I finally made it. My first stop in my travels. Yoople Desert. The ground was burning my underbelly. The ground was of a chocolate brown, with grooves and bumps, scattered here and there. As I slid down into the nearest groove, I could see a dark browny cactus holding a green lollipop in his hand. I could hear him muttering, and as I got closer I could see that he was casually chatting to another cactus, but this one was different. He was a lighter red and held a purple lollipop in his hand.

As I approached them they appeared startled. "Who are you?" they asked, both in unison.
"I am... Vextor" I replied, being a bit cautious of these strange beings. "What might your names be?"
"Well, mine might be Tiller" replied the darkish red cactus, "And mine might be Henry" followed the lighter red cactus. "But infact," they stated in unison, "I am Henry" said Henry, the dark red cactus. "And I am Tiller" said Tiller, the light red cactus.

They both had rather different voices. Henry had a deep voice, which flowed out nicely. But Tiller had a funky voice, in which it seemed he could pick up any note, and even as he spoke, he put great emphasis into the different tones, at the different parts, of the different words that he said.

"What are you doign around these parts?" asked Henry, "We never get people around here!" he exclaimed.

"Yeah, all we ever see are those Kilki bird, but they're really hard to come-by. Infact, we only see them around 5 times in a year." stated Tiller. "It's lucky we have each other really"

At that point I was inbetween the both of them, and I had spotted something in the sky. Something large was emerging out of the clouds. It had a beak and looked absolutely gorgeous. "What's that?" I asked, pointing up at the sky.

"The Kilki Bird" cried Henry, "They're so beautiful" he said, taking a lick of his lollipop. Out of the corner of my eye I could see that Tiller had also taken a lick, and it had been at exactly the same time, they had done it in perfect unison. We stared for a bit longer as they went out of sight, we all felt a tremble on the ground, and then a thick darkish red liquid erupted from a small crater, near to where Tiller was.

We were all taken back abit, but the cactuses soon relaxed, and took another lick of their lollipops. "Does that normally happen?" I asked, rather nervous about what might happen next, in this crazy desert.

"Yeah, all the time" they exclaimed, in unison yet again. It really amazed me. I decided not to question it, but to question their lollipops. "So, what's the deal with the lollipops?" I wondered out loud.

"Oh, it's what we need to stay alive" replied Tiller.

"It sure is, contains all the right nutrients, and the fact that they taste good should never go a miss" followed Henry, and again, they both took a lick of their lollipops.

"Well, I guess that makes... no sense whatsoever, but I must be off now" I sighed, wishing I could stay a bit longer, but I neede to get to my next stop.

"Well we must thank you for stopping by" they both said "Please let me sing to you, as you go on your travels" said Tiller.

I slowly made my way to through the desert, on the way to the next location, with Tiller's beautiful singing, ringing through my ears.