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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a special taster of our new

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premium only story. We hope you like it. Hey yo, Hello,

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I'm Josephine and this is the Animal Tales podcast, home

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to over four hundred and fifty stories written just for you.

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Our Friday story is especially for our Premium subscribers only.

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Olivia and Eliot are Premium members from North Carolina, U

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s A. And they would like a story with a

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chicken and a dough dough. Don't forget to listen to

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the animal facts after the story to learn more about

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these creatures. For now, it's time to sit back and

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get comfy, because it's time to begin. Island of the

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do does thunder cracked as rain pelted against the barn roof. Within,

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Olivia carefully plugged in the last few wires to her machine,

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knowing that to night was the night. Are you sure

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about this, Olivia? A concerned cow called Clover asked from

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amongst the cluster of farm animals. Olivia's friends didn't appear

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to want to get too close, I'm sure, said Olivia,

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adjusting her tool belt. To night is the night I

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get to be free like all the other birds out there.

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As a chicken Olivia had lived on the farm her

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whole life, caged in by fences. She'd always dreamt of

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the wider world where she could run free. Luckily, Olivia

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was a clever chicken. She'd sneak into the farmhouse and

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use the farmer's computer to order books about electricity and

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physics and mechanics. She'd scrounged together scrap metal from across

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the farm, and over many weeks had built her machine.

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It was a device that would take her far away

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from the farm, a teleporter. It was a round, flat

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disk for her to stand on, and she controlled it

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via a keypad that hung around her neck. She'd already

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programmed in her desired destination, an island far away from

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humans and foxes. Now she just needed electricity, and lots

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of it. Outside, lightning lit up the sky. Last chance

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to come with me, Olivia said to the other animals. No,

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thank you, said Clover, speaking for everyone watching. Olivia nodded

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and stepped onto the teleporter. A long cable ran from

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its base to a long metal rod sticking skywards upon

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the roof. The chicken checked her keypad one last time.

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Good Bye, every one, Olivia said, Wish me luck lightning cracked,

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and the barn was filled with bright, dazzling sparks, forcing

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the animals to close their eyes. When they opened them again,

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the teleporter and the chicken were gone. The chicken staggered forward,

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feeling dizzy but ecstatic. She was, without doubt, not in

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the barn any more. She was amongst tall grass, with

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a line of thick undergrowth to her left, and a

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long sandy beach and the ocean to her right. Yes,

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said Olivia with triumph. Now all she needed to do

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was explore her new home. She hid the teleporter beneath

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the undergrowth marked the spot and went to look for

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a spot to build herself a house. Unfortunately, she'd not

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walked far when she realized that she was not alone.

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The area was full of strange looking birds. They were

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bigger than her, almost triple her sighs, with gray feathers,

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small wings, and large beaks. They didn't look like any

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bird Olivia had seen before. Who are you, then, stranger,

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asked a voice, surprising her. One of the large gray

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birds had walked up behind the chicken without her noticing.

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Haven't seen you around here before, er, said Olivia, thinking quickly,

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But there didn't appear to be any danger here, So

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Olivia decided to be honest. I'm new, she said. I'm

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a Livia, I'm a chicken. A chicken. The gray bird marveled,

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never heard of a chicken before. I'm Eliot. I'm a Dodo.

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