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Ah yes, to thank my reviewers of recent times! Seifer vanGriever : Thank you for your review! And don't worry...I watch this
movie 24/7 too! ^^;;
Kitala: Wow! Thanks. Repeat reviewers rule! Glad you seem to like it so
far. Jonquil Dacre: Yay! More repeat reviews! Please don't stop, if you don't I
won't! Kd Zeal: Thank you for your suggestion, really. As soon as I get a break
from AP testing I'll go back and fix things!
Blackjackkat: More repeaters! (Hugs) Thank you!!
Mika Saito: Ah, thank you! dat-angst-cuz: Thanks for your review, try to do so again, it's what keeps
me goin'!
Kenshin's sakura: Thankies Colleen! On to part three! K, I know you guys don't want to hear me talk any more, but please, if you
want me to continue, you must REVIEW! ~Kida
********************************************************* D stared blankly at Josh, slowly registering what it was the tech had said in response to his question about the phone call. "Hey, look it's not my fault ok? I promised my mom, and I didn't think she'd take me up on it while I was on the job! Jeeze! I'm sorry!" Josh cried angrily, before storming off to fume in a corner by himself. D continued to remain immobile, looking practically horrified. Seeing the shocked look on the Dunpeal's normally blank features, Nolt stopped playing cards with Meier (who became offended and immediately proclaimed victory for himself) and walked over to see if he could help. D snapped out of his stupor when Nolt's large hand descended onto his shoulder, nearly knocking him off balance. "Hey, what's wrong with you? You look really upset, what'd Josh say?" Nolt asked, looking concerned.
D sighed heavily. "We're expected to baby-sit Josh's five year old sister for him tomorrow." D mumbled looking miserable, before turning towards the second oldest Markus brother to see his reaction to this truly dreadful news. Surprisingly, instead of looking unhappy, as D had expected, Nolt grinned broadly. "Hey, that's great! This'll be fun I love kids!" Nolt proclaimed, before walking off to spread what was, to him, a nice spot of good news. D looked disgruntled, "I shouldn't have expected sympathy from a human anyway....." He muttered resentfully, before turning around and huddling in a corner so that he blended in with the wallpaper.
Nolt soon found, much to his dismay, that with the exception of Charlotte and Caroline he was the only fan of little children in the room... and Caroline didn't really count... she just wanted to eat them. Most of the others responded much in the same way D had, by looking severely disappointed and then marching over to vent their anger by verbally abusing Josh (who was soon seen running screaming from the room after cracking from the stress.) Everyone's mood was ruined and the group felt desolate and quite down, it wasn't even until an hour later that anyone noticed that D was missing. It was Leila who finally figured it out. She was looking for D to ask him to set a certain fact straight when she noticed that he seemed to have disappeared.
"Hey, guys?" She called, and received a few cranky replies in return. "Has anyone seen D?" Meier sat up quickly, no he had not seen the dunpeal in quite some time and this was unusual...he was always there...like some big black cloud that was getting ready to ruin someone's picnic. "Who was last to see him?" The vampire asked looking ready for action of any kind. Nolt looked confused. "I did...about an hour ago, when he told me we had to baby- sit." Mashira surprised everybody by suddenly leaping up and exclaiming, loudly. "I knew it!! I knew I saw him leave behind Josh!! He must be out! The slimy basta** left us here!" What Mashira had, in fact, seen was Josh's shadow leaving behind him...(but I guess it's not too hard to mistake a shadow for D, after all it is black...and let's see um, black)... Over to the left in his corner D continued to blend in with the dark wallpaper, normally he would have told them where he was so that they would shut up, but this was just far too amusing to stop now.
