Muse: What the hell? I can't come out anymore?
Vegeta: I can't beat on Muse?
Goku: Yea! Muse can't fondle me anymore!
Muse: fumes
Jewel: Um, I post this story on media miner now too. You can keep coming out. waves at those confused readers on mm.org
Muse: smirks, promptly fondles Goku
Goku: MEEP!
Vegeta: sends Muse flying with a well-placed kick
Vegeta: comforts shaken Kakarot, scowls This is becoming a bad habit.
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He really wasn't sure what woke him up. Something missing. Something that had always been. He slipped from the bed, padded quietly across the room to listen at the door. The quiet murmur of the brook in the distance, the wind chimes. Nothing out of place. He started down the hallway, stopping every few steps to scent the air and listen, instincts on alert. Something wasn't right.
He understood when he reached her room. It was her energy signal that was missing. Quietly, he crossed the room. She looked peaceful, the lines of pain and worry he'd always noticed gone now. "Goodbye, Mother."
He returned to his room.
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Jewel: Well, I've seen shorter chapters.
Vegeta: Really?
Jewel: Read something written by Sylvester Stallone. He's got chapters one sentence long. One short sentence.
long silence
Jewel: Er, um, yeah, I have read actual books written by the above person.
long silence
Jewel: Muse, maybe you better work on that reconciliation thing.
Trunks: Yeah! Do that!
Goten: Wait, aren't I still mad at you?
Truten: look at Muse
Muse: mad at Vegeta
Muse: deliberates, shakes head no
Truten: We're getting together?
Muse: shrugs, not being happy with Truten, either
Goku: pleading Son puppy dog eyes
Muse: smirks
Goku: hides behind Vegeta
Vegeta: lets him