Random Ramblings

I thought I'd overheard Bea say something about Zazu-zazu-bah being dead recently, and today, she told my mom the story in a bit more detail where I could hear more clearly what was going on. According to her, one of her other pet unicorns turned ZZB into a sheep and all the other pet unicorns into sheep and goats. Now she has no unicorns (except for babies, which apparently don't count), and ZZB is dead. I'm not quite sure how turning into a sheep equates dead, but oh well. Both the kids are quite nonchalant about it, to the point where when I started to tell Eric about it tonight, Enoch emphatically told us that she was dead, but the part he was upset about was that I was /questioning/ that fact. My kids are very strange. I would think the death of an imaginary friend would usually be upsetting, but oh well. Apparently one of the baby unicorns is ZZB's baby, so maybe she'll grow up to be like her mom. The whole thing has been so funny that I've grown rather fond of ZZB and will miss hearing about her if she is truly gone. Like in much of fiction, however, the death might not be all that permanent. The octopus she used to carry around in a box started out as an undead octopus and at some point transitioned to being a live one, so maybe we'll end up with a zombie ZZB trying to eat the brains of the various pet horses (which are still around) or something.