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Santharia: Quest for the Flitter-Twitch Butterfly

By Seeker

You decide you better remind yourself what you are getting paid to find.  Reaching into your pocket you pull out the description of the Flitter-Twitch Butterfly given to you by the Zoo Guy.  Unfolding the parchment you begin to read....

"If any insect could possibly be considered cute, it would be the Flitter-Twitch Butterfly. And if any insect could be considered absolutely obnoxious, it would also be the Flitter-Twitch Butterfly. Of course, one would have to find and catch the crazy bug first. However, whether or not someone were to actually manage to get their hands on one, the most noticeable thing about this butterfly is its size. It isn't that it is of any particularly impressive proportions, quite the opposite. It is simply that this insect is so very small. So small, in fact, that one would be hard pressed to actually notice it at all, if it weren't for their spastic nature.

Despite its small size, its strong back supports two sets of thin wings on each side of its short, stubby body. It is assumed that the extra set of wings that this butterfly sports is the reason behind their erratic flight patterns, as well as their speed. One wing usually consists of two parts, the fore wing and the hind wing, which are both usually a fat oval in shape. The insect is most commonly found in different shades of pastel blues with pink and/or green dots speckling the crest of its wings.

The Flitter-Twitch's head is big compared to the rest of its body and two large eyes, one of each situated on either side. The eyes, to put it simply, are huge. The head, which is actually a thin oval shape, looks round due to the insect's bulbous eyes. Though it has eyes of nearly ridiculous proportions, it could be argued that the insect might as well be blind since it spends so much of its time ramming into things. The eyes are always a glossy light blue color. Its antennae, which sit directly above its eyes, are usually a mere nailsbreadth in length and are shaped much like thin clubs. Its black proboscis, which extends from just below the butterfly's eyes, curls tightly under its chin.

The insect's body is short and stubby and usually is about three nailsbreadths in length. Its body, no matter the color of its wings, is always covered with a very fluffy green fur, which varies in shade. Like most butterflies, this one has six legs. Two forelegs and four hind legs. However, it is not unusual to see one that is missing one or more limbs. After all, one can't possibly expect to be constantly ramming into things without some sort of injury to show. The fine hairs that coat the bottom half of this insect's legs are either green or pink depending upon the butterfly's gender, the former belonging to the females and the latter belonging to the males. Though, unlike most butterflies, the males and females are indistinguishable from each other by any other visual means."