Neither did she, Rob... and my SI will end up wondering if he should jump on that bandwagon at some point, too.  Not that he will, in the end, but I do enjoy the concept of it.

Glad to hear it, BA.  Honestly, I thought I was going a bit far with this, but you just know she'd do that.

Actually, I think my favoritest bit is the bit after this one.  You'll understand when I get that far.

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<Fast-Forwarding Memory To A More Relevant Point>

It took some doing, but I was eventually able to get Sein calmed down and off to the carnival.

Eventually.

We appeared, surprisingly enough, in the back of a very familiar tent, full of very familiar boxes.  What?  This is a completely different planet- why did we-?  HOW did we end up in the same
relative spot?  Is somebody actively updating destination points for a CARNIVAL? 


Best not to think about it for now.  Need to wrangle the Sein.


<Compressing Extended Narrative Into Montage Format>

"Oooohh... let's go on the rides!"

"Do you think we can?  I'm not sure I'm tall enough."

"Why would that matter?"

"Safety.  Normal children aren't tough enough to take falling out of a ride, and are too small for the restraints.  So they're not allowed to ride."

"Oh, well that makes sense.  Hey, a sign!  'You must be this tall to ride.'
Imma, get over here!"

"Okay...
Huh.  What do you know.  I am tall enough.  Guess we're going on a ride together... but which one?"
Not the drop tower.  Please, not the drop tower.

"How 'bout the spinny one over there?"

Phew.

"Okay, then."

*****

"Huh.  That was kinda boring."

"Speak for yourself!  It was all fast and spinny!"

"...Sein, I can fly faster than that."

"Oh, yeah?  Bet you can't fly faster than that with a passenger!"

"Pfft.  Faster than that?  Easy.  Heck, I could fly faster AND spin tighter than that!"

"Heh.  Prove it!"

"Fine!  I will!

...did you just sucker me into taking you out for a flight?"

"Yep!"

I have GOT to stop falling for that.

*****


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