Twenty Eight Truffula Trees

[whichwayyoulean]

[Friends]

[He'd meant to do this yesterday, but the Lorax arriving had thrown him off. Still, the forest guardian had done him some good. It meant he had to try to piece himself together again, or at least start to. But there was something more important to attend to now. After losing Zelos and House (the memory of watching the latter die engraved on his brain and refusing to leave) he needs to know...]

Okay guys, if you could tell me if you got out of that mess now would be a really great time. Don't make me come looking for you, because I'm pretty sure someone in here will drag me back to bed before I can pathetically shuffle as far as the door. We'd be at it all day.

Just...check in.

[Mom]

[He didn't want to make this filter. He'd rather her not know where he is. Perhaps, even, he has the smallest hope her visit in the castle was brief. Enough to shake him up before she went home again. One last wonderful stab in the chest to remember her by.

...But she's still his mother. And he still needs to know if she's okay]

I asked after you. Where were you? Are you still here?

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[fantasies]

Okay!

[He dives into the chair, and balances the board on the bed. He drops Once's pieces on his side.]

So you put your ships around the board however you want. [He leans around the partition and then immediately shrinks back around it.] Make sure I don't see! That's important, because I'm going to try and sink them. Whoever sinks all the other person's ships first wins.

[whichwayyoulean]

[The Once-ler picks up a little ship, raising it to his eye level to peer at it, before carefully beginning to place it]

Gotta love Earth, bringing war games to the children.

[fantasies]

[Henry grins, meticulously making shapes out of his carriers.]

Next we can play Risk.

[whichwayyoulean]

Risk huh? Does that one have sharp, dangerous edges?

[fantasies]

No, but it's really long and really boring.

[whichwayyoulean]

And people play it becauuuuse?

[fantasies]

Beats me. [His tongue pokes out a little in concentration while he decides where to put his last ship.] I think you're supposed to take over the world in it.

[whichwayyoulean]

It's not as fun as you'd think.

...

I'd guess. So. Battleships. You go first, so I can see what we;re supposed to be doing.