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[keepcalmandflutteron]

[The screen comes on and there’s… nobody. Ah wait, no! There’s a butterfly. Bouncing up and down and shining as brightly as a twinkling star.]

Whooooa, this is cool! Hey! Can anybody hear me? Hellooooo is anybody there? Wow! This is sooo much more convenient then yelling at the top of your lungs! Now there is no excuse when somebody says that they don’t hear you!

Alright, so, yes, I should probably focus and not waste time on this thing? Can you even waste time here? Hmm… well, that’s a question that can be answered later, I guess. So, right, my name is… Butterfly. Yeah, yeah, I know. Pretty obvious. Wanna argue about it? Actually, that’s probably not a very good idea. I mean, what are you going to say when you lose to a butterfly? That’s gotta be a new low if I ever heard of one. And I spent most of my early life crawling on my belly! Ha!

So, hey, obviously this isn’t the world that I wanted to be around, and obviously that means that this whole thing is somebody else’s doing, so I want to know some answers. Um. Please? I mean you can’t all be displaced people from different worlds, right? Right.

Oh, and hey, if there’s anybody else that also has room for a butterfly in their home, I’m definitely in the market for one! I don’t need much room, honest! Just a dishful of sugar water and maybe an unused corner of the room! C’mon! You won’t even notice I was there!!

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[hattrickery]

"Hey, uh, before we get into the whole back-and-forth thing, quick question: You're not, like...secretly a fairy, are you? You're just a normal talking butterfly?"

[keepcalmandflutteron]

The butterfly bounces up and down. "YOU GUYS HAVE FAIRIES?"

[hattrickery]

"None that I've seen! You just kind of remind me of a friend from my previous world, is all."

Slight pause.

"Oh, my name's Hayate! I'm the local Guardian Angel."

[keepcalmandflutteron]

"Huh. So you're the go-to person that is keeping everything safe? Are there more Guardian Angels?"

"Oh! You can call me Butterfly. Nice to meet you, Hayate!"

[hattrickery]

"Nope! I'm the last one; the rest of them turned into stars."

[keepcalmandflutteron]

The butterfly droops. She wasn't expecting the conversation to get so sad so quickly. "...oh. Um... I'm sorry to hear that."

[hattrickery]

Hayate blinks.

"Why? Becoming the stars that support the night sky is our reward. They're dwelling in luminous glory and bliss at the heart of creation, and someday, when my work is done, I will be allowed to join them."

Pause.

"I mean, Corvus was redeemed enough to become a star and he punched God so hard God exploded. So I'm basically a shoe-in at this point."

[mithrarin]

You're... not a nimbat who's been changed into a butterfly from coming here, right?

[Dust hasn't had a lot of experience with nimbats in general, but he's really reminded of a specific one right about now.]

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Hey, if I'm a nimbat, you're a numbskull!

There's no reason to be rude, dummy!!

[mithrarin]

It wasn't an insult! My best friend was a nimbat. It's just another type of creature. You remind me of her a little.

sorry for brain fail |3;

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Your best friend, you say? Then obviously she was a pretty, generous, and well-meaning dumbat. hehe

But no, I'm not now nor have I ever been any kind of bat-like creature. I'm just Butterfly!

Who are you?

[mithrarin]

I wish you could meet Fidget. You two would get along great.

[His smile hints at just HOW they would get along. But it's mostly at Fidget's expense.]

I'm Dust.

[keepcalmandflutteron]

I'm Butterfly.

And I sort of wish I was talking to Fidget right now.

[visual]

[weakbutwilling]

...I have room...

[What a pretty butterfly.]

[visual]

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Hey! Great! That's so perfect!!

...you're not a pervert, are you?

[visual]

[weakbutwilling]

I--wait, what!?

[visual]

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Nothing~ You seem too shy to be a pervert anyway

What's your name? Where do you live?

[visual]

[weakbutwilling]

[WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOTHING]

W-well, I...I help out at this chair store...but there's lots of room, an upstairs!

[visual]

[keepcalmandflutteron]

[Sometimes she needs to learn when to shut up.]

Oh, cool! Did you choose Carpentry as a Life?

[VIsual]

[ceasetoexist]

Got news for ya.

We sure can all be from displaced worlds. A few of them on these dumb things are from here, but most of us? From all over.

[VIsual]

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Niiice.

Well, not really. I mean it has to be annoying to suddenly show up in a place that nobody knew existed.

Still, if everybody was ponies or dragons or butterflies, it can't be that big of a deal, right?

[VIsual]

[ceasetoexist]

Not sure if it's nice or not, but it beats everyone here being some dumb magic talking horse.

Sure, if you think being just plucked out of your home and thrown somewhere isn't that big a deal. Usually it isn't to me, either.

The horrible monster that brought us here though? Maybe that is a big deal.

[VIsual]

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Monster? There's a monster??

Re: [VIsual]

[ceasetoexist]

Sure is. Mean one too. I haven't seen it, but it sounds like it's probably the coolest thing in this place.

We wanna get home, we've gotta find a way past it.

[VIsual]

[keepcalmandflutteron]

So you're saying that you want me to go beat and beat it up?