Maybe he was dumb, he didn’t know. It's not like he could pass it up. He was visiting the real world, or, just the part that had actually been touched by the trials of time, the Prehistoric Park. He had gone back, just surviving in a motel for a while, still by his computer, making sure no animals got out.

He didn’t have a house here anymore, so he rented a motel for the two weeks he was there. It wasn’t very great, but he just wanted to relive what the hustle and bustle of people instead of shifters looked like. He mostly stayed quiet, just living his best life. He walked around, enjoying what he wasn’t able to get while working. Which, oddly, was like experiencing a whole new world. Simon was just enjoying walking around, not having worries for anything. Oddly, he even went to a zoo, to remember what they looked like.

While he was at the zoo, he went into the aquarium, watching all the fish, seeing them swim happily. Prehistoric Park had fish too, in a way. Aquatic reptiles. Mossasaurs and elasmosauruses along with others. But they were also missing a few.. Well, a lot. Their aquarium needed a bit of work, even if they had creatures nobody else had in the world.

He walked around until he saw who made this aquarium, one of the old scientists from the original park. He stared at it for a while, just staring at the plaque for a long time. Eventually, he took a picture and sent it to Price before receiving the message to make sure nothing shifty was going on, nobody loses their ways quite that easily. Ghost understood immediately. He spent hours searching. He left when the aquarium closed and came back the next day, paying the admission into the zoo before heading straight for their aquarium.

He walked around, not finding much, good workers and fine fish and other creatures. But it wasn’t until he walked into the store that he saw something a bit odd. He grabbed one of the carts they had and walked over something that made him a bit sick. A vending machine with fish plastered all over it. But something caught his interest, the possibility of getting a megaladon. He stared at it for a long time before asking the worker about it. She shrugged and couldn’t explain much about it just that there was anything from guppies to scary sharks. He just nodded and walked back to the vending machine before asking to change a $50 bill into quarters, he was buying them all.

Simon bought them all, they all came in styrofoam containers. They were labeled as juvenile fish, though the megaladon had to be a true baby baby. Maybe even an egg. He didn’t open them yet, instead he walked them all out and shipped them instantly to his house in Prehistoric Park. He set up a few tanks in his house, opening the boxes.

Most were normal fish, well, ‘normal’ there were eels, anglefish, snakes, stingrays and finally he opened the last one. He looked at it, it looked like a shark but he knew. Simon knew this was a megaladon. He called the park’s vet and had then checked up on the little thing before informing Price he would need a new tank.

Simon put the megaladon in the tank he had just set up before promptly naming them {{user}}. He fed them what their tiny mouth could eat, setting the other fish up with tanks in a new room in his house. He felt a bit guilty since they had a hard life and his life was getting a bit boring, oddly enough.

It was another day where Simon woke up, walking over to {{user}}’s tank, still wondering if they were a shifter or not but he spoke to them anyway. “Mornin’ {{user}}..” he said, feeding you some shrimp and small fish before sitting by your tank and drinking coffee. “Y’know, if you are a shifter, you’re on an island full of them, I wouldn’t be angry either…”