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Stallion shook his head. His vision cleared, & he & his other were somewhere else entirely. S2 squeaked. "I couldn't watch," explained Stallion. A muffled whining told them Bruce had felt the same.
"Let's watch a movie!" he said.
"Something with subtitles?" suggested S2, having given up wondering.
"You could read me a story," said Bruce.
"You could read us one, it seems," said S2.
"Dogs have a different metabolism," Bruce admitted.
S2 bolted.
"You'd think he wasn't me, wouldn't you?" Stallion asked Bruce.
"Arf arf," yapped the Bruce, not quite tongue-tied.
"I see," said the Stallion.
"Well enough to get us back?" asked Bruce.
"Without him, I'm slightly cross-eyed," Stallion blushed.
"Without him, I'll never know you," Bruce declared & wagged his tail again.

+ + +

Cousin took the message. "I've gotta go," giving up his position.
"You can't, you're the pivot!" #3 told him.
"Don't worry," soothed Manuel, "because on the next page, Silenus reveals music's not all he can teach."

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"Are you down there?" called Geriatric Consumeri, only loudly enough to be heard by his intended in-the-basement audience, remaining unheard above the storm ensuing.
"Just as if I have nothing better to do," quipped the devil.
"May I come down?" JC persisted.
"Let me tidy up a minute."
"Okay," Jello-mold Calculator almost instantly figured the size of the crawlspace complicated by what he'd handled of Satan's use of time.
"How was the Coast Guard?" Satan asked, mischievously reclining, seductively made-up, right near his knees.
"They were fine," replied J.C., recovering his professional aplomb prior prompting, "In fact, some of them were very good," his effect only slightly shaken by his shiver.
"You can edit that, right?" he asked his producer.
"I adore your manly lack of assurance," said his new queen, "Do you want me to turn up the heat?"

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"Do you think he's coming?" whispered one unplastic. Her voice was becoming fainter.
"He's giving mixed messages," answered the Ghost, "but he always seems to make his appointments."
"Another massage?"
"Yes, please."
The hairnet hummed.

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Genuinely Cross-eyed regarded the devil.
"You've changed your sex," he observed.
"Fuck you," said Satanella, "It's something I can do."
"Granted," came J.C., slipping out.

- - -

"Look, I don't care where we go, except too much," said Rhodes.
"Me, too, neither," said Chuck.
"I do, since that lecture," said Snoddi, "so we'll go straight, following Chuck & his axe."

Desiree looked at Runni, who told her, "Our work is never done."

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"She isn't coming, is she..." said Runni's mother.
"It's hard to say," said her dad, "but I hardly think so. She's probably busy."

They gazed off into the middle distance, imagining what might have been.

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"You're dissipating, too!" one unplastic accused.
"How could I not?" said the ghost, "I refuse."

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Making slow but steady progress through the bushes, Chuck paused in his swinging. "Am I doing this right?" he wondered aloud.
Those trooping behind him had lost track of their directions, but Desiree had a feeling.
"If we go down, we'll meet my lost ones," she said.
Chuck resumed, using gravity to guide him.

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"Hey, kids!" called Runni, using unnecessary motions to negotiate the fallen logs, "Do you remember when we told you to make your own stories?"
"I was busy learning calculation," said Desiree.
"I developed a fondness for animals," said Rhodes.
"& you couldn't share?"
"We didn't know your address," said the twins, "let alone your sad forwarding."
"Snoddi?" begged Runni.
"Paint another place to sleep," he suggested, " they're a lot more you than I."
"Physically, sure," she paused, "but I think they like you better."
"No, darlin"," Snoddi gave her, "Where's Stallion?"
"Should I keep chopping?" asked the new guy.

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"You could pretend we're strangers," snorted Stallion, but squinting a bit, "You could pretend you know what brought you here. You could thank me for coming."
S2 was wild-eyed. He recognized his former self, but wasn't willing to address his own implications.
"Will you get on with it?" whined Bruce.
"We will," the horses answered, "if you'll avert your eyes."
"That's MY problem," barked Bruce, "Yours is nothing I haven't seen."
"...Dogs are different, aren't they?" Stallion asked S2.
"They're little-known for their squeamishness," S2 answered.

