As The Water Swirls is a tightly knit community thanks to the glass walls that hold their atmosphere. Sometimes (every day), a complaint is lodged against one resident or another. Since the situations usually resolve on their own, authorities do little more than listen with disapproving frowns. So far, this hasn’t created any resentment.
In the past twelve hours, several complaints came to the authorities about the couple who live in the purple plant. Reporters interviewed surrounding residents while the authorities interrogated the two.
“He chases her and tries to bite her for most of the day,” Ezekiel, a flavescent peacock cichlid, said.
“Oh, it’s worse than that,” Chummy, a rubin red peacock cichlid, interrupted. “He’ll be kind to her just long enough for her to forget his previous abuses and fool her into getting close to him again.”
“He’s so volatile. We never know what will set him off,” Ezekiel said, pushing Chummy away from the microphone.
“She’s missing pieces of her fins!” Chummy said, giving Ezekiel a whap in the face with his tail.
Before a fight could break out between the two peacocks, reporters thanked them and rushed to speak to the authorities.
“We’re going to put the two under surveillance,” Inspector Seaweed told reporters. “This is a rough neighborhood to begin with, and it seems unfair to judge this couple on conduct that we see all of the residents display at least once a day.” He nodded towards Chummy and Ezekiel circling one another
–The Bubbly Review
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