046. Diagnosis

[vicodincrutch]

Oh no. Oh no. How did-? I didn't even try to leave base this time.

I-I need to find my mom now.

Dad'll be so mad. This isn't my fault.EDIT: I'm alone. Okay. What would Sherlock Holmes do? Or the Hardy Boys? This weird thing says that I'm not the only kid missing. Who would do that? I don't think there is a ransom. Who would kidnap so many kids?

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[nogoldbikinis]

Who's Sherlock Holmes?

[vicodincrutch]

He's only the greatest literary detective ever. Everyone knows that.

[nogoldbikinis]

I've never heard of him.

[vicodincrutch]

Can't you read?

[nogoldbikinis]

Of course I can read.

[vicodincrutch]

Then how come you haven't read Sherlock Holmes? He's way better than Nancy Drew.

[nogoldbikinis]

We don't have those stories on Alderaan.

[vicodincrutch]

Alderaan? Really?

Cross your heart and hope to die?

[nogoldbikinis]

Well I don't hope to die.

But that's where I'm from!

[vicodincrutch]

Is it really real? What's it like? Are the people there orange fish heads?

Um um...

Wait.

How do I know you're not lying? Cuz...that's in a movie and movies can be fake.

[nogoldbikinis]

Not all of them! But anyone can come!

A movie?

[vicodincrutch]

I want to go.

Yeah. Star Wars until something bad happened. But see, since you're from it I don't think it happened.

[nogoldbikinis]

You can come back with me when my father comes to get me.

I don't understand.

[vicodincrutch]

Do you have a brother or sister or something? Cuz... I mean, you're a girl.

You should read more.

[nogoldbikinis]

So what if I'm a girl?

I read a lot.

[vicodincrutch]

You might carry cooties. That's when you itch and smell. It's really gross. The only pre-prevention is a cootie shot.

But you don't know about Sherlock. You'll have to borrow it. And I only let my friends borrow things. So you'll have to be my friend if you don't have cooties even though you're a girl.