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[hairflyingheartpounding]

Mun? Hello, yes, it's me.

Um... Alright, look, I really don't think this is a good idea. I know you have a lot of doubts about it, too, and... This time? I think you should listen to those doubts.

You can't just take me from the middle of a great adventure and make me part of a family. Especially not if I'm going to be a kid. I'm eighteen now, and I've--

No, I'm not saying I want to suddenly have a stranger for a husband, but...

[Sigh.]

Fine. If you won't listen... I won't let you. If I could handle Eugene, I bet I can handle you, too.

Comments

[cheese_for_everyone]

My condolences. I would hate to be put in a place like that. With my powers stripped and all that ORDER. I think I would go crazier than usual!

[hairflyingheartpounding]

I'm more upset about what I won't get to be doing back home...

[cheese_for_everyone]

Well when you get sent back you'll get to start that up again. It will be like you never even left.

[hairflyingheartpounding]

If I get sent back.

[iwillstop_theworld]

The change wasn't so bad for me.

Then again, I can't imagine what it's like for someone who actually has something to lose.

[hairflyingheartpounding]

It wasn't?

[Oh wait...]

Why didn't you have anything to lose?

[iwillstop_theworld]

It's a...long story.

Anyway, if you end up going to high school at Mayfield, you'll probably have me as your chem teacher, once my mun gets around to giving me that official job.

[hairflyingheartpounding]

Oh. Alright. Well, I have time, if you want to talk.

I shouldn't be in a high school, though, but... It might be interesting.

Chem?

[legendary_taunt]

[Suddenly, Pink Man!]

Say, aren't you Barney Stinson? Your show is like the best thing out there!

[Have a thumbs up. A MIGHTY thumbs up!]

[truffulacide]

[hm, this sounds familiar...]

Please don't tell me the place she's sending you to starts with an M and rhymes with "Baybeald".

[hairflyingheartpounding]

Did your mun send you there?

[iwillstop_theworld]

Thanks, but...I'm sure it's a story you'd rather not hear.

Yeah, chemistry. It's a kind of science. Science is...kind of what I do.

[hairflyingheartpounding]

How can you be sure?

Oh! Science is so amazing!

SCREAM IRL

[iwillstop_theworld]

_{[What the--]}

I...I think you're mistaken. You've, uh. Got the wrong person. I'm...I'm Billy. I don't know any Barney.

[truffulacide]

Not yet, but she's going to. It looks like a dump, and I bet it smells like one too considering that no one drinks the milk.

[hairflyingheartpounding]

I guess we're in the same boat, then.

My name's Rapunzel.

[iwillstop_theworld]

Just...drop it, okay?

Yeah. The best thing is that science is predictable. Science makes sense. Science is always the same.

I like that.

[truffulacide]

Just two kids waiting for the Crazybus on their first day of Crazyschool.

I'm the Once-ler. Sorry this couldn't have been under better circumstances.

[hairflyingheartpounding]

...Fine.

[Rapunzel doesn't think science is predictable or always the same. She thinks it's full of new discovery and unexpected findings.

But she realizes saying that might be a bad idea.]

Just because you'll be my teacher doesn't make me a kid, though.

[hairflyingheartpounding]

[A giggle.] Yes, exactly.

The Once-ler? [She mumbles to herself...] Once-ler... I like that name. And I'm sorry, too.

[truffulacide]

So what do you say we play hookie? The day I'm put in a stranger's house and expected to play husband is the day...the day hummingfish fly! [he's pretty sure they can't, but...]

[what what what. is the world ending or does someone seriously think his name isn't weird?]

O-Oh? You do? That's, ah - [really, really nice.] ...Thanks.

[hairflyingheartpounding]

At least you get to be an adult. And what are hummingfish? They sound wonderful.

I do! You're welcome.

[truffulacide]

Heh. Sometimes I wish I wasn't. [a beat.] Hummingfish are pretty cool. They look like giant goldfish, except they can walk on land. And sing.

I hope the town or whoever's running the shots over there doesn't try to get you to change yours. [and added as an almost casual afterthought:] It's too pretty.

[hairflyingheartpounding]

Growing up is hard...

But Hummingfish must be amazing to see. They sound almost as amazing as chameleons.

I hope so, t--

You really think so?

[truffulacide]

Chameleons can't sing, though! All they can do is change colors, which...I guess is pretty awesome, but still, they're not the only animals who can do that!

...Well, yeah. Why wouldn't it be?