About an hour later Josh returned, having finally cooled down from all of the verbal abuse of earlier, he was looking forward to telling everyone that he had special ordered ice cream for them along with a scary movie. Yes, Josh was feeling quite pleasant until he entered the room and was tackled by Leila, which we all know would be a simply terrible experience and should be treated with mental health care straight away. "Oof!" Josh cried as the air escaped his lungs, hitting the floor knees first. He lay gasping and panting, as Leila sat on his back and rapidly fired questions at him, Mashira standing to the side and egging her on, in a not-quite- charming manner. Josh finally regained his breath and squirmed out from under the huntress. "What did you do that to me for?!?" Josh cried looking betrayed and hurt. "Haven't you even been listening!??" Leila cried. "D is gone!" Josh looked horrified...then passed out. Mashira snorted and looked peeved. "Well, he wasn't much help...let's just eat him." D decided that the joke had gone far enough, standing; he grabbed a pitcher of water off of one of the tables and walked over to dump it on Josh's face.
Everyone present stared at D in shock as Josh came to, sputtering. "Where the hell were you?" Leila asked the dunpeal, looking menacing as her hackles began rising again in their strange Ashitaka-ish way. D gazed at her as though she were something unpleasant stuck on the bottom of his long, black, and exceedingly attractive boot. "I was sitting over there minding my own business, you should actually look for people before giving poor Josh a heart attack." Leila gave D a harshly offended look before stalking off, while Josh sat up and hugged D tightly crying. "I thought you were gone!" The tech sobbed, clinging to the dark hunter. "I could just see my boss, laughing maniacally, as he tore out my innards and threw them to the crows!" D felt highly uncomfortable, he was unused to being hugged at all, much less by sobbing men. He gently pried Josh off before sliding back over to his corner and sitting down, making sure he was facing everyone so that the issue wouldn't repeat itself.
Now that all was calm once more Josh felt a bit better, he decided he would still treat the cast to ice cream and a movie and told them so. With the exception of Charlotte (who was dreading the prospect of a scary movie) they all seemed quite pleased with the proposed treat and awaited it happily. Josh walked out again, feeling better, telling the crew that he was going to gather them up some sleepwear. The gang lounged about on the newly provided couch/bed/things that Josh had gotten on sale (at a flea market), and looked over the survey cards that Josh had handed them on his way out the large steel doors. The cards had a list of four popular horror movies and a small description of each. They were to mark down which they would choose to watch and the one with the most votes at the end would win. (I know that you are all quite familiar with this drill but, sadly, the cast of VHD;B was not...it took Josh quite a while to explain it to them.) The choices were The Ring, The House on Haunted Hill, The Shining, and Evil Dead. D looked askance at the list, deciding that the descriptions made all of the movies sound quite undesirable to witness. "Why can't we just watch something happy?" He wondered sadly, as he randomly stuck a check mark next to The Ring.
The Markus brothers were all sitting together on a large couch (...it looked quite ready to collapse), trying to decide what they wanted to watch so that they could all vote on the same thing. Four votes for one movie would nearly guarantee that they would get to watch what they wanted but, there was just one problem...Grove. Poor Grove was not truly in the mood for a scary movie and was trying to pick the least scary sounding of the lot...much to the despair of his brothers who wanted some horrid, ghastly, story of doom and terror. After much debating (whining from Kyle...) Borgoff convinced the others to go along with what Grove wanted to pick. Kyle looked sulky and wandered off over to the Barboroi, to see if he could cast a better vote with them. Grove finally chose the one that had only a vaguely scary description, The Ring. When asked why he had picked that one Grove just replied that nothing could possibly be scary about a little girl.
The three Barboroi, and their recent addition of Kyle, were deciding between The House on Haunted Hill and The Shining. "I want to watch the haunted house one." Mashira stated simply. "And we're not gonna watch the Shining just cuz its got the word shine in it Kyle!" The werewolf growled, glaring as the red head opened his mouth to protest. Kyle looked pouty...he liked shiny things... "I'm with Mashira on this one," Caroline purred looking over her shoulder at the steel doors and wishing Josh would burst in so they could get changed. "I just don't think the other one sounds very good." She looked apologetically at Kyle before shrugging, and gliding to the doors to await Josh's return with pajamas. Kyle pleadingly turned to Bengee for support and Bengee glared at Kyle as though he was some despicable insect. "I'm going with whatever he doesn't want..." The shadow demon muttered as Kyle's face fell in severe disappointment.
