Closed Gizmo is Gung-ho Solo

She walked through the grounds breathing in the clean air. It was chilly out, but she'd brought a warm cloak. She loved the grounds. There was just a friendly quiet about them. She was close to the forbidden forest. Away from any other people outside today.

Ahead of her she saw a little red squirrel. As she approached it ran away. She looked at the ground. It had gathered a collection of nuts for the winter. it had clearly been trying to bury them as a store for the colder months. She picked up one of the nuts and looked around for the squirrel.

She saw it again just as it leaped for her. Her friendly smile turned to shock as it jumped on her head. It almost seemed like it was screaming at her. She barely contained a scream. She quickly dropped the nut. Her hand went up to her head to try and desperately grab the squirrel, but it was already gone.

Once the crazy animal was off her head, her face turned to amusement. Soon she was full out laughing. It just seemed so ridiculous that a squirrel of all things had tried to attack her. Why? Why the heck had it thought she was deserving of punishment. All she'd done was pick up a single nut from its pile. She hadn't tried to corner it or anything like that.

She looked around and saw the squirrel glaring at her from a nearby tree. It was chittering loudly at her. She grinned and said to it "Hey... sorry man... didn't mean to make you mad" It almost seemed to give her a side-eye at that. She backed away from the nuts and sat down about a meter away. The squirrel cautiously came down from the tree and walked over to its nuts. It started picking them up and moving them somewhere else. Couldn't have someone knowing where its stash was.

It was a small red squirrel. A lot smaller than any she'd ever seen before. It clearly didn't care about its smaller size, though. Ferocious little thing. She wasn't sure what gender it was.

"You need a name little one..." She wasn't sure what to name it. What did you name a crazy squirrel? She tried to come up with some ideas. Chipper? Nibbles? Peanut? Finally she came up with it. Gizmo. It was perfect. "Hi Gizmo!" The squirrels response was to turn and glare at her.