Entry: June 22, 654 A.E

Afternoon

The Family Arrives

Two days after Little Fuzzy showed up, I came home to find he'd brought his family. Six of them total now: Little Fuzzy, who I could tell was the leader and the smart one; Mamma Fuzzy, who was clearly the matriarch; Baby Fuzzy, the youngest; and three others I named Mike, Mitzi, and Ko-Ko (the last one because of his ceremonious way of beheading land-prawns).\

Watching them interact has been educational. They have a complex social structure. They communicate with each other constantly—lots of yeeking and gesturing. They cooperate on tasks. They play together. And here's the thing that really got me thinking: they're teaching Baby Fuzzy things. That's not instinct. That's culture being passed down.

I made each of them steel chopper-diggers to replace their wooden and bone tools. You should have seen their faces when they realized what those were for! Immediate recognition, immediate understanding of how to use them. They traded their old tools without hesitation—they know a good deal when they see one.