‘Ello, ev’ryone. In spite of the protests I received from some of you last week, I decided to go ahead and skip Steve and move on to Loki and Tony. I’m sure you won’t mind… If you’re new, I suggest you check out past posts here.
Tony opened his eyes slowly, blinking away sand. If only the dream was true. If only he was back at home, with Pepper and a steak. Or even a Big Mac.
Instead, he was here with Loki and sand. Natasha was a big plus, but…
He sat up. Where was Natasha? He scrambled to his feet, accidentally kicking Loki’s arm as he stood. Loki flew up, ready to tackle Tony, who threw his arms up and scrambled backwards. Loki took a deep breath. “Has no one ever told you not to suddenly wake a sleeping Asgardian?”
Tony ran a hand through his sand-filled hair. “I thought that was just Thor. I now know better. It was completely an accident. Have you seen Natasha?”
Loki rubbed his forehead. “I have not. She may have simply gone for a walk.”
Tony shook his head. “Not after everything that happened.” Although she might be just trying to make them nervous. But she would be crazy if she was doing that. “We should check in the forest, make sure she’s not laying around somewhere, unconscious.”
Loki looked at him skeptically. “Last time we went in the forest, you came out unconscious.”
Tony nodded. “Exactly. Let’s go.”
Tony was pretty sure Loki didn’t follow his reasoning, but he wasn’t sure he understood it himself, so he didn’t bother to explain. They had only gone a little ways when they found a small spot of blood on the forest floor. Loki bent down, studying the leaves. “It seems she was fighting someone.”
Something tapped Tony’s shoulder, and he spun around, distracted. He didn’t see anything, but there was a suspicious looking vine hanging down. He reached out slowly, slowly, and grabbed it. Suddenly it yanked him up off his feet. “Help!” he yelped, grabbing onto a nearby branch for dear life.
Loki yanked on his feet, breaking the vine, and they tumbled into a heap on the forest floor. They scrambled to their feet and dashed madly for the beach.
“What. Was. That?” Tony panted, gazing back at the forest. He froze. One of the trees was moving, coming towards them, like a human slogging through thick, waist-high mud. Another tree started moving, then another.
Loki grabbed Tony’s arm. “I think we should run,” he said calmly.
“I wish I had an axe,” Tony groaned. He stumbled back through the sand and felt his heel hit something hard as it sank into the wet sand. “Hey! Maybe there’s something here. Maybe it’s an axe, or a blowtorch, or something…” He fell to his knees and started digging frantically through the sand.
“The current would prevent anything useful from landing here. We need to–” Loki stopped. Tony slowly pulled his hand away from the object as a wave fully uncovered it. Loki sucked in a breath. “Is that…”
Tony’s voice was quiet. “Cap’s shield.”
Thanks to erinkenobi2893 and sarahtps for both contributing ideas to the post unintentionally. 😉 Like to get a bag of trail mix, comment for shawarma.
Dear characters: I’m sorry for giving your author the suggestion to make your situation is. I genuinely am.
At least Cap’s shield is a good sign. After all, the shield’s heavier than he is- if it made it to the island, they can assume he did as well. Admittedly, they don’t know if he’s alive or not, but they can assume he is.
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Odd that it didn’t sink… and that it ended up where the current couldn’t possibly have taken it, as Loki said…
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Did Steve have his shield earlier? I can’t remember.
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No, he didn’t. Unless I forgot about it. *scratches head* Which is entirely possible. 😛
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Ok, that’s what I thought.
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Did you mean “heavier”, or just “more dense”?
(Update: Steve is reading over my shoulder and joked that before the serum he’s pretty sure the shield weighed more than he did. Steve…. *tackles him for being ridiculous* *realizes I made a mistake, since he’s much bigger than me, and clings on for dear life* Umm…. guys?!)
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More dense. Whatever. It would normally sink; he normally wouldn’t.
(*snickers and watches* Nice one, Erin.)
