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[thatholeinside]

You and I need to have a chat, Mun. We have some business to attend to before you send me to Wonderland.

I'll choose to see this as an opportunity to expand my company; however, the tools you'll be providing me with are simply inadequate. You're saying that I, as a corporate zilionaire, have to start from scratch? That's ridiculous. I've already created the perfect Thneed™ from the perfect material. Who would want one that isn't as soft as silk? What sort of Thneed™ doesn't smell like butterfly milk?

However, I suppose the possibility of a re-release is promising. A new and "improved" model that everyone will be scrambling to scoop up. A Thneed™ they would need even more than before! Maybe this could actually be beneficial. There must be something in Wonderland that will suffice.

...Oh, please. "I'm not allowed outside of the Mirror"? As if that's going to stop me from biggering.

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[sunshinensugar]

[Headtilt. Yup, most of that went over her head.]

Biggering? Are you... Wanting to get taller?

[She's not sure how much sense that would make because he's already reeeeeaaaaaally tall.]

[thatholeinside]

[He sighs, as if she asked him what water is, or air.]

No. I'm biggering my company and selling more Thneeds™. It's not something I'd expect a little girl to know anything about.

[sunshinensugar]

Hey! I'm not a little girl. I just... Don't get out much.

[Which is the best euphemism she's found for 'I spent the first eighteen years of my life in a tower'.]

So... You're making your company more successful? Oh! That sounds really good! Why would your mun try to make that more difficult for you?

[truffuladreams]

[Butterfly milk... Softer than silk... Audrey gulps. She's always wanted to smell butterfly milk, and the thought of something softer than silk-- She supposed since all the Truffula Trees were gone a Thneed™ would have to do, though that would mean supporting the business that took all the trees in the first place. What to do, what to do.]

Maybe... Maybe the company's big enough? Does it really need to be bigger?