Thirty Three Truffula Trees

[whichwayyoulean]

[Later tonight, one may find the peace of their evening disturbed by a horrible screeching sound permeating the journals. As if metal is meeting metal in a horrible, scraping doom. Accompanying the terrible screeching is a low thudum-thudum-thudum. This continues for about a minute before the Once-ler manages to grab hold of his journal, laughing nervously into the pages]

Sooo hey. Quick FYI. You guys might want to avoid the Laundry Room until tomorrow. Not that there's anything to worry about. Mostly.

Whoaaaah just stay in that corner of the room. Oh jeez you're getting Tide everywhere.

I might have experimentally given one of he tumble dryers legs. And then I was tinkering about in the back of it, just fooling around and I miiiiight have given it a teeny tiny slither of self awareness. Like the teeniest. Hardly anything, really.

[Screeeech. Thudum-thudum-thudum]

I think it's mad.

Comments

[heal_theworld]

...No? I'm just used to doing it by hand.

[whichwayyoulean]

But you guys don't trust the machines.

[heal_theworld]

Well, not particularly...

[whichwayyoulean]

So what do you think they might do?

[heal_theworld]

I don't know. We don't really...use machines in Aselia.

[And when they do they're powered by their much needed life source. Which is bad.]

[whichwayyoulean]

[That is really really bad]

Well, you could try them out here. They're totally safe.

...Except for the microwave.

[heal_theworld]

...After Zelos managed to summon a demon with the microwave, I'm not going anywhere near it. And I use some things. I use the stove!

[whichwayyoulean]

I don't blame you on that one. Not even I'm willing to touch the microwave. Guy's gotta have boundaries, you know?

[heal_theworld]

[She laughs.] I wonder sometimes if the microwave isn't planning it's revenge after being blown up so much.

[whichwayyoulean]

...

Aaaaand the winner of the Thought That'll Keep Me Up At Night award goes to:

[heal_theworld]

Well, I doubt it can grow legs and walk.

...Unless you give it some. I don't recommend it, though.

[whichwayyoulean]

Yeaaah, trust me, I'm never going to even try touching that thing.

[heal_theworld]

Probably a good decision. Stick with the things that can't possibly kill you.

[whichwayyoulean]

That narrows it down quite a lot in the castle, you know. Anything could be magically inclined to kill me at any given time.

[heal_theworld]

True... Which means you really shouldn't add legs to anything you see just because.

[And she circles this back around to the dryer.]

[whichwayyoulean]

You say that like I'm ever going to stop messing around with the machines here.

[heal_theworld]

[She sighs.] ...I suppose it was too much to hope for.

[whichwayyoulean]

You got that right, sister!