Title: All In Your Head
Author: Waffles 'R' Us
Word Count: 335
Warnings: N/A
Comments: Originally meant to be a multi-chaptered fic, but abandoned in the end.
Oh, yes. Hahn was having the time of his life.
Stuck out in the middle of the ocean, floating on a slab of ice.
To make things worse?
He had a companion.
Stupid koala-otter.
Ever since he'd been thrown off that boat by that evil admiral-person, he'd been stranded in the water. And then that... thing showed up. It just floated there, all day. Swimming around Hahn's makeshift flotation device.
Swimming.
And swimming.
And swimming.
And swimming.
And swi- Anyway.
Maybe it wanted something. Maybe it was just stupid.
The loser.
Heh. Maybe it was a mirage.
Hahn promptly slapped himself. "Get over yourself. Maybe it has a perfectly innocent reason to be breathing your air."
"And now I'm talking to myself."
He could have sworn he heard a sound distinctly like that of a laugh.
Stupid koala-otter.
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Day two, and he was beginning to go insane.
He woke sometime after dawn, pulling himself from a wonderful dream.
"And there was a smorgasbord of reindeer meat, whale, seal jerky, and... koala-otter," he sighed, a far-off expression as he recalled the wonderments of his slumber. With the last item on the list, he looked down at the animal swimming beside him, whom he'd recently dubbed "Dinner," implying he planned to eat the poor thing.
Dinner was obviously not paying attention.
"Look you, we're in this together. If I go down, you're going down with me." He pondered this. "Well, actually, you're a native of the ocean. You'll be able to walk... er, swim away from this, no harm done. Probably off to have a little banquet of fish. Ooh, very good idea. Dinner, go fetch me a fish to eat."
Dinner just blinked.
"... Oh Spirits, I'm talking to a koala-otter. Great Ocean Spirit, if you intend to let me live through this ordeal or not, send me a sign!"
It immediately start raining, while far-off thunder grew louder by the minute.
"I'm going to take that as a maybe."