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Well, you don’t mean density so much then, more like the natural buoyancy of the human body… 😛
(Thanks a lot! *clings in terror* Oh boy… the ground is so far awaaaayyyyyy… he’s rolling his eyes, isn’t he.)
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Ok then. Yes. That’s what I meant.
(Maaaaaybe. You could just ask him to let you down. xD)
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😛 I’m just giving you a hard time, in return for you giving me one…
(Actually, I’m starting to like the view from up here… *clambers up higher* YAY PIGGY-BACK RIDES!!!)
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I figured.
(You realize Steve’s still rolling his eyes, right?)
((How tall is Steve Rodgers anyway?))
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((Taller than Natasha Romanoff and shorter than the Hulk. XD Somewhere over six feet, I believe.))
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Yeah, he probably thinks I’m nuts, but I LIKE CUDDLES OKAY? 😛 And he hasn’t dropped me on my backside yet!
6’2″, which is three inches taller than me. It’s still a significant gap (at least for me.) I’m not used to looking up to look at guys. My dad, yes. Most men, no. *looks down again* Oooh, I’m starting to get what you meant about being dizzy those first few seconds after the procedure….
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HA! I’m 5’1.5″… I’ve had a kindergartner pick me up before… and I hardly ever have to look down at guys.
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… yes, I tower over people, please shut up…
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And I, uh, tower under people. 😛
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That you do. 😛
To the kitchen, Steve! It is time for late-night tea!
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Feel free to come along! 😉
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Why, of course. Except I don’t drink tea…
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What?! You don’t drink tea? 0_0
The horror…
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Nope. Or coffee.
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Do you drink other things than cocoa?!
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Actually, I don’t drink cocoa, either. 😛 Water, occasionally lemonade…
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What about when you’re cold? (Do you live in California or something?!)
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Texas. 😛 It gets cold in California. And when I’m cold, I curl up in a blanket and have tomato soup or chili.
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Ohmygoodness, do you know Em in real life?!
mmmmm… tomato soup… may I join you? (Ever tried roasted red pepper bisque? It’s really really REALLY good. Warming. Still looking for a good recipe for it, because mmmmmm….)
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Em?
Oh yes… except it’s not cold. 😛 Nope, never tried that.
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…icedmocha34
*sigh* *head desk*
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Yep. She’s the one who got me blogging. 😛
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I shall head over and thank her then! 😛
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*high five* yeah for the tower under team! XD
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I am slightly over 5’6″ (can’t remember my exact height) and hoping very hard my sister doesn’t get taller than me. >.<
*follows Erin and Steve to tea*
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*pours out the tea* *hands out cookies* There was cake, until six family members happened. Now we just have cookies. Oh, and scones!
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Scones and cookies more than make up for cake. Particularly as I had cake with dinner. *happily eats cookie*
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I love tea!
Did I tell you what we did yesterday? Mostly we just hung out, but the other thing we did that was fun was we were talking about BBC Sherlock and Steve used a Brit-ism and then blushed. And I was like, “It’s okay, Steve, we know it’s only because you were stationed in England for two years!”
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Tea is lovely . . . usually. There are some I don’t like.
Haha, that’s hilarious. xD Or maybe he’s been spending too much time around the British characters in your mind palace? xD
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Same. A couple are just too sweet for me.
No, it’s really mostly his contact with Peggy and Falsworth. And maybe he goes to get a beer with Dr. Watson every now and again, but that’s his affair. (Yes, he’s the designated driver. Pfft.)
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XD That’s good, at least. 😛 He has a legitimate reason for not being drunk if someone asks. 😛
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That’s part of the reason why they instated him as designated driver. 😛
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I have the opposite problem- I like my teas sweet, so if I don’t have honey (or sometimes sugar) to put in it, I’m less likely to drink it.
Ah. Wasn’t sure. You do have an awful lot of British characters in your head, after all.
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Mmm… well, blame the BBC. I don’t have that many original novel characters who are British.
