If you have ever traveled along the highways of the Basin of Life, then you have probably seen me or one of my kind. Not for very long, of course. We make it a point to get out of sight as quickly as possible. If you were us, you would do the same! After all, we are extremely delicious and with as many predators who would love to turn me into a meal, it would be foolish for me to sit around in the middle of the road. Never mind the dangers of being stepped on by travelers.

So, since you probably haven't gotten a good look at me before, I'll describe myself a bit. I'm about one and a half human feet in length from nose to tail and I'm covered in fur. Now my own fur is sort of russet colored, but some of my kind have brown fur and some can even be grey. Our fur is very thick and luxurious though, which is another reason to avoid sticking around too much. Two-legged types seem to like to skin things with nice fur and I like my skin attached to me, thank you very much! My fur sheds in the warm months and thickens in the cold months, allowing me to remain active year round.

Anyway, back to what I look like. My tail is bushy and darker than the rest of my fur, as are my feet. I have long, thick claws on my front feet, which are used for burrowing and digging for roots, which I supplement my diet of bugs and small lizards with. Yes, I am an omnivore and my teeth reflect this. Since I do most of my hunting at night, my eyes are very large. Because I spend so much time underground, I even have two sets of eyelids. One of them is transparent and protects my eyes from the dirt. The fact that my kind enjoys a varied diet of plants –and- animals means that we can live in a variety of environments, which is why we're seen all over the way we are.

Now that you've got an idea what I look like, and even some of my habits, I'm sure you're wondering why exactly I keep darting across the road. Well, first, maybe I wonder why your two-legged types built a road right where I want to go. Ever think of that? Probably not. People. Centers of your own universes, aren't you?

But, if you must know, my kind likes to keep several burrows and move between them several times a day. I'll sleep in one for a short span of time, and then, I'll move to another and sleep there a while. Then, I'll move again. Why all this moving around, you ask? Well, like I said, I am very delicious. My meat is both tender and succulent. All manner of beasts would love to get a hold of one of my kind, so we are very paranoid. We like to move around. Not stay in one place for too long. And, having burrows on opposite sides of your roads is actually helpful because our scent gets dispersed a bit on the busy highway. It's harder to track us on the stone too. Of course, it leaves us open to bird predation or being squished while crossing, but that's why we go so fast. Now, before you misunderstand, we don't set out to have our burrows by roads necessarily. Plenty of us live in the middle of forests or deserts or pretty much anywhere except swamps – you try building a burrow in a swamp. Here's a hint: It floods! But, anyway, when a road cuts across where we have our burrows set up, we're gonna be darting across the road.

You might wonder how that works when it comes to rearing our young. And that would make you nosy, wouldn't it? But just so you know, we're marsupials. We have pouches we carry our young with us in where ever we go. Even more reason to be quick, isn't it? After all, if I get caught, it's not just me being eaten, it's the two to three babies I'll be carrying with me at any given time. And I'm constantly pregnant or carrying young. We reproduce a lot. I would say like rabbits, but rabbits like to say they reproduce like us, so that should tell you something. Why do you think you see so many of my kind despite how paranoid we are?

Why so much reproduction? Because we are so delicious! It all comes back to being delicious, really. So many things like to eat us that if we didn't reproduce so much we'd die out! So, we are driven to breed constantly, which is another reason we cross the road so much; the constant search for mates we aren't already related to.

So, in summary: I am a very delicious marsupial with a varied diet of bugs, lizards and roots who has a whole plethora of natural enemies, such as snakes, wolves, bigger lizards, raptors, and two-legged types (if you could catch us, you're all so slow!). I live mainly underground, with several burrows which are often located on different sides of your highways. We reproduce constantly and we do not hibernate in the winter and can live pretty much anywhere we want.

Now, I'm off to find something to eat and possibly a mate. My last batch of young are nearly grown, after all. If you have anything else you'd like to know about me, find me again and ask. If you can catch me! And before you ask, no. I didn't write this myself. I don't have any thumbs, how am I supposed to write? Come on man, think! But this faeling girl is being very obliging in transcribing my words. Yeah, words. And no, I don't speak. My vocalizations are more like squeaky chitterings that probably make no sense to the ears of people. But she's really, really, really high right now, and actually this is all just happening in her head.