echidna | ❄ tenth reminder

[ action ; 1338 benny ; morning ]

[ so the previous day you likely noticed that Jade was a happy, cheerful drone! fortunately, today she is back to her normal self, up bright and early and just a little confused, all things considered. but for now, she's settled herself down at the breakfast table, humming and working at a bowl of cereal.

everything seems pretty normal, save for the pair of dog ears she's now sporting. ]

[ phone ]

Hi Mayfield, it's Jade! [ wow she sounds super excited! breeeeathe! ] I have so much to tell you!

I went home! I'm not really sure how, or if that kind of thing happens a lot but I went home and I don't think I remembered being here or what but it's really weird! I'm also not sure why I'm back but I guess I'm kind of glad because now I can tell everyone-- or maybe I'm not supposed to say anything! Does anyone know anything about that, I mean, I don't want to spoil anything for my friends who don't know what's going to happen.

Timelines are getting kind of difficult to keep track of, maybe I should make a list.

Anyway, does this going home thing happen a lot? Because I keep getting pulled out at kind of inconvenient times!

[ action ; around mayfield ]

[ Jade is quite active around Mayfield today, once again having donned her girl scouts uniform, but without the wagon of cookies in tow. She's chopped some holes into her hat to accommodate her newly regained ears, and is approaching just about everyone, be they girl or otherwise, with the intention of recruitment. ]

Hi, did you know that you look like you would make an excellent girl scout?

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I definitely don't want to confuse anyone! It's weird being ahead of everyone now, not like before when I could see ahead in my dreams.

Time travel's a pain in the ass like that. [ he would know. ] But now you can go back to saying totally cryptic shit that no one gets but has some hidden deeper meaning. I've missed that.

[ She's quiet for a moment, thinking over what he's said. The silence is broken by soft, relieved sounding laughter. ]

It's been a while since I've been really cryptic! I hope I still remember how.

I'm pretty sure you've still got it in you. Enigmatic statements that may or may not mean something. You've definitely got a future in the fortune telling gig if you ever decide to go that route.

Hmm, if being a mad scientist doesn't work out for me, I will keep fortune teller in mind.

Gotta keep the options open. I hear megalomania isn't that profitable these days anyway.

Megalomania? No, I would be the good kind of mad scientist.

It doesn't work like that. It's like implied in the term itself, "mad scientist". You don't use a term for insanity to describe someone who goes around spreading rainbows and sunshine. Which is kind of crazy in a way but still.

No way, you can definitely be a good mad scientist, because that's what I'm going to be. Now I might have to do it just to prove you wrong.

What does a good mad scientist do anyway? Maniacally invent new flavors of candy? Watch out, crazy chemist on the loose, going to improve quality of life through bizarre and horrible experimentation.

Pretty much! I don't know if I want to be a candy scientist though.

Is that even a real thing. Candy scientists toiling away in their diabolical confectionatories, trying to figure out how to infuse the flavor of some new god awful tropical fruit into chocolate.

Okay see now we're back to evil. If that's not evil I don't know what is.

What? That actually sounds really good. Maybe I should be a candy scientist.

What about that sounds remotely good?

All of it!

Devote your life to spreading cavities and toothache. Yeah, why not.

What if I encouraged good dental hygiene?

What, like telling kids not to eat candy? Seems kinda contradictory doesn't it?

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