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Oh, and we just maybe, sorta, discovered that Steve has second sight. It’s never been obvious, because for some reason men don’t have visions the same as women do (why do you think so many oracles were women in the ancient world?!) But if you think about it, it makes sense–his ability to guess in advance where the bad guys will be, the wacky “danger sense”…
Oh, and we all visited the world of BBC Merlin. Steve says that it was incredibly satisfying to gag Loki with thin air. Thor says that our Midgardian magic is very different from the magic of Asgard, which relies on the energies of the World Tree, but he is not surprised as humanity’s strength has always come from within. And Merlin is annoyed, because it turns out that Steve is better at magical healing than he is–and Merlin’s supposed to be the most powerful warlock of all time.
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That does make sense. *nods*
Sounds fun. xD I imagine that (about gagging Loki with thin air) would be satisfying . . . though I’m curious how Loki retaliated. Was that retaliation in any way related to your discovery of Steve’s healing skills? (Which, honestly, I’m not surprised about either.)
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Um… Loki retaliated by changing Steve’s scarf (it was windy) into a snake. Then Merlin changed it back and made a toad come out of Loki’s mouth. That was just disgusting.
Oh, and Gaius explained to us about the healing spells. Steve was humming something he remembered his mother singing once and Gaius recognized it.
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Oh, lovely. >.<
Ah, I see.
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Yup. 😛
Yeah… I have this headcanon, even when I’m not in the middle of an AU which also happens to be a Merlin fusion, that the reason why Steve’s parents immigrated to America was because someone was threatening to lynch Sarah–she was rumored to have the second sight, and bigots were having another witchcraft scare. (I read an account of a crime investigation in Britain, post WWII, that was never completed due to all the superstition. So this isn’t all that far-fetched, really. 😉 Especially since they must have left at least thirty years before that investigation! Possibly more!)
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Sounds like a really cool AU. 🙂 If you ever write it as a fanfiction, I’d like to read it.
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I’m sort of working on it. It might also take place in the same world as “Supernatural”, which, by the way, I don’t watch…
Umm… sorry???
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What are you apologizing for?
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It probably will take forever to write :-S
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Ah, ok.
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*sigh*
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It depends on how the shield fell, too.
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True. If it hit with the curved side down, it might float, like a boat would.
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As long as it didn’t get swamped with water from the force of it hitting the water. If it hit on its edge, which is much more likely (as falling flat would cause more air resistance), it would probably go straight to the bottom of the ocean.
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The point you’re trying to make being, I assume, that the shield can’t have “just so happened” to show up on the island?
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Well, I wasn’t trying to make that point, I guess it just kind of happened. 😛
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Ah.
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Though I was a supporter of you doing Steve’s perspective, I love this post! X3 Does Loki still have his staff thing?
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Nope! Now he and Tony have the only (working) Avengers weapon on the island. Except for Hawkeye’s bow…
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What? I thought he did at the beginning… *shrugs* Okay. Are Tony and Loki going to use it to their advantage or are they going to do something else?
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Possibly, we’ll see. 😉
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Yay for shields, no moving parts X-P
Good choice, Cap! Nothing that’ll break down under strain or get fritzed by water (thanks a lot, Howard.) And I’m pretty sure vibranium is rustproof as well. 😛
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Spooookyyyy… *shudder* Walking trees? Thanks for the nightmare. 😛
Yay! Cap’s shield!! But, Loki’s right. How’d it get up there? It’s too heavy, so it would sink in the ocean. And the tide hasn’t been that high since they got there.
*gasp*It’s a trap! I know it’s a trap! :S
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I totally stole how they walk from the Chronicles of Narnia. 😉 Prince Caspian, I believe it was.