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"Hey!" Bruce says, "I'd deny your assertion, if I thought it was relevant."
"I'd question you, too, but we've been doing it for years," said his tape worm.
Will he, nil he?

He will, having become "overly anxious."

+ + +

"No harm, no foul!" applied Desiree, without thinking.
"Yes, you are," said her mother, "You're thinking what you say is less important than how you meant it."
"No, I'm not!" she not so much as exclaimed as proclaimed suprise.

"That will get you to where I remember starting," said Runni, "your father should know more."
"How could he-did you let him?"
"I tried."

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"I'm still trying," grumbled Chuck, swinging his axe wildly, "to understand what you mean by straight." Not being all that good at directions, he was concentrated.

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Desiree rested on one of Chuck's stumps.
"Is something wrong, sis?" asked Rhodes.
"I think I'm distracting," she sighed.
"You can still examine your motives?" he asked, hopefully.
"I know what I display," she answered without remorse.

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"Do you think there'll be a problem?" asked Manuel?
#3 checked his book. "Not unless Jukebox Charisma predicts it."
"I can guarantee there will be," said Silenus.
...
"Is he always so negative?" Manuel asked #3.
"No, he's just old," said #3.

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Rhodes decided to write his own story.
"She survived her childhood with only scratches & bruises," he began composing in his mind, "but couldn't help pretending her injuries had been more severe. Before very long she concluded her time was more limited than anyone else's & acted it by imagining illnesses. "Do you think I want to feel this way?" she asked her brother, once or twice. "Yes," he told her, "or at least it seems so," as usual careful of her feelings.
Desiree's competence at reading her twin's mind had been improved by the products of her "accidents" with the merman, so she couldn't help grinning as she said, "NICE! But can you write that with a STRAIGHT face?"
"Sis!" Rhodes excaimed, "Does that matter?"
"I've found it...useful, now & again," she said to him.

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"It's funny," said Silenus, "you don't know what's been laid down."
"The rules I need are in my book," said #3.
"I like his answers better," said Manuel.
"Fucking primitives!" said Silenus, "I should have known."
The merman interjected, "I live in the sea. My rules might be too clear."
"No," said Silenus, "You don't need to know them."
"Like the others don't need to know themselves?" asked the merman.
Silenus smiled.
The merman blanched, & got out the oil.
#3 & Manuel shared a smile & retreated.

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"I don't think we're going to get there, sis," said Rhodes.
"Oh, really?" she told him archly, "& where is "there," exactly?"
"The top of yonder hill," he responded, confused, "but I'm afraid we might get arrested for Chuck's ministrations."
"Oh, bro'!" said Desiree, fondly, "I thought you might still be worried about the slums."
The ground rumbled behind her.
"You lot need to settle down!" she grumbled back.
The statue seemed to move, then did.
As luck would have it, a storm blew up out of nowhere.
"Thanks for the vacation, honey!" said one unplastic.
"Thanks for coming," replied the Ghost of Igor.
"Kids!" called Runni, "What are you doing back there?"
"We're figuring out what's important," they called back.

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"You like to say crap like that, don't you?" Desiree challenged, with a wink.
"Yes, I guess I do," said Rhodes, "I thought you knew that."
"Kids!" yelled Runni, "FORMATION!"

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They looked at her.
"No, kids, look!" claimed Runni, "The sun is coming up!"
"Was it dark out?" to each other, with a glance. "You're looking through the statue's armpit," said Rhodes to their mother, "At that tilt, it's about 3PM."
Runni had a moment.
"How can you ignore THEM?" Rhodes asked his sister.
"Ignore who?" she asked him back.
"This hillside, that hillside, stranded on beaches worldwide: they're your children, Desiree!"
"Look up, Rhodes. The sky is full of sparkly dirt."
"Dad!" cried Rhodes.
"Son?" answered Snoddi, from his distraction.
"A little moral support?" Rhodes whined & almost growled; a trick he had learned from the puppies.
"I haven't got any," Snoddi truthed.
Rhodes decided, right then & there, to continue with his autobiography.