Meier pondered each selection as carefully as possible, wishing to be thoroughly entertained, while assuring Charlotte that if things became too frightening she was perfectly welcome to hide herself in the women's restroom. Charlotte looked less than reassured and glared at Meier's back while he decided upon The House on Haunted Hill. Fortunately, before Charlotte began chewing her distinctly odd (but attractive) boyfriend out, Josh returned with a varied assortment of pajamas. The sleepwear was passed out to everyone and most went into the restrooms immediately, to change out of their own grimy, overused clothing. Everyone looked so relived to be in the soft clean materials, that no one was even complaining of some of the more lurid color schemes (Charlotte's purple and yellow plaid for example). That is...no one was complaining until poor D stepped reluctantly out of the men's room. The Dunpeal looked distinctly unhappy in the neon orange teddy bear jammies, and no one could blame him, the footies at the bottom were just too dreadful, and the large pink embroidered "hug me" on the fuzzy stomach was just beyond contemplation. This was so awful that everyone at once felt pity, and cast their eyes away...except for Kyle, who looked as though he was going to die laughing. D stared at what Kyle was wearing before turning to Josh.
"I believe he has my evening attire..." D murmured crossly, placing a pointed nail beneath a terrified Josh's chin, and gently turning his head towards the third Markus brother. Kyle had on a very nice set of black silk pajamas complete with a silken black robe. He looked very happy with the ensemble and was waving his good fortune in his older brothers faces, both of whom looked less than pleased with the situation. Borgoff had received a pair of blue and white striped, old fashioned, flannel pj's that made him look like he'd stepped out of the eighteen hundreds, and Nolt had gotten stuck with Scooby doo wear. Both looked disgruntled with their younger sibling and walked away, leaving him to the impending doom that was D. "Ack!" Kyle yelped as he was hefted into the air by the scruff of the neck. "Down!" Kyle shrieked in a panic. "Put me down!!!" He kicked and flailed pointlessly as D walked off towards the bathroom, the squirming red head held out in front of him.
A few moments later the door opened and a stripped Kyle (with a towel wrapped tightly around his waist) was flung out onto his face. Cries of disgust followed this particular action, and people fled in various directions that led away from poor abused Kyle. Staggering upright, Kyle turned angrily to retort in some physical fashion, when the door opened again, and D sauntered out. Carelessly tossing his discarded teddy jammies onto Kyle's head, D neatly spun him around, shoved him hard into the restroom, and shut the door. "Nicely done." Bengee murmured appreciatively, "Not sure if I could have done it that fast." Mashira nodded in agreement and went to congratulate the handsomely dressed Dunpeal.
Kyle re-emerged, looking dejected, after about thirty minutes, which were spent deciding whether he was going to come back outside at all. He slunk over to an unoccupied corner, and sat, staring unhappily at the fuzzy footies before attempting to rip them off. Borgoff and Nolt took this as an open invitation to make fun of their younger brother and headed off to do so while Grove tried to persuade them that Kyle had had enough. Josh managed to prevent any further happenings by bursting in through the door and announcing that the ice cream had arrived. This cheered everyone up a great deal, including Kyle, who soon seemed to forget that he was even supposed to be embarrassed. There were seven different flavors (chocolate, vanilla, cherry, strawberry, fudge ripple, lime, and peanut butter) along with a variety of ice cream type condiments (aka: whipped cream, choco syrup...). Everyone dug in looking pleased. Mashira grabbed the entire four- gallon tub of lime ice cream and walked over to his place by the soda machine, before beginning to down the contents. Looking disconsolate Borgoff and Caroline settled for cherry, seeing as wresting the lime away from Mashira probably wouldn't be worth it.
