A young yet strikingly tall girl around the age of 14 frantically ran down the streets, dragging a large wheeled mechanism - or a 'bike', as it's creator labeled it - behind her. At a glance, she was wearing a hastily-made helmet composed of an elastic band and something unidentifyable, a white t-shirt and loose dark gray shorts combo and sported chocolate brown hair tied up into a near-shoulder length ponytail with spiked bangs shading her right eye, which was pale yellow and subtly wolf-like, her left eye no different. "Mika", they called her, or "Scatterbrain" among the long list of people unfortunate enough to talk to her.
The girl hopped between opposite sides of the streets and checked under every stand and in every corner, obviously searching for something. GAH! Where could that pesky lizard have gone now? She could've sworn that she had him on her shoulder the entire time, but all of a sudden, poof! He disappeared. Just like that. Maybe somebody randomly shouted "KITTEN EYEBALL EXPLOSION" and his brain imploded causing him to turn into a magic turtle heron and fly, fly away, who knows. Dagnabbit, she'd already been through this street! This is the one with the crazy historian guy in the smelly hat. He makes learning fun.
Out of the blue, Mika spotted a young man leaning against the walls of an alley to her left eating a juicy-looking apple. Mika wasn't sure, but there was something different about him. Something heart-warmingly familiar, and yet unnervingly alien. For the moment, Mika dismissed it as her slipping into a hunger-induced trance and called out to him. "Hey, you! With the red hair!" she half-shouted. "You seen a big, fat, sandy-colored lizard around here? I've searched this place up and down and I can't find him anywhere!" Mika didn't realize it at the time, but it seemed pretty rude to just up and ask him without a prior introduction or anything. But hey, she'd do anything to get Leopold back, even eat a baby chicken. A LIVE baby chicken. In public. With salt. Infront of it's mother. Okay, she wasn't THAT determined to get him back, but she was damn close.