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<<"Well, you see what I was doing?" said Runni.
"Nobody has so far, my dear," Snoddi gave her back.

The nets chose that moment to gang up on their mother.
Their mother did her usual: "IS THERE ANYTHING WRONG WITH ALLOWING YOUR OPINIONS TO SWAY?" she asked them.>>

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Jelly-filled Corollaries pretended he didn't hear. "Wtf are you talking about?" he asked.
"Wtf do you mean?" asked Desiree, pretending sweetly, "Why are you even here?"
"I follow the storms," said Jeremiah, Critically.
"Mine is bigger than yours," she said.
"I think you mean "swarms"," he averred.
"You asshole!" she screamed, "Gird your loins!"
A trembling Rhodes didn't know what to do.
"Sis," he cried, "The "storms" Joyfully Communicative follows are bigger than yours."
"You lie! The skynet is only slightly dimmed."
"The skynet, sis? It's up there, but not between us & it. The Ghost of Igor is rescussitating oneunplastic."
"Mom?" Desiree gasped.
"Did you hurt something, dear?" called Runni back, from ahead.
"Rhodes has been writing stories about you!"
"Desiree, darling, I've been listening to the news. We've got to find shelter or we might lose our internet connection. What did your children say?"
"They told me I was a bad mother," softed Desiree.
"I've been told the same," said Runni, patting her own back at the same time as her daughter's.
"Mom, what are you doing? I think I felt your boobs jiggle against mine!"
"Dad?" claimed Rhodes.
"I'd like to complicate the situation," said Stallion, coming in inappropriately, twitching his tail at his other & their other, "We're here!"
"You prove why <3 is an inappropriate symbol for love," Chuck opined.
"I could spank you again," allowed Runni, "You LIKE not even knowing where you are."

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The sky grumbled, not the skynet.
The statue's urges seemed to be shifting.
"You can't like not knowing WHO you are," persisted Runni.
"You have a mean streak, don't you?" Snoddi asked her, shocked.
"The hamsters," she crooned.
"I ate them," Chuck said, "maybe you can paint something good?"

"He's afraid," said Desiree, "I didn't recognize his scent at first!"
"Mine?" asked the Merman, at the head of the groundnet.
"You never explained your seafoals," Desiree answered back without missing a beat.
"Let's just say we traded," said the Merman.
"Since the group's almost all here," drawled Silenus, having rudely left behind #3 & Manuel, "we can decide who to kill."
"No!" cried Runni & Desiree, who looked at each other in surprise, never having before agreed out loud, even though they both feared the Satyr.
"Yes," said the Satyr, "your votes might count."

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"Look at them," rumbled the Ghost.
one unplastic peered over the edge of their cloud. "So?"
"Look again. You're unnatural. They & I are not."
"Oh," she said, puzzled, "but I used to be visible."
"So you will be again, by their actions through your effects, when I dump you," Igor told her.
"BEST VACATION EVER!" she enthused, totally missing the hurt in his eyes.
TGoI looked at her in disbelief & let go.

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Their companions on the ground wouldn't feel the effects until later.

- + -

"Yeah, well," said Snoddi, smoking in bed, "to have any conception is only not to have to worry about all your other ones."

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"You don't hear me, sis, though you're critical enough. Our saving graces didn't come from your usage."
"Ah," said Desiree, "but your projections aren't productive."
"Yes," admitted Rhodes, "but I'm still hoping."
[Witness Rhodes had some problems disassociating anybody.]
"Are you insane?" his sister countered, "The statue is still going down!"
...Indeed, it now appeared to be around 8.

+ - -

#3 & Manuel were having what passed for tea in the beigeness of the loft.
"This tastes funny," said #3.
"Or as if it should," agreed Manuel.

--+

"Where are you going?" Runni asked Snoddi as he veered off Chuck's path.
"9 or 10, I should think," answered Snoddi, "I'll be back."
"Alrighty, then," she demurred, as oneunplastic's essence poured down.

