'Stupid school policy.' Charlene thought as she stared down at the runners. Like a lot of furs, well in her case reptile, she preferred to walk barefoot and feel the cool soil under her feet. However school policy stated that it was mandatory that all students had to wear footwear whether they liked it or not. Charlene definitely did not like it. At least the runners were broken in enough to make them comfortable.
She slipped one runner on, and then began to slip her foot in the other.
For Jon, it was a sight that was both awe inspiring and terrifying. Towering above him was a female dinosaur of the order ceratopsidae* She was looking down but not seeing him. He saw her lift a thick leg and heard the sound of scaly flesh rub against cloth as she slipped her foot into her left runner. Then the underside of a three toed foot filled his vision as she began to repeat the process with the runner he was in. Jon started to run. It was futile of course. He was far too small now and too slow compared to the wall of flesh bearing down on him. The foot caught him and pushed forward. It almost rolled over him. But when it finally stopped, he was laying face first in the worn insole and the foot was above. His life had been spared only by luck as he was in the empty space between toe and the ball of the foot.
Then his world went up, sideways, and down. The down was the worst as it ended with a bone jarring THUD. Over an over again as she walked to her classroom.
Charlene walked into her history class and sat in the only desk designed to accumulate her wider body and thick tail. She was a bit self conscious about her size, but considering her species and the fact that there were several other species bigger than she was, she was rarely picked on for it. When she was, she was always quick to defend herself with a witty comeback. Today, the teacher was giving a boring lecture. He had even said it before class started as a warning, "This is going to be a bit boring, but I have to give it." She tried to pay attention, but after awhile her attention turned to an unexpected development in her right runner.
Charlene began to notice a tingling sensation from under her toes, had a bug crawled into her runner? She was impressed it survived the walk to History class. She normally would've stomped her foot, but at that moment the "Bug" in her runner was more interesting than the lecture being said.
*(which included the triceratops and pachyrhinosaurus and bagaceratops).
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