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[happy_footed]

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

The door opens to a blustery, snowy day... and a flailing, screaming penguin sliding in on his belly, his little wings flapping furiously in an attempt to go faster before--

"Oh."

The brown-ice place. Better than predators trying to eat him, anyway.

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[sime_channel]

"Mumble!" Happy Suzi! Suzi? Loves penguins. Really, really, really loves penguins.

Suzi has a collection of music for him, too! "Hi!"

[sime_channel]

"Uh huh." She wiggles in place a little bit, the music changes again and Suzi makes the baby penguin in the book dance to the new music, "Really...I'm glad you like it!"

[happy_footed]

He pounces!

Suzi's hand has been babypenguinglomped!

[sime_channel]

Suzi's hand is the HAPPIEST HAND IN THE BAR!! She's fighting really hard not to actually say Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Instead she just barely runs her fingernails over his head, mimicking preening a little bit.

[happy_footed]

He nuzzles her hand and giggles happily.

"T-t-t-thank you, Suzi."

[sime_channel]

"You're always welcome, Mumble." She says cheerfully, "You're too sweet not to make happy."

[happy_footed]

He giggles again.

"I'm j-just h-h-happy!"

[sime_channel]

"Uh huh." She agrees, "And I love it."

[happy_footed]

"Okay," he says, not really understanding. "B-b-b-but thank you for the b-book. It's really nice."

He looks at it again.

"D-d-does it show you h-how to sing?"

[sime_channel]

"There are things to help you sing, but I can't teach you." She says with a shrug, "I'm not very good at it. Whistler is!"

[happy_footed]

He tilts his head curiously.

"W-w-whistler? He doesn't w-whistle?"

[sime_channel]

"He Whistles too." She says with a smile, "He does lots of things. He's perfect."

Suzi does not think of being blind as a defect.

[happy_footed]

"You s-said he doesn't d-dance, right?"

[sime_channel]

"I've never seen him dance." She says, "He says he just moves to the music? Which is a kind of dancing."

[happy_footed]

"He p-probably doesn't d-dance. If he's p-perfect."

Because dancing wasn't penguin. It was freakiness and it wasn't what he was supposed to do.

[sime_channel]

"He can't see." She points out, "So how can he learn how to dance?"