Seria<br/>16<br/><span style="font-style: italic">http://www.switchbladecomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/katy_perry.jpg</span><br/><br/>Seria walked quietly though the jungle listening to everything around her. For once it was quite, she had left the other members of the expedition behind her. Every single new they saw, the others felt the need to gush and examine, Seria was perfectly content to look at everything quietly and revel in the wonders of the jungle. So, she had ditched them about an hour before. She wondered if she would ever find them again, even if she had enough survival skills to be able to survive for a long time on her own, which would hopefully be long enough to get out of here. She knew the others hadnâ€™t even wanted to bring her along because of her young age but she had insisted. It was a great experience, plus when she was kid she had made a habit out of playing in the jungle near her home. Now that jungle was gone, and since this was one of the few remaining ones she had decided to make sure she got a spot on this expedition.<br/>Since Seria had grown up exploring the jungle near her home she knew almost all of the species that thrived deep within its depths. When she was young she had spent a lot of time in trees watching animals that came to the small river and sketching them. But sheâ€™d had her fair share of mishaps, sheâ€™d been attacked by animals that had smelled her, eaten bad fruit that had caused her to be sick for days, and on more then one occasion she had fallen out of the tree she was in and broken a bone. Her parents had not only approved of her explorations, but they had encouraged her to continue exploring. They werenâ€™t pleased when she came home with injuries or when she got sick eating things there, but they figured that it was best to let her do as she pleased when it came to something she was determined to do.<br/>Then came the day they had to move. Seria had been furious, but her parents didnâ€™t have a choice they had been reassigned to another location to study the ocean, but Seria had never loved the ocean the way she had the jungle. Mostly because she couldnâ€™t see 90% of the ocean, and she wasnâ€™t authorized to go with her parents.<br/>Seria was ripped from her thoughts by the sound of something snapping, that somehow stood out from all the other sounds. She froze for a moment and looked around slowly wondering what had made the sound.