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Ax: I recognized his tone. Sarcasm. It is a form of humor. So I laughed using mouth sounds. "Hah hah hah. Hah. Hah," I considered, then added, "Hah." Prince Jake, Cassie, Marco, Rachel, and Tobias, in his own human morph, all stared at me. "What was that?" Rachel demanded. "I laughed." "Don't...don't do that, Ax," Prince Jake said. "It's disturbing somehow." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Every time we start to take something for granted we end up getting hammered," Jake warned. He grinned in anticipation. "We'd have to be nuts to get careless." No one laughed. "I say, we'd have to be NUTS...oh, fine. Don't laugh. I don't care." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Wait! Shouldn't there be some kind of ceremony or something?" Cassie said. "Like what?" Marco asked. "You want us all to join hands and sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner'?" "No, I don't know all the words," Cassie said. With a sly grin she added,"We could sing 'MMM-Bop'." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jake: We needed to leave the classroom. I said I had to hurl and ran out. Seconds later, Rachel got sick, too. She also had to hurl. Then Marco left the classroom he was in. Marco, being Marco, told his teacher he had to rush out to put on one of those Nicoderm patches. "I'm trying to break the smoking habit!" he yelled. "Don't stop me!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have to get going," Cassie said. "I have horses to feed and bird cages to clean." "Don't say the word 'cage' around Tobias," Marco said. "He'll do some guerrilla-commando-Ninja-SWAT-team-hawk-from-hell attack on the center. And he'll talk Rachel into stomping your house flat." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Should we be singing that valderee, valdera, valderee, valdera-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah song?" Marco asked. "I mean, we are 'a-wandering.'" "Marco, you should never be singing anything," Rachel said. "I've heard you sing." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marco: We all yelled helpful advice to Tobias. *Hold your breath!* *Gee, really?! Do you think?! Hold my breath?!* Tobias managed to respond. *Let go!* Ax adviced. *Why didn't I think of that?* Tobias answered. *Ahhhh!* *Start acquiring him!* Rachel said. *It'll put him in a trance.* *I am acquiring him,* Tobias said. *Guess what? He's not in a trance. Ahhhhhh!* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's the morphing that this Veleek goes after," Marco said, grinning his taunting grin. "It-or they, I should say-eat energy. It's not interested in your deep-fried hawk legs." *Come stand over here, Marco,* Tobias said. *Stand under my branch.* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am from Canada. I am Canadese," Ax told Cassie's dad. "Well, I think old Ax is handling that pretty well. You'd never guess he was an alien. An idiot, maybe. Alien, no." Marco said. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ax: "What is a nail? Nay-yul? Is it similar to mail?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