D was silently savoring his bowl of chocolate and strawberry, smothered in whipped cream, he had never enjoyed such a sugary treat before in his life, and was determined to make the absolute most of it. "Hey...D?" D looked surprised for a moment before glancing down at the glove, still covering his left hand. "Yes?" D asked, before taking in another delicious mouthful of ice cream, and trying desperately not to squirm in delight. "You, uh...wanna let me out now?" D thought this over for a moment before responding nonchalantly. "No." Left hand let out a pitiful sounding sob causing Caroline, who was sitting to his right, to turn abruptly and stare at D with her spoon halfway to her mouth. Becoming uncomfortable, D turned away from her muttering. "If you shut up, I'll let you out for the movie." This seemed to calm left hand down and he silenced himself. D sighed happily and was just settling back to enjoy his ice cream some more when there was a disturbance back at the buffet table, laden with ice cream.
"Damn horse!" Borgoff cried angrily, trying to pull D's horse's head out of the tub of vanilla ice cream (which he had been seconds away from topping his cherry sundae off with). It snorted, unhappy at being denied such a marvelous delicacy, and promptly slammed its back hoof into Borgoff's midriff. For about three seconds Borgoff stood perfectly still...then whimpered softly and collapsed. Bengee stepped over the prostrate form on the floor with only a vague amount of difficulty, and began refilling his bowl with fudge ripple.
Fear the Fans
Ah yes, to thank my reviewers of recent times! Seifer vanGriever : Thank you for your review! And don't worry...I watch this
movie 24/7 too! ^^;;
Kitala: Wow! Thanks. Repeat reviewers rule! Glad you seem to like it so
far. Jonquil Dacre: Yay! More repeat reviews! Please don't stop, if you don't I
won't! Kd Zeal: Thank you for your suggestion, really. As soon as I get a break
from AP testing I'll go back and fix things!
Blackjackkat: More repeaters! (Hugs) Thank you!!
Mika Saito: Ah, thank you! dat-angst-cuz: Thanks for your review, try to do so again, it's what keeps
me goin'!
Kenshin's sakura: Thankies Colleen! On to part three! K, I know you guys don't want to hear me talk any more, but please, if you
want me to continue, you must REVIEW! ~Kida
********************************************************* D stared blankly at Josh, slowly registering what it was the tech had said in response to his question about the phone call. "Hey, look it's not my fault ok? I promised my mom, and I didn't think she'd take me up on it while I was on the job! Jeeze! I'm sorry!" Josh cried angrily, before storming off to fume in a corner by himself. D continued to remain immobile, looking practically horrified. Seeing the shocked look on the Dunpeal's normally blank features, Nolt stopped playing cards with Meier (who became offended and immediately proclaimed victory for himself) and walked over to see if he could help. D snapped out of his stupor when Nolt's large hand descended onto his shoulder, nearly knocking him off balance. "Hey, what's wrong with you? You look really upset, what'd Josh say?" Nolt asked, looking concerned.
D sighed heavily. "We're expected to baby-sit Josh's five year old sister for him tomorrow." D mumbled looking miserable, before turning towards the second oldest Markus brother to see his reaction to this truly dreadful news. Surprisingly, instead of looking unhappy, as D had expected, Nolt grinned broadly. "Hey, that's great! This'll be fun I love kids!" Nolt proclaimed, before walking off to spread what was, to him, a nice spot of good news. D looked disgruntled, "I shouldn't have expected sympathy from a human anyway....." He muttered resentfully, before turning around and huddling in a corner so that he blended in with the wallpaper.
Nolt soon found, much to his dismay, that with the exception of Charlotte and Caroline he was the only fan of little children in the room... and Caroline didn't really count... she just wanted to eat them. Most of the others responded much in the same way D had, by looking severely disappointed and then marching over to vent their anger by verbally abusing Josh (who was soon seen running screaming from the room after cracking from the stress.) Everyone's mood was ruined and the group felt desolate and quite down, it wasn't even until an hour later that anyone noticed that D was missing. It was Leila who finally figured it out. She was looking for D to ask him to set a certain fact straight when she noticed that he seemed to have disappeared.
