005 | Dictated/Spam

[hellofist]

Halloween is... for candy and costumes, right? Scary movie marathons, haunted houses. [There's a short, thoughtful pause here.] Or haunted castles, I guess.

This is first Halloween, for me. Not really sure... how it works. What do you do, where you're from?

Will need a costume...

[For anyone who happens to be out on a walk today, Cass can be found sitting on the grass outside the castle with a rather large pumpkin, a set of plastic carving tools, and an electric carving knife that's been kind of tossed off to the side. Apparently, the castle decided to get cute with her when she asked for something to carve her pumpkin with.]

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[hellofist]

Must be... really big tree...

[If the Once-ler can fit under the thing it must be like twenty feet tall.]

[whichwayyoulean]

Oh yeah, our trees are huge.

[They decorate them with ROCKET LAUNCHERS]

[hellofist]

[You might win the best Christmas award, Once. Also don't mind how excited she sounds over this Christmas just sounds so cool to her.]

With lights and stuff?

[whichwayyoulean]

[He is totally fine with Christmas excitement. Christmas is the BEST holiday]

Lights, tinsel, baubles, the works! And a great, big glowing star on the top.

[hellofist]

Must need ladders, then. Since tree is huge.

[whichwayyoulean]

Nah, we have special launchers that shoot the decorations onto the tree.

[SEUSSIANS]

[hellofist]

[There's a stretch of silence after that.]

This isn't fair. Can't see you, to know... if you're serious.

[whichwayyoulean]

[Awww, Cass, that gets a chuckle]

Hey, you know my door's always open for you.

[hellofist]

You mean window, right?

[whichwayyoulean]

[He'll smile softly] The classiest way to enter a building.

[hellofist]

Best way, at least. Much faster. You should try, sometime.

[whichwayyoulean]

I'm pretty sure that would end with me falling or ending up a tangled mess of limbs. Maybe both.

[hellofist]

You just need practice. Everyone falls... when they first start.

[whichwayyoulean]

Okay, but you have to promise to keep the laughing at a minimum when I inevitably fall over.

[hellofist]

Promise. Will only laugh... if nothing breaks.

[whichwayyoulean]

I can live with that, there's plenty of laughter opportunity for you, less chance of me being in real pain and being laughed at. It all works out nicely.

[hellofist]

Trust yourself more. How many broken bones... have you had, while here?

[She only knows of the one, after all.]

[whichwayyoulean]

Just the one. [A pause. He's thinking] Yeah, just the one. Yet.[Because let's not tempt fate]

[hellofist]

See? Give self more credit.

[whichwayyoulean]

Okay, Cass. I promise to try to work on that.

[hellofist]

Better try hard. Will be checking. Will give quiz and everything.

[whichwayyoulean]

Wow, a quiz. Man, I'd better start studying.

[hellofist]

Definitely should. Being cute won't save you.

[whichwayyoulean]

[Wow is he glad she can't see his massive blush here]

I didn't even know that was a possible card to play.

[hellofist]

[It's probably best she can't, she'd laugh cause it's cute and he'd probably take it the wrong way.]

Now you do. Should take advantage.