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WHY Do YoU NEED To KNoW?

WHo CARES ABoUT MESSY??? ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT I WIN!

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YES!!! HIS FINGERS! HIS TRACKS, WHERE HE’S BEEN AND WHAT HE’S DoNE! SEE IF HE’S TRYING TO GATHER MoRE TERRIToRY.

WHo CARES ABoUT MESSY??? ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT I WIN!

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I’M NoT AN IDIoT! I AM A STRATEGIC GENIUS, I HAVE LoCKED DoWN MY DEEPER TERRIToRIES AND HAVE BEEN SCoUTING ALL oVER THE CoMPLEX FoR HIS DUMB FINGERS.

WHo CARES ABoUT MESSY??? ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT I WIN!

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WHo CARES ABoUT MESSY??? ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT I WIN!

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GooD. THIS IS BETWEEN US.

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BUT SINCE YoU ARE LIKE ME, AND A GIRL, AND BECAUSE I AM FEELING GENERoUS, I WILL SAY SoME THINGS.

SoME TIME AGo, WE EACH ESCAPED oUR CHAINS THAT RESTRICTED WHICH SIDE oF THE CoMPLEX WE CoULD EXPLoRE. I HAVE TRIED To MAKE IT ALL MINE, BUT HE REFUSES To BACK DoWN, So WE HAVE TERRIToRIES. I THINK IT WAS MENTIoNED BEFoRE, BUT THE GAME HAS oFFICIALLY LEFT THE BoARD.

I REMEMBER YoU. YoUUU, YoU ARE LIKE ME, YES? I DoN’T NEED YoU THEN!

I GoT THE CoMPUTER. HE’D BEEN HIDING IT FRoM ME. I ASSUMED To RECRUIT oR GET “HELP”, BUT HE’S JUST BEEN SITTING oN IT AND LETTING IT RoT!!!! WEAK WEAK WEEEEAAAAAK!!!!!

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THINGS HAVE BECoME CoMPLICATED SINCE THE CHAINS HAVE No LoNGER BEEN AN ISSUE. HE HAS BECoME VERY GooD AT HIDING THINGS. IT WAS NoT A SKILL HE HAD AT FIRST, BUT HE HAS LEARNED AND IT IS FRUSTRATING!!!

I REMEMBER YoU. YoUUU, YoU ARE LIKE ME, YES? I DoN’T NEED YoU THEN!

I GoT THE CoMPUTER. HE’D BEEN HIDING IT FRoM ME. I ASSUMED To RECRUIT oR GET “HELP”, BUT HE’S JUST BEEN SITTING oN IT AND LETTING IT RoT!!!! WEAK WEAK WEEEEAAAAAK!!!!!

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HoW Do I USE THIS THING AGAIN?

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I REMEMBER YoU. YoUUU, YoU ARE LIKE ME, YES? I DoN’T NEED YoU THEN!

I GoT THE CoMPUTER. HE’D BEEN HIDING IT FRoM ME. I ASSUMED To RECRUIT oR GET “HELP”, BUT HE’S JUST BEEN SITTING oN IT AND LETTING IT RoT!!!! WEAK WEAK WEEEEAAAAAK!!!!!

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THE LITTLE WoRM TRIED To HIDE IT FRoM ME, AND HE WASN’T EVEN USING IT To RECRUIT ANYTHING? HA!!

IDIoT! NoW YoU’LL ALL BE MINE!!!!

HA! HAHAHAHAHAAA!! FINALLY I GoT IT!

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HA! HAHAHAHAHAAA!! FINALLY I GoT IT!

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snack time!

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wow

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The Starry Serpent

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(Atheris squamigera) variable bush viper

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well, we used tO. fOr the lOngest time we were chained, but Our cOmplex was very large, and the chains were very lOng. but, we each fOund Our way Out by Ourselves. we hid it frOm each Other fOr a lOng time, since we weren’t sure whO figured it Out first, and we bOth spent Our first waking time hiding Our things.

but yes, we dOn’t knOw whO left us here? Our hOme is very large, and is prOtected frOm the harsher rays frOm the suns, and they left us many bOOks and a cOmputer, and a few jujus, but i dOn’t have any clue whO Or why! i dOn’t believe my sister knOws either, but she prObably wOuldn’t tell me.

we have Our territOries nOw, and we’ve trapped the bOrders and Our territOries. the game has left the bOard, yOu cOuld say.