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"You may think about it however you like, as I might not," scrawled one unplastic through their minds.
"I thought we were into population control," said Rhodes, as she scratched his neck.
"I could do that," she came back, "but I'd rather not."
Rhodes never saw her coming, but was more surprised to see her go.
"I have business with the father of my children," said Desiree, "but I'll be back to discuss why you're so stupid."
"Okay," said Rhodes, feeling his sister was feeling dizzy as well.

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Feeling safe, for the moment, from his sister's predacious mind-reading, Rhodes decided:
<<"I've been misled!" shrieked Runni.
"It wasn't by me," claimed Snoddi.>>
"wtf are you doing?" asked Desiree, having returned.
"I thought you were with the Merman," gulped Rhodes.
"Yeah, well, they're not only the slowest fishes in the sea, they're also the quickest," Desiree blushed, but then accessed her children. The Stallions snorted, as did Bruce. "Mom," she texted, "he's doing it again!"
"We're busy," Runni texted back.
"FUCK!" said Desiree, "It's like they don't care."
"They care more deeply than you think, sis," said Rhodes, "Were you dizzy when you ran off?"
"Yes," admitted Desiree, "but I remember what I wanted to tell you."

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Predictably, if oddly bravely, Rhodes continued:
<<Runni's new space wasn't to her liking either, so she needed to vent. Snoddi tolerated.
"Do you do that on purpose?" he eventually asked.
"Do what?" she asked him back.
"I guess not," was all that entered his mind.>>
"Mom!" Desiree sent.
"Deal with it, honey," Runni sent back, "Snoddi takes a little longer."
"Damn it!" Desiree cussed.
"What's the matter, sis?" asked Rhodes, innocently, as if the two-way street was closed.
"She's always one-upping me," his twin answered.
"Not really, D," said Rhodes.

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Chuck needed a rest.
The Stallions closed ranks & nuzzled him affectionately. Bruce whined a little, but wagged his tail, atop S2's withers.
Silenus was sweating for the first time in forever. "Is your course clear?" he asked Chuck.
"Yes," answered Chuck, "It just isn't cleared yet."
"I could lend you a hand," offered the satyr.
"Can your cloven hooves withstand this?" asked Chuck, taking a very solid swing.

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Runni & Snoddi appeared ahead of the party.
"Chuck!" called Runni, "There's a perfectly passable path over here."
"That's what your son's afraid of," Chuck called back.
"Rhodes isn't afraid of anything, really," grumbled Snoddi.

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Manuel & #3 were playing backgammon.
"Do you think we should tidy up before they get back?" asked Manuel.
"Do you think they're coming back?" asked #3.
There was a knock at the door, & a ruckus from the puppies.
"Who can that be?" asked #3.
"I'll put on some pants & find out," said Manuel.
The visitors were Runni's parents.
"Look at this mess!" said her mother, grabbing a rag & some disinfectant.
"Indeed," said her father, "Boys, we need to talk."
The boys looked abashed. #3 realized he'd forgotten his pants.
"Go put some pants on," said Runni's dad.
Her mom had been averting her eyes, but looked up as he hurried away. "Nice!" she thought.
"Dear!" said her husband.
"Did I say that out loud?" she asked him.
"You didn't need to," he answered, & got out a mop & some trash bags.

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Satan looked himself in his opposite eyes. Unlike a vampire, he had no problem withe mirrors. "Should I or shouldn't I?' he asked himself, glancing back & forth between the reflections.
"You silly fucker," hisself answered, "of course you should."
The devil smiled at himself, for the umpteenth time, & fixed his hair.

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"Did you hear that?" asked #3, actually quivering hard enough that Manuel could feel it.
"Of course I did," Manuel replied, "My training was as inclusive as yours, it seems."
"My training gave me a license," #3'd.
"My training gave me license," said Manuel.
"So, should we open the door?" #3 wondered.
"I hardly think so," Manuel grinned, "You remember what he did to Jamming Cannotti?"
"He's still chasing storms," answered #3, puzzled.
"& reporting on them," said Manuel.
There was a howl from the basement, & they shared a chuckle.

