~ Yue-Tala / Liza / Sonja / Xifeng
Tala shushed him hastily. "Stop lying and smile," she laughed, then cupped her hands around her mouth and hollered for everyone... "PHOTO TIME!"
One if her best friends and her daughter scurried over, Liza still giggling and nudging away and Sonja forcing a smile but otherwise looking a little solemn.
"That thing tried to eat my foot! It had a little pink floppy wet stretchy mouth inside its jaws and it secured itself around my ankle and-" came the complaints of a tired phoenix, just barely heard over the flap flap flapping of her wings.
"Xifeng," Sonja's little voice. broke the silence, "that was it's tongue."
"..... Oh."

