'Evening' 3
"Well," suggested an inventive termite, "I'd wager that the reason Giggles didn't ever come back was because he couldn't see where he was going. Because all the water got in his eyes, you see? And that's where these come in."
The termite was grasping in its feelers a pair of transparent eye-protectors. "You put these on, the sea water won't go in your eyes, and so you'll be able to swim for land. Genius!"
"Where did you get the material?" inquired an onlooker.
"Oh, the transparent stuff? Yeah, turns out I grew some wings at some point. I figured that the best use for those, in this situation, was obviously 'raw materials for crazy invention'. Hurt like stink-bugs getting those little suckers outta there, though!"
"Well, of course. So what are you planning to call this thingy?"
"Ah, now, I was thinking, since I am the inventor," replied Goggles, "that I should name them after my very dear friend, Doodles." In response to the blank stare, he added, "the guy we lynched last time."
"Right, he was great, wasn't he?" sighed the onlooker, wistfully. A thought suddenly flashed to the front of his tiny mind: "Oh bedbugs! We were so busy... not eating... that we forgot to choose someone to lynch today!"
"Cockroaches," swore another. "Ehh, let's just say we're lynching Goggles, since he's so eager to show off his new Doodles anyway. Good luck, Goggles!"
Goggles, now fully Doodled up and ready to tackle the unforgiving sea, performed a complex military salute/sailor's jig with four of his six legs. He put his head down and took a deep breath of the salty sea air. That music from all the war films started to play, you know, the one where the pilot's about to take off and have like a million dogfights above enemy lines and it's like whoa, awesome. Then, he ran as fast as he could towards the port bow, and a few minutes later, took a flying leap off the side and into the swell that had once claimed Giggles.
The other termites watched him go with admiration. They all agreed: they couldn't wait for Goggles to come back.
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Final vote tally for Day 3:
It is now NIGHT!
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