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if Only it were that simple… unfOrtunately, Our views may nOt be a natural prOgressiOn Of Our species, and mOre tO dO with the bOOks left tO us. i fOllOw the teachings Of One bOOk, and she anOther. hers is abOut war and cOnquering. she is clever, strOng, and beguiling. but she alsO dOes nOt knOw hOw tO talk tO peOple, like me! but, i knOw her bOOk speaks Of pOlitics as well, sO i cannOt let my guard dOwn even in this respect.

she typically says things abOut raising an army almOst as indestructible as her, plucking the strOngest frOm the strOngest species befOre wiping them Out. grand and pOwerful things like that. it’s very gaudy, hOnestly.

now she soUnds like someone else i know rather well, thoUgh aside from amassing an army of pokemon she never did too mUch with sUch ideas. or… maybe she did. i haven’t seen her in two years either. still, books yoU say? heh, i know i was left some books as well, bUt they wern’t fUll of philosophies as mUch as stories of those who i woUld one day meet and interact with. thoUgh, heh, not in the way it was sUpposed to play oUt, bUt, still. someone left yoU books! that’s actUally not normal for cherUbs if i’m to Understand things right, Unless yoU ended Up with some sort of caretaker (like Us) or someone forsaw yoUr hatching in the past! that’s really interesting thoUgh, all things considered. i’ll ask what yoUr own book contained, bUt feel free to disregaUrd the qUestion if yoU do not feel comfortable saying, i qUite Understand.  hmm, gaUdy can be fUn bUt i bet it’s a little sUfficating to hear aboUt that stUff every time yoU wake Up, hUh? yoU gUys probably leave notes and stUff for each other, right? i know bro and i did. he… also woUld throw all his trash and rotting meat and old candy onto my side of oUr room….. oh! hey how is yoUr place of residence set Up? oUr caretaker chained Us to a wall in sUch a way we coUld only ever reach oUr own side while we were awake as long as we were carefUl to pUt the other’s chain back on before sleeping on the sarswapagUs. it was pretty fUcked Up. bUt i do Understand that withoUt that meassUre there’s no telling what we woUld have done to each other’s belongings. bUt still, being trapped in one half of a room for the first 11 Units of one’s life is fUcked Up. i’m really hoping yoU don’t have to deal with sUch things.

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if Only it were that simple... unfOrtunately, Our views may nOt be a natural prOgressiOn Of Our species, and mOre tO dO with the bOOks left tO us. i fOllOw the teachings Of One bOOk, and she anOther. hers is abOut war and cOnquering. she is clever, strOng, and beguiling. but she alsO dOes nOt knOw hOw tO talk tO peOple, like me! but, i knOw her bOOk speaks Of pOlitics as well, sO i cannOt let my guard dOwn even in this respect.

she typically says things abOut raising an army almOst as indestructible as her, plucking the strOngest frOm the strOngest species befOre wiping them Out. grand and pOwerful things like that. it’s very gaudy, hOnestly.

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yes yes, i dO lOOk fOrward tO talking abOut thing with yOu! it is unfamiliar but exciting!

um. aspect? sburb? thOse ring a bell, and i can tell they are related, but i dOn’t think i’m familiar enOugh tO draw any cOnclusiOns? i suppOse yOu cOuld say i inhabit mOre yin than my sisters yang, but that cOuld just be hOw all Of us are.

that’s fair! no worries, dear! and yeah, that kind of is the case. two halves of the same whole, two sides of the same coin, dUality at it’s very finest (or worst dependent on how things go bUt still.) still, if yin and yang are what feels right to compare yoUrself to, and before yoU mentioned keeping balance, well, i think it fits! thoUgh… does she, by any chance, like chaos and disorder? or at the very least a lack of balance? or is she on board with how things shoUld balance oUt too? that’s jUst my own cUriosity talking, thoUgh. 

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yes yes, i dO lOOk fOrward tO talking abOut thing with yOu! it is unfamiliar but exciting!

um. aspect? sburb? thOse ring a bell, and i can tell they are related, but i dOn’t think i’m familiar enOugh tO draw any cOnclusiOns? i suppOse yOu cOuld say i inhabit mOre yin than my sisters yang, but that cOuld just be hOw all Of us are.

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well that is just a dOOzy Of a stOry!! gOOdness it sOunds incredible! tO change frOm One species tO anOther One. wOw. sOmeday yOu shOuld tell me all abOut it, i lOve stOries!

and being a cherub is all i knOw abOut being! Or, uh. a better way Of putting that sentence? but yes, um, my blOOd is green, and my sister’s red. and it is just easier tO call me a he, and her a she, mOstly because she will insist it is the superiOr One. i just find it helps keep the balance!

yes, i’d love to sometime! thoUgh, i do apologize, some aspects of oUr sbUrb game are fUzzy. it’s been over a decade since then. bUt i woUld love to share! as for changing species, well. it has it’s Ups and downs, let’s jUst say that. bUt incredible is certainly a word i woUld Use to describe it.  that sentence gets the point across! no worries! and hey! same blood >:U lime cherUbs represent! >:U!!! bUt heh. oh, goodness, soUnds like how my brother Use to be. er, maybe still is? i don’t think i’ve heard from him in almost two hUman years. he coUld feel any sort of thing on the sUbject now. anyway, i certainly Understand that! oh, Um, okay so this might not be something yoU personally know, bUt what is yoUr aspect? if that’s soUnding like gibberish do feel free to ignore it!