thankfully there are no follow-up questions. 

When the next person began their report, who is thankfully a loquacious individual, I just as nonchalantly switched off my video feed and ran downstairs to find Eri slightly panicked. She managed to catch a lizard with Kenzo's bug catching net and had it sorta cornered halfway into the terrarium, but she couldn't quite get it from the net into the box and needed assistance. Touching the reptile was out of the question for her. I'm just impressed she went for it.

The city grass cutting guys were giving our neighborhood a midsummer shave and lizards were coming out of the woodwork. Eri actually had two cornered but one managed to get away. She wouldn't make a good bounty hunter, that's for sure. I guess if she was bounty hunter material it would drastically change the nature of our home life.

The important thing is, thanks to Eri, and then with my last-minute assistant, we caught a pretty juicy lizard. She pointed out that it’s probably a pregnant girl lizard because it looks to be full of eggs in its middle section. This could be exciting.


Later, however, I got a text that the lizard had already died and apparently it was right before Kenzo got home. 

Eri somehow got Osamu to take a nap and was outside with Kenzo most of the afternoon scouring the streets for another lizard. No dice.

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