Sys-Om

The Fishsim children had arrived at Nonsuch, after a quick visit to FaerieGlen to invite their friends to a picnic in the woods of Nonsuch. Heavily ladened with goodies they set off, they soon arrived at a spot known as Mucky Mire, due to the fact that it abounded with rather  gloopy muddy  pools. They set their belongings down and decided to explore the area. After several games of hide-go-seek, and lots of exploration they decided to return for something to eat and drink. Settling down behind some bushes they unpacked and set out all of their goodies and started to tuck in with gusto.

After much laughing and story telling they settled back for a rest, all of a sudden they heard these strange noises which were not emanating from any of their stomachs, looking at each other wide eyed they crept nearer to the bushes and peered rather cautiously over. What greeted them as they peered over was something quite comical and strange, a green creature with eyes on stalks was sitting quite blissfully in the centre of one of the pools humming away quite merrily to itself. They quickly sat back down in amazement.

It was decided that they would approach the creature together and slowly, for fear of scaring it, or better still themselves. Slowly approaching and sticking quite close to each other they called out " Hello ", in a flash the creature vanished, leaving the Fishsim children wondering what to do next. Slowly two stalks could be seen emerging from the pool, they stood very still, the creature emerged a fraction more, once again the Fishsim children said " Hello ". Instead of disappearing the creature, eyes swivelling wildly said " Hello " back, and introduced itself.

"I am known as Sys-Om ", it replied, this broke the ice and chatter began in earnest, they learned that Sys-Om and others like him inhabited some of the larger pools and were very rarely seen. The Fishsim children truly had made an astonishing discovery, it appeared also that Sys-Om had a great sense of humour and they were soon doubled up with laughter at this rather comical creature. Sys-Om asked them if they would like to come in and join him, the children didn't need asking twice, stripping off they jumped in amidst peels of laughter.

What a sight they all looked, covered in mud from head to toe, this would take a lot of explaining when they returned, but for now they were having too much fun to worry about that, Sys-Om carried on amusing the children with stories and jokes, tears of laughter leaving white streaks down  the Fishsim children's faces making them look even more comical. Eventually they had to say good-bye to Sys-Om but promised to return as often as they could, Sys-Om said he looked forward to seeing them all again soon, and how much he had enjoyed meeting them all.

The Fishsim children packed up their belongings and waved farewell to Sys-Om. On their return home their parents looked on in disbelief at the state of them all, after allowing them all time for an explanation, to which the parents were amazed at the story of the meeting with Sys-Om they were duly bundled off to their respective homes and a good soak in the bath...

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