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[my_six_hearts]

[the Companion Cube had been feeling very hyperactive lately...as hyperactive as a completely inanimate object could be, anyway. The swarm of new people had pulled it out of its post-castle-crumbling stupor, and it was now practically humming with life. ...GLaDOS's appearance hadn't helped either. So, the Cube had been left in the middle of the

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[why_born]

Glad to hear you're feeling better, Cubie .

[my_six_hearts]

alot

feeling alot

[why_born]

[Doesn't want to bring up that creepy thing, just in case it spazzes the Cube out again]

Well....uh...good!

[my_six_hearts]

Good.

[a pause as its mind skips topic. It was probably just a coincidence]

she is here
with all these new people

maybe nothing bad will happen
maybe
maybe she will flood the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin

[tehoniongirl]

[after how much time she's been spending in the lobby, she notices the Cube right away. After all, it's somewhat difficult to ignore a large box with hearts on it. Of course, once she's looking in its direction, she also sees the journal lying on the floor.]

Hmm... [picks it up] Someone must have dropped this.

[my_six_hearts]

[hey, have some typed words]

i hope she does not take my book

[tehoniongirl]

[she sees them, but doesn't realize they're about her] I wonder who dropped this?

[flips the book over to get a peek at the name on the cover] Companion Cube? [o.O]

[my_six_hearts]

[it doesn't expect you to, since it wasn't talking to you anyway :P]

The Weighted Companion Cube

Companion Cube

The Cube

Cubie

ComCu

Creepy Box

[idly running its names through its mind]

[kindnessing]

... Is everything with the castle better as well?

[my_six_hearts]

better [it thought about this] new.

things are new.

[kindnessing]

... I guess that would be a good thing, in one way or another.

[my_six_hearts]

I wonder how long they will all last.

[squirrelpatrol]

[Dug is in the lobby, too, because the lobby is where all the PEOPLE are, and the people seem to really like Dug and want to pet him and play with him and FEED HIM THINGS, which is sort of the best part ever. currently he's trotting back in from the ballroom]

There were not very many people in that room, but it smelled interesting. Oh well. Maybe there will be some people out there and they will --

[and he spots the Cube] POINT.

[my_six_hearts]

[too bad Dug can't read, because the Cube has noticed him too]

I know what that is.

It is a dog.

[squirrelpatrol]

[wanders up to it, sniffing]

Oh boy! I know what this is!

It is a toy!

[my_six_hearts]

A toy?

I did not know that the Weighted Companion Cube could serve as a toy.

[hev_interloper]

Is everything alright?

[my_six_hearts]

alright

all right

all correct

[the Cube was thinking]

Not correct.

She is not supposed to be here.

[hev_interloper]

She?

[Gordon gets this vague sense that he should know who this 'she' is, but it's not coming to him right now.]

[my_six_hearts]

She

She belongs at the Aperture Science computer-aided Enrichment Center.

This is not the Aperture Science computer-aided Enrichment Center.