21st Teddy Bear [Action/Video]

[asobouyo]

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[Something was really, really different. You didn't have to be a grown-up to tell people were turning into stuff. But Elicia-of course, being Elicia-never considered she'd be one of the ones on the list of the changed. After school she went home, and then... poof. Different. She felt it. And with good reason: under her normal clothes was a

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[Voice]

[airborne_giles]

A lot of people are turning into things they shouldn't be.

...you'll be all right. This should only last a few more days.

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[taberuyo]

People are? Really?

...

What kinds of things?

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[airborne_giles]

Well, I'm not normally a dragon. I met one woman who had turned into a crab. And another who turned into an overlarge turtle.

Those sorts of things.

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[taberuyo]

Whoa! So lots of people are turning into animals? 'Cause I was a kitty once, when things went real funny here before! B-but I didn't turn to a animal today...

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[airborne_giles]

Perhaps you're just not an animal from your world.

[Granted, it looks like a little human girl and talks like a little human girl...]

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[taberuyo]

Really? You think I'm a animal?

I look normal... but I guess maybe it's a reaaal person-looking animal...

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[airborne_giles]

Precisely. Maybe there's a world somewhere where an entire species of animal exists that looks like small children with black hair.

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[taberuyo]

That'd be really neat!! I had a dream once where people were puppies and aaaall the doggies walked on their feet like normal people! A-and I was trying to tell them we weren't s'pposed to be puppies, but they couldn't understand me!

It was really weird!

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[airborne_giles]

[...you're so adorable and strange, Elicia.]

Something like your dream seems to be happening to the village right now, I'm afraid. Hardly anyone is the right shape.

Life would be a great deal easier if I was some sort of human-shaped animal like you seem to be.

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[taberuyo]

N-no, you don't wanna be like this one! 'Cause then you'll be real hungry, even if you eat all the food in the 'fridgerator!

[IT SUUUUUCKS. DX]

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[airborne_giles]

[...it must have just been a small refrigerator. Because you're a really little girl.]

Mostly, I've just been eating copious amounts of fish.

Is that a problem you've been having, then?

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[taberuyo]

Mhmm... I ate all the food in the kitchen...

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[airborne_giles]

...I don't think that's physically possible, actually. [Because he can tell from here that you're a really little girl, Elicia.]

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[taberuyo]

I don't know what a phy-sic-cally is, but I really did! I ate all the stuff there was. Even the box of pepper, and I ate all the cold vegetables in the bags, too!!

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[airborne_giles]

...and you're still hungry?

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[taberuyo]

[A meek little nod] Mmhm... I feel like I wanna eat more...