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 Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:32 am
Cue experienced a white-hot pressure behind her eyes as her mind, unable to process this sheer insanity, imploded. It took a good while - she'd actually had to stop in her tracks - before she could gather up enough disbelief (seasoned with consternation, and, more importantly, contempt) to embody her feelings with a single, heartfelt, "WHAT?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:37 am
In her mind, that one adorably embarrassed and angry "WHAT" meant that dear Auntie Fade had hit the sweet spot of a young girl's heart. "How romantic!!" she enthused in the face of Cue's bewilderment. "How flustered you are now, aw!" She inched a little closer and winked. "So now tell me, tell me what do you like about him?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:58 am
"But I don't like anything about him!" she said, and mixed in with her exasperation was real bewilderment, "didn't you hear me complaining the entire way?!"
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:59 am
"Oh come on now, you know you don't have to deny anything with Auntie Fade," she almost crooned, now thoroughly convinced that her hoof was clearly in the mouth of the cave and she had shoved her way unceremoneously but completely into the Right Place, "much less your...feeeeeeelings for a Kiokote..."
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:59 am
The dam burst. "I'M NOT DENYING ANYTHI -"
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:59 am
"Hang on," Fade said, head whipping to the right and the left as she put Cue's horror on hold. "Where's Soup?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:59 am
Indeed, the turtle had disappeared. Shoving her ANGRY VOICE back into her simmering annoyance, Cue followed Fade's lead in rustling around in the dense brush that surrounded them for some sign of the pet. In the very least, he couldn't have gone far.
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:01 am
"But seriously now sweetie," she said, ducking her head into a bunch of nearby weeds, "tell me what you like about him, ay?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:01 am
The ANGRY VOICE came halfway back. "SERIOUSLY?! I can't stand him and he can't stand me, okay? OKAY?! There is NOTHING. NOTHING between us."
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:03 am
"Awww don't worry," her head emerged just to give Cue a chipper, reassuring (or so she thought) grin. "I'm sure he likes you."
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:03 am
"I'm sure he doesn't," she said, in disbelief that this conversation was still even continuing, "and I don't care whether or not he does!"
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:05 am
Her neck stayed upright, and the grin remained. "Well why are you so upset then?" She asked, her eyes swivelling to track her sulky movements.
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:06 am
"I'm not upset! And even if I were, it wouldn't be about something as ridiculous as that."
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:13 am
"Okay," Fade blinked and raised her scaled eyebrow, wandering into another patch. "Then why are you so upset?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:13 am
"I'm not," she said sulkily as she kicked through the grass in search of that stupid animal - and abruptly changed the subject, "Swampmother, I'm never keeping a pet, or a child, or anything that you have to run after anytime, ever. I can't believe we're doing this."
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