Your parents gesture for Leonard to lean forward, and his cavernous feline ear tilts behind them. You cannot hear what they are whispering, but Leonard amazingly can, and his nodding his head. Leonard tells your parents, "Well, we all knew that this day would come."
"Listen, Jake, I guess your old enough now to realize that Leonard is not your real brother," spoke your mother seriously. "I think it's time for us to tell you the truth about Leonard."
Even though the fact that you have a fifty mile sibling is unbelievable, Leonard's story is even more fantastic. Six years before you were born, your parents found a cradle on their doorstep with an anthropomorphic lion cub sleeping inside. Your parents had never seen an anthro before, and indeed nobody else on Earth had either. Your parents took in the cub as their own as they always wanted children.
Leonard grew at an alarming rate, both in terms of size and development. In only a week he was taller than your parents and able to walk on two legs. In one month he nearly outgrew the house and could speak in complete sentences. By three months he could lift the house and could support himself. By this time people all over the world were aware of Leonard's existence. Nobody knew where he came from or why he was growing so fast, but Leonard was so gentle and friendly that nobody feared him.
When Leonard became four years old the government forced his family to move to a large uninhabited island in the Pacific, since it was getting dangerous to keep him near so much civilization. People continued to visit the island and Leonard's family, and eventually a port town sprang up, but the rest of the island still remained uninhabited to support Leonard's continuous growth.
"And you know the rest, bro," spoke Leonard, even though you really don't know the rest. There is one question on your mind. "If Leonard's twenty years old, that means he's done growing, right?" Your father replies...
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