Yes, Loki is right. You may or may not be right in your speculation, though…
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It’s been a while since I’ve read those. But it sounds like an accurate tree walk description. 😉
Oh, I may or may not be right? Didn’t know that before, thanks. 😛
BTW, this episode was a very pleasant surprise. I usually have avengers isle to look forward to on Thursdays, but since I’ve been sick this week, I forgot what day it was. So I logged onto WordPress this morning and was like “oh! Avengers isle! Yay!” 🙂
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Same here. 😛 Glad to have been of service, m’lady. 😉
Aww, that’s awesome! 😀 I guess that reminded you that it was Thursday. 😛
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Yep! It’s easy to lose track of time when your sick. No schedule. Just sit around and feel pathetic. 😛
This was also actually the first one my 14 year old brother read too. Usually he just saunters up behind me and asks what’s up with the avengers this week. 🙂 We’re the cap fan duo, so I had to let him in on the story. 😉
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That’s actually one of the good things about being sick. One of the only good things…
Aww, that’s so awesome!!!! 😀
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I’d say the only good thing. I don’t really like people waiting on me too much. 😉
Yeah, he loves it too. 🙂 His only question was how is Tony’s chest thing working.
But that’s pretty good. Only one question and he usually finds all my plot holes. 😉
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Haha, same here. 😉
Hmm, good question… That’s true, I love having people like that around. I’m one of those people, except when it comes to my own stories. *sigh* Actually, I usually look at my own stories too critically. 😉
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And I’m good at coming up with crazy explanations before shrugging and fixing it. 😉
So, my thought here is that Red Scull has the only power on the island and he wants to keep Tony alive (for sinister revenge reasons, I’m sure), so he’s the only one allowed access to electricty/cube power on the island.
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SAME!!! XD
I was thinking something along that line, too. He definitely wants to keep Tony alive, but I’m still not sure how all the anti-Thor’s-hammer-and-Iron-Man-suit-and-Hulk all works. XD
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I see we operate a lot the same on the writing process. XD
Well, all that runs on a sort of energy. Mr. Skull just has the monopoly in this situation. 😉
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Haha, yes. 😉 He definitely does. Although he may not have complete control… *wink wink wink*
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*rubs hands* ohhohoho! 🙂
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*wiggles eyebrows*
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Can’t wait for the next episode! >:)
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If you’re that eager for Avengers Isle, please consider that some of us may feel the same about your Lego Movie and Avengers crossover? *gets Steve to come over and do puppy dog eyes*
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Oh! *slaps head* of course. I’ll get back to that. That’s the problem with being such a mutitasker. Things slip through the cracks. 😛
And Steve, quit the puppy eyes. They don’t look good on you. 😉
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True… 😛
Actually, they do. The problem is, they work far too well. Bucky says that they violate the Geneva Convention. 😛
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*snicker*Well, a long-suffering look would most likely do the job just fine on me. 😛
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*cough* I can give you several if you like.
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Alright, alright… 😛
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*Steve switches to a ridiculously exaggerated version of the look he uses on Tony Stark* *I elbow him in the stomach* Ow… Okay, that was ill-considered. Steve, stop that. You look like you haven’t had tea in months, and that’s just sad. *goes to make tea*
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*gives him a cookie*
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Umm… you didn’t obviously didn’t read the cautionary tale “If You Give a Super-Soldier a Cookie”.
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YES I WANT TO READ THAT!!!! XD
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Don’t worry, I’m working on writing it right now. 😛
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*slaps knee* XD
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Will have it written soon! X-P
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And illustrated I hope! XD
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I’d have to go to someone else for that… not that good at drawing Steve and Bucky yet. *sigh*
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Practice makes perfect! It could just be silly doodle illustrations, too. 😉
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Stick figures! 😀
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Something like that. A Wile. E. Coyote diagram sort of thing. XD
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Meh… I’m a perfectionist…
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Amen to that…
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X-D
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It’s round, and lighter than steel, so it may have been rolled up by the current… but if it landed bowl-up it would totally float… gah. That shield is like a boomerang. It never gets lost. Hey, like the One Ring!
…I’ve slightly disturbed myself now. (Vibranium, not gold. Does not like to possess random creepy hobbits. Is, in fact, an inanimate object. NOT like Mjolnir.)
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XD Well, who knows, maybe it isn’t an inanimate object…
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Don’t start with that! It’s creepy!
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Well, it seems to have a thing about not getting lost…
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*sigh*…
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HELLO AGAIN!
Also, walking trees…. *sigh* that’s been dun be4… 😛
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