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The Ghost of Igor rained some more, like a lukewarm shower, forcing the traces of oneunplastic into the ground, where she immediately began consorting with the groundnet.
"Well, hello there!" said Satan.
"Oh, no you don't!" said oneunplastic, "I won't have you polluting this place."
"I was here first," said the devil.
"No you weren't," said the Merman, preparing to defend his hybrids.

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"We're lucky, you know, sis?"
"wtf do you mean, Rhodes?"
"We're fantastically situationalized."
"Stop making up words."
"I'm not."

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"Sis," said Rhodes, "What the hell ARE we doing?"
"We're following a path, Rhodes. Maybe yours."
"Y'aint," he said, "I don't draw them."
"Such pretty pictures," she said, "perhaps not, but you have certain cants."
"Kids!" called Runni from her placement, "Chucks chopped a trail to the established path."
Snoddi groaned & resided.
"My ass is sore," he said.
"Not yet, soldier," said Rhodes.
"Okay, son," said Snoddi, "What is it then, now then?"
"You must see the light?" Rhodes was desperate.
"From the tilt of the statue," said Snoddi, "It's the day after tomorrow."
"The slums don't care me anymore, Dad," said Rhodes.
Snoddi showed his teeth, but admitted, "They don't scare me any less."

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Stallion looke @ S2. "Were you dizzy?"
"I was not," answered his other self, stiffly, "Were you?"
"No," said Stallion, "LOOK! What we've been trying hasn't been working..."
"You can't think I don't know that," said S2.
"No," agreed Stallion, "Look me in the eyes!"
"I gladly would, but you're not focused."

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"Is there any way we could get to Brazil?" asked Runni's Mom of her Dad.
"Not unless you have a line to a stallion," he said, & winked.
"I thought you were innured or immaculate or something," she admitted, "so I thought you'd never ask."
They shared a chuckle. The boys returned, pantsed.
"It looks like we got dressed for nothing," said #3,
"Back to the game?" asked Manuel.
"Just call Silenus," said his practicality, "he knows how to reach the Stallions."

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"Let's try a little extra commiseration, sis," said Rhodes.
"Here hear!" said Snoddi, "While appreciating your efforts @ comradery, I don't know if that's an appropriate statement, son. Are you in pain?"
"He was talking to me, Dad," said Desiree, having given up pretense, "Your regard's not unwelcome, just unnecessary."
"Desiree!" exclaimed Runni, "Be nice. They're more emotionally fragile.
Stallion shouldered his extra. "Incoming!" he said.
"Where?" asked S2.
"2 o'clock, NNE. Runni's parents need a ride."
The statue's arm had not yet broken, but was behaving like a wedge might, so reclining that night fell.
"I think they meant AM," said Snoddi.
"I'm painting us to Memphis before they get here," said Runni.
The Stallions both snorted.
Bruce said, "Arf."
Silenus nudged his Cousin, who ignored him.
"How's the fishing around here?" TACO asked the Merman.
"Are you paying attention?" the Merman questioned back.
"Tennessee?" squawked Snoddi.
"Don't be a parrot," said Runni.
"I never wanted to be a parent," said Snoddi, mishearing.
"But you are," she said, also.

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"Oh, my aching back," grumbled Stallion.
"Mine, too," said S2, "What have these people been eating?"
"Not much of what's good for them," said Stallion, "no matter what they believe."
"We get to see her," said Runni's mother.
"Not if she's quick enough with a brush," said her father, "& as you well know, she is."
"Yeah, I taught her that."

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#3 looked at Manuel. Manuel looked back.
"Do-overs?"
"Si."

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Runni looked up in alarm. Chuck ceased his swinging. The statue's armpit was within reach. "Snoddid, may I use your shoulder?" Runni asked.
"Not yet," Snoddi answered, "but between my blades should accommodate you."
Their kids looked on, agassed, as Runni trod his spine. She got what she wanted.
"Are you sure those spores won't alter the ecosystem?" asked Snoddi.
"Give me another & I'll tell you," said Runni.
"There are times you're too focused," came Snoddi, "but in front of the children?"
"Dad!" bot kids screamed, "Beware where she's painting you!"

