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Kelly and Olive are eyesight was fuzzy so she couldn't make out the exact shape,

but she was pretty sure they were leaves. Above, Mona saw the endless pale blue sky.

Her eyes registered the rays of light that bounced off her leaf, making it glow.

All around, she could hear birds chirping happily, and bees buzzing merrily as they pollinated

the flowering plants. Mona's stomach began to rumble. Instinctively, she turned to the egg

casing that she had just emerged from, and started to munch on it. The crunchy yellow shell

was filled with nutrients, as it wasn't enough to fill her stomach.

As soon as she finished her egg casing, Mona began eating the milkweed plant she was sitting on.

The oval leaf was covered in lime green veins. It was thick, and when she bit into it,

milky sap began to spill out. The thick, gooey substance stripped down the leaf in beads.

Mona ate the leaf while crawling in a circle, careful not to step in the growing pool of sticky sap.

The milkweed leaf tasted delicious. She enjoyed how each leaf looked the same,

but up close, they were all slightly different. It made for an interesting meal,

which was good because Mona was awfully hungry. She consumed leaf after leaf,

traveling in a spiral up the milkweed plant and nibbling holes in the leaves as she went.

After a few short days had passed, Mona finally began to feel full. She felt herself wanting to

slow down, and noticed a slight pressure, not in her tummy, but on her skin. It felt similar

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