Hi! In this chapter, and many others of this the characters of Mineral Town will be swtiching places! I hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I do not own Harvest Moon.

When Claire awoke she was surrounded by the very group that had caused her to faint, plus one blond girl that was scribbling notes on a piece of scrap paper. The girl wore a pair of overly large glasses, but it looked as if she couldn't see through them at all, and she too, wore a chicken atop her head. One of the boys, the blond one, was sitting in a chair and strocking the chicken that was atop his head earlier lovingly, While the other stomped around in what was supposively anger. The red headed girl jumped back and then gave curtsie, trying to look as ladylike as possible.

"I always hated this part." the girl murmured. "Hello, Young madam!" the girl said, giving another curtsie. "What brings you here to our humble town?" she asked, not waiting for an answer, she introduced herself. "I am Ann, the humble maid of the Inn. You hath fainted on the floor of my father's Inn wilst watching us preform the beginning the Holiday ritual. Therefore we hath takeneth you to The Land Of Many Books, where the smartest and wisest person in all of our town resides." she said as she motioned towards the blond girl. She didn't look to be the wisest or smartest person in all the town though.

"My name is Karen." the girl sighed in a bored tone. "Whats your problem?" she added.

"Karen! Don't be so rude! Mary would never say something like that!" the girl whom called herself Ann hissed. "She is a guest! You should treat her with respect!" Ann chastised.

"Whatever. When is this thing gonna be over? I will never know how in the world Mary survives without drinking 50,063.3 bottles of wine a day."

"Easy, she normal, unlike you!" the boy petting the chicken commented.

"Oh hush, Gray! Aren't you supposed to be acting like Rick! Rick would never say something like that!" Ann said.

"I'm petting a chicken! Isn't that enough!" he screeched. Said chicken was now spooked and began to fly around madly, pecking at people and books as it headed for who knows where.

"Either way poor Mary's probably sick by now. No human can withstand that much wine." Ann commented.

"Aren't you supposed to be nice? Calling me inhuman isn't a very ladylike thing to do. I'm pretty sure Elli would never say something like that!" Karen huffed. The brunet all the while, was still stomping around mumbling something about how his grandfather and whining about how he'd never be as good of a blacksmith as him. Karen pushed up her glasses and said: "I can't see anything with these stupid glasses!" she screeched as she threw them to the ground. "I don't see why in the world I've got to wear them!" she screamed as she stomped wholeheartedly on them.

"Mary's gonna be angry that you destroyed her only pair of glasses." the brunet commented, then went back to grumbling.

"Yeah Cliff's right! She only has that pair, and Mary is really, really scary when she's angry." Gray said as he attempted yet, once again failed to capture the chicken. All the while Claire was numbly crawling about, trying to find an escape route while they were still all distracted. Soon she had found a window and hopped out of it running to hide in the nearest building she could find, but not before Ann noticed and screamed:

"Hey that girl is leaving! We've got to get her!"

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