322 - Popped In and Out

2023

 Karanthir          Zyfan             Orrie           Charlotte

KARANTHIR:

How peculiar, it feels as if … 

KARANTHIR:
… Herita?

KARANTHIR:
… My prince what’s happened to you ? You look simply exhausted.

ZYFAN:
I have just returned from a place called Iguanaland. 

KARANTHIR:
The reptile zoo? What in the world were you doing there?

ZYFAN:
You brother Orrie begged me to take him, I mean,
he said you were going to take him but …

KARANTHIR:
I told him no such thing. Besides, he and I already explored it.
Quite frankly, I told him it was not a place I needed to visit again. 

ZYFAN:
Well, he really wanted to go and I did not want to disappoint him. 

KARANTHIR:
You’re such a softie. 

ZYFAN:
Do you know I had to carry him, on my shoulders, most of the day?

KARANTHIR:
Told you he was tired, did he? 

ZYFAN:
Yes.  

KARANTHIR:
And his little legs were just too small for him
to go on any further.

ZYFAN:
How do you know this?

KARANTHIR:
That’s exactly what he did to me, and like you,

 I fell for it until … 

KARANTHIR:
I put him down and he ran off like the wind,
it was all I could do to catch the little lad. 

ZYFAN:
Yes! I did not realize he could run so quickly.

KARANTHIR:
My poor prince, you’re at such a disadvantage
being the youngest in your family.

ZYFAN:
Am I to understand that he was playing games with me?
How could that be? He is just a small child.

KARANTHIR:
He’s a very clever small child.

ZYFAN:
Apparently so. Do you know he insisted I buy him a snack
called cotton candy? Are you familiar with this substance?
It is the stickiest mess of … pink that I have ever encountered.  

KARANTHIR:
Ahhh, so that explains it.

ZYFAN:
Explains what?

KARANTHIR:
You carry with you a sweet aroma, of what could
only be described as the color pink. 

ZYFAN:
I am not surprised. It is all over me, including in my hair.

KARANTHIR:
I promise I’ll have a long talk with Orrie right after
I see to you. First, I’ll draw you a nice hot bath.

ZYFAN:
Oh yes, that sounds wonderful. 

KARANTHIR:
Then I’ll wash all the pink off of your person.

ZYFAN:
I shall be glad to be rid of it.

Then …

ORRIE:
Unbelievable! It is you. Hi H’rita. 

ORRIE:
… Why you not talking to me?

HERITA/CHARLOTTE:
Get back li’l boy or I’ll scratch yer eyes out.  Orrie you can see me?

ORRIE:

Why not? You right in front of me. Hey, how’d you get in there?

HERITA/CHARLOTTE:

I dunno, but I’m being popped in and out of  
‘ere everyday, an’ the only one can see me so far is you.
That witch was the first to sense me and now me sis … 

ORRIE:
Witch! What witch?

HERITA/CHARLOTTE:
Ya don’t know ya got a witch livin’ ‘ere?  She’s the
one sleepin’ in me ol’ bed she is.

ORRIE:
She’s no witch, she’s T’ariel.

HERITA/CHARLOTTE:
Is that what ya call ‘er? Well, I’d keep me eye on ‘er if I
were you. She knew straight away that I were there and …

THUMP

ORRIE:
H’rita? H’rita.

ORRIE:
… Unbelievable. Where’d you go? I don’t 

see you no more. How you get out of there? 

ORRIE:
… I don’t like this game no more. Time for a cookie.