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<Ants Around a Firepit. "Sometimes it's too hot here." "Other times it's way too cold." "The earth can be tunnelled..." "...so we stay." "You feel that satisfying grumble?" "I did. We're helping build.">

"Mom!" cried Desiree.
"I know, dear. Give me a minute."


"She didn't really just do that!" exclaimed Runni's mom as Stallion slid to a halt.
"She's not here," said her dad, looking around from S2's shoulders, "nor is her worthless paramour."
"Aw, he's cute from the pictures," said her mom, "& we never got an invitation."

S2 looked at Stallion, who MET his eyes.

--+

oneunplastic was getting along famously with the groundnet. They viewed her as their potential mouthpiece, while she viewed their vendetta against their brethren as so like her feelings for TGOI, everyone was happy.

The skynet & the Ghost sensed incoming.

His cousin & Silenus shared a glance which said, "We've got to get out of here."
So they did.

"You again?" cried #3.
"Do you pay the mortgage?" asked Silenus. He was a little disoriented 'cuz his cousin had not been unkind on the trip, but he was still a little sore. "Have you got any leftovers?" he asked Manuel, who'd not made up his appearance.
"No, we have dogs," said Manuel, "but I can whip something up for you."
"I'll wait under the table," grumbled TACO.
"I'll wash some dishes," said #3.

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"That gets harder every time," said Snoddi, shaking his head, not collecting his thoughts, "Where are we?"
"We're in Memphis, Sugar," Runni joked.
"Tennessee?" Snoddi choked.
"You went to college, right?" she asked.
"I was in high school," Snoddi blushed.
"Were you ashamed of your body?"
"Not really."
"Were you ashamed of your mind?"
"Not at all."
"So, where are we?'
"'taint Tennessee," said Snoddi.
"Check your maps," said Runni.
"I might," he said, "if I had GPS."
Runni snorted so loudly that Bruce heard her.

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"Roundabout, boys!" he barked.

"Grandma!" cried Desiree.
"Grandpa!" cried Rhodes.

"Did you hear something?" asked Runni's mom.
"I turned my aid off," said her dad.
The Stallions galloped to Memphis.

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"Rhodes?" asked Desiree, unlike herself, "Why is it so hard to communicate with our family?"
"They think we're unnatural, sis," & Rhodes blushed again.

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"I didn't think this trip would take so long," said Runni's mother.
"I might be wrecked," said her Dad, "but I think these boys are homing in."
The Stallions shook their heads & picked up the pace.

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"Well?" called TACO, from under the table.
"It's almost ready!" Manuel called back.
#3 took some satisfaction in having the dishes squeaky-clean.

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It was full dark in Rio.
"Are you sure it's not just the Statue?" Desiree asked her brother.
"No, I'm not," answered Rhodes, "but we're here now & I confess I'm afraid."
"It's a path that needs no chopping," said Chuck, "& I still have my axe..."

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<Thinking too hard had hurt the girl. Talking to her brother never helped. It was funny, in a way.>

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"Runni?" came Snoddi, "Could you paint us back to Rio, or Rhodes a ticket here? He & I need to talk."

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Desiree realized she had no one to whine at, & that one-unplastic was in control of the ground-net at almost the same time.
"CHUCK!" she screamed, "The easy path is making him worse."
"Careful, D," he said, becoming familiar, "we're being approached."

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Runni looked at Snoddi in much the same way as usual, as if he was retarded.
"Honey," she said, "They're on their own."

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"Hey, bro'!" said Desiree, "We're emancipated!"
"When weren't we?" asked Rhodes, "They're not going to help, are they?"
"Maybe not," said Desiree, "but we have Chuck."
"Are you hungry?" Chuck asked them, "You can see you're not alone."

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"Well, some of them seem to have a sense of humor, anyway," said Desiree, disgruntled.
"I can't see how they contribute," said Rhodes.
"You need to look harder," said Chuck, "Look at me!"

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