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[viva_la_materia]

So, um. What's with the giant fruit?

I mean, I wouldn't ask, 'cuz it's probably asking for trouble or tempting fate or something really terminally stupid, and usually nobody knows anything anyhow, but it's been hanging everywhere for a day or two now and it's kind of creeping me out. It's like, when's the other shoe gonna drop?

[Pause.] You know, if fruits were shoes.

Not that I think these ones are gonna actually fall off the Tree. At least, I hope not. They look majorly heavy, and I like visiting the islands without wearing a helmet.

Comments

[fangsofnewyork.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't try eating them. Too many colors. I think that means they're dangerous.

[viva-la-materia.livejournal.com]

What? [Pause, while she works that one out.] No, I know not to eat the little crazy-looking ones. I mean the big ones. The ones that look kinda like the coc

[The pencil pauses. Then, hesitantly:]

You don't think there are people inside, do you?

[fangsofnewyork.livejournal.com]

What? No, that would just be crazy.

[a pause]

Scratch that, you're probably right. This place is crazy.

[viva-la-materia.livejournal.com]

Well, I mean, if they look like the birth cocoons...then what if they are birth cocoons? Maybe there's gonna be a huge load of people born all at once and there wasn't room in the hatchery!

[fangsofnewyork.livejournal.com]

In that case, I feel sorry for the poor bastards who are gonna have to deal with them.

[viva-la-materia.livejournal.com]

No kidding. There'd be a major towel shortage, for one thing.