A personal history tale
She introduced herself as Monique the iguana. Well the first weeks where difficult, but me and my lady soon understood that Monique was going to be a great and peaceful neighbor. She is a vegetarian, so there was no complications about the food we get. She's was about 60 cm long when she arrived into our lives and has grown another 30 cm. Reinier says she's going to become 150 cm. She's not so tame as we are, Reinier still talks a lot to her when he is cleaning our house but things are starting to get better, she now even goes with him downstairs when he's taking a coffee break.
But I knowing Reinier best saw the look in his eyes, when he looked at our old house and I understood immediately that we should be expecting more visitors in the future. Well I knew my guess was correct when Reinier started giving our old house a fresh paint job and redecorating it. A week after that, he explained to me that he wanted to wait that long because he wanted to be sure that the creatures he was about to buy, where the right choice. Well I said you could never know. And one day when he went away to get fresh food for us he came home with this small container. Inside the three of us saw small creatures moving. They are also green like us but they where still babies.
They are called Grazzt and Viola. Grazzt being the male is going to grow 2 crests on his head. Viola the female is going to grow only one. Things didnt work out well, Reinier had to separate the two of them because Grazzt was eating all the food. Viola moved to the small house in which I once came to Reinier. Now Grazzt is moving around in our house and Viola shares the old house with another creature Reinier obtained. Grazzt is very funny, being a basilisk, thinking that he's impressive. He's head bobbing a lot to my lady and Monique, but if I get tired I show him my crest and he runs to the swimming pool. Reinier is a little concerned because he realizes that when Grazzt becomes mature, he and I might go to blows some time, so he's waiting for Viola to become big enough so that she and Grazzt might be reunited.
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