|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- GOODBYE POPCORN--CUP 45--"CANADA" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Goodbye Popcorn  ||  -------> (Cup SRgp045, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The group stopped and exchanged annoyed glances. Coabler rolled his eyes and looked back at the rest of the gang. "Okay, who wants to deal with this?" Classic of Logic stepped forward and said "This is all we need." The girl smiled at Classic as she approached. "Well hello there Classic of Logic and all of you. My name is Millicent, and you know what? I'm inside the movie!" "Okay." Classic said. "When you say you're inside the movie, what exactly do you mean? Do you mean that you were watching a movie with us in it, and somehow used a superpower or device to step into the film?" "You got it!" Millicent said brightly, jumping down and leaning on the log. "I've always loved 'Cup's Club'--that's why I chose it." Daptin looked up at the green sky, and muttered "I knew that phone call was a bad idea." Bith, nearby, turned to Daptin and asked, "Huh?" "I'm just saying, when Mallie made that call and the sky turned green, I knew something went wrong--and now this! A girl who steps into a movie and we're the movie. I mean, you know what? We're totally fucked." Fake stepped forward and addressed Millicent. "Look Millicent. As I'm sure you know from the movie, we're in a pretty bad situation here, and to us, it's reality. We have to keep moving." "I know. But you have some time yet. You can take a break and relax." Daptin walked ahead to the side and yelled "Can't you see? It was the phone call! A direct link between here and there, direct communication. Look at the sky! And now, we're in some really dangerous territory. Remember when we were working at the water treatment plant? Or where we were goddamn prostitutes? Now we're characters in a movie--and even worse--part of this babe's adolescent fantasy! I can't take it! I just can't fucking take it!" "Now wait a minute, Daptin." Granticaine said, sitting down on boulder. "I think you're overreacting to this. I mean, just think about it. If there are infinite alternate worlds out there, then it makes sense that in one of them they just happened to make a movie about characters and circumstances identical to us right now. That doesn't mean we're in the movie." "I just have a bad feeling about the whole thing." Daptin said, his frost flame flaring. "Now Millicent," Granticaine said, "just where are you from and what method did you employ to get here?" "Well, I'm from a place called Canada, and I got here from a spell I read in an old book in the school library." "And girl," Granticaine said gently, "what exactly do you intend to do now that you're here?" "I just, you know, I just wanted to join you on your journey. You know, be friends with you." "Uh-huh." Granticaine said. "And just how are you planning on getting back?" "I don't know." Millicent said brightly. -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----