(Meanwhile Chibimon has applied its arms to picking up the tiny red blob.)

"THERE'S SO MANY THINGS," it announces, rolling off Elecmon's head to wiggle delightedly on the ground. "I'M GONNA BITE THEM."

Elecmon chuckles. "You're gonna go far, kid," he says, giving the red creature a little pat on the head top. "Just pay attention to what you'll be glad you bit and what you'll regret biting."

(The green blob is attempting to climb Chibimon towards where the little red blob is held, without much success.)

It is so impressed with the wisdom of Elecmon's advice. There ARE some things that are rewarding to bite and others that are less so! This is important and useful information which resonates with the creature's experience of the world!

It flops on its side in the grass for a bit, tired out by all that wiggling, then rolls up onto its feet and observes the green blob's climbing attempts. Hey! Maybe it could help! Or MAYBE... it could BITE THE BLUE CREATURE.

Help? Or bite? Bite? Or help?

Wait, hang on, it knows this one! If you're confused about whether or not you want to bite something... you LICK it!

Slorp!

Chibimon is licked! It has a scaly texture with a bit of fresh hot marshmallow flavor.

It responds by swinging the teeny red blob at the creature, bopping it. It doesn't hurt the red creature much.

But the teeny blob cries out, "Puuunii! 😥"

The teeny blob made SAD SOUNDS.

The creature pauses, taken aback.

Does it like the sad sounds? They feel nice to hear. But it also feels a different feeling, a more complicated one, harder to pin down.

Confused and unsettled, it sits still for a moment, trying to process this development. What is this new feeling made of? How should it respond? There are so many actions it could take! It can jump and hop and roll and wiggle and flap its ears and lick things and bop things and smush its face on things and... and...

Aha!

The feeling makes it want to BITE THE BLUE CREATURE AFTER ALL!

It promptly does that.

The red creature can bite into Chibimon's leg. The toasty blue scales don't immediately yield a take-home bite, but that leaves possibilities like staying latched on, or letting go and trying again.

MORE BITE

This second, stronger bite ("Hot Bite!") not only bites into Chibimon but also singes it, tearing through with a sizzle. The red creature gets a good mouthful of toasty hot marshmallow dragon leg.

While Chibimon is distracted limping from that, the green blob

transforms ("Mochimon!"), grabs the teeny red blob,

and transforms back, the little red blob floating on top.

SUCCESS.

The red creature bops its nose against the green blob in triumph. Then it attempts to copy Elecmon's 'making it easier for creatures to climb onto or off of my head' pose.

Ascent!

Good!!!

Now the red creature can BRING ITS FRIENDS as it immediately charges for the nearest biteable plant.

(Chibimon hops off toward a different biteable plant.)

Charge! The green blob wobbles a bit, but manages to keep both itself and the red one on.

This particular biteable plant has strong gray-brown woody parts, thin red-brown viney parts, green leafy parts, and dangling clusters of round purple parts.

That's SO MANY PARTS. And they are ALL BITEABLE.

It tries the green parts first, because they are the same colour as grass, which it has bitten before. No need to get TOO adventurous straight away.

The green parts taste leafy and tangy, with a slight electric thrum in your muscles.

(The green blob leans forward to see what it can taste from its perch.)

NEXT it will bite the WOODY PARTS.

The woody parts are tougher and taste somewhat bland and stale, but with a little overtone of standing tall and strong and immovable.

(The teeny red blob takes advantage of its elevation to sit in a corner of two woody parts and nibble leaves from there.)

It LIKES the woody parts. It bites them AGAIN.

Then it tries the viney parts!