"Hey, guys?" She called, and received a few cranky replies in return. "Has anyone seen D?" Meier sat up quickly, no he had not seen the dunpeal in quite some time and this was unusual...he was always there...like some big black cloud that was getting ready to ruin someone's picnic. "Who was last to see him?" The vampire asked looking ready for action of any kind. Nolt looked confused. "I did...about an hour ago, when he told me we had to baby- sit." Mashira surprised everybody by suddenly leaping up and exclaiming, loudly. "I knew it!! I knew I saw him leave behind Josh!! He must be out! The slimy basta** left us here!" What Mashira had, in fact, seen was Josh's shadow leaving behind him...(but I guess it's not too hard to mistake a shadow for D, after all it is black...and let's see um, black)... Over to the left in his corner D continued to blend in with the dark wallpaper, normally he would have told them where he was so that they would shut up, but this was just far too amusing to stop now.
About an hour later Josh returned, having finally cooled down from all of the verbal abuse of earlier, he was looking forward to telling everyone that he had special ordered ice cream for them along with a scary movie. Yes, Josh was feeling quite pleasant until he entered the room and was tackled by Leila, which we all know would be a simply terrible experience and should be treated with mental health care straight away. "Oof!" Josh cried as the air escaped his lungs, hitting the floor knees first. He lay gasping and panting, as Leila sat on his back and rapidly fired questions at him, Mashira standing to the side and egging her on, in a not-quite- charming manner. Josh finally regained his breath and squirmed out from under the huntress. "What did you do that to me for?!?" Josh cried looking betrayed and hurt. "Haven't you even been listening!??" Leila cried. "D is gone!" Josh looked horrified...then passed out. Mashira snorted and looked peeved. "Well, he wasn't much help...let's just eat him." D decided that the joke had gone far enough, standing; he grabbed a pitcher of water off of one of the tables and walked over to dump it on Josh's face.
Everyone present stared at D in shock as Josh came to, sputtering. "Where the hell were you?" Leila asked the dunpeal, looking menacing as her hackles began rising again in their strange Ashitaka-ish way. D gazed at her as though she were something unpleasant stuck on the bottom of his long, black, and exceedingly attractive boot. "I was sitting over there minding my own business, you should actually look for people before giving poor Josh a heart attack." Leila gave D a harshly offended look before stalking off, while Josh sat up and hugged D tightly crying. "I thought you were gone!" The tech sobbed, clinging to the dark hunter. "I could just see my boss, laughing maniacally, as he tore out my innards and threw them to the crows!" D felt highly uncomfortable, he was unused to being hugged at all, much less by sobbing men. He gently pried Josh off before sliding back over to his corner and sitting down, making sure he was facing everyone so that the issue wouldn't repeat itself.
Now that all was calm once more Josh felt a bit better, he decided he would still treat the cast to ice cream and a movie and told them so. With the exception of Charlotte (who was dreading the prospect of a scary movie) they all seemed quite pleased with the proposed treat and awaited it happily. Josh walked out again, feeling better, telling the crew that he was going to gather them up some sleepwear. The gang lounged about on the newly provided couch/bed/things that Josh had gotten on sale (at a flea market), and looked over the survey cards that Josh had handed them on his way out the large steel doors. The cards had a list of four popular horror movies and a small description of each. They were to mark down which they would choose to watch and the one with the most votes at the end would win. (I know that you are all quite familiar with this drill but, sadly, the cast of VHD;B was not...it took Josh quite a while to explain it to them.) The choices were The Ring, The House on Haunted Hill, The Shining, and Evil Dead. D looked askance at the list, deciding that the descriptions made all of the movies sound quite undesirable to witness. "Why can't we just watch something happy?" He wondered sadly, as he randomly stuck a check mark next to The Ring.
The Markus brothers were all sitting together on a large couch (...it looked quite ready to collapse), trying to decide what they wanted to watch so that they could all vote on the same thing. Four votes for one movie would nearly guarantee that they would get to watch what they wanted but, there was just one problem...Grove. Poor Grove was not truly in the mood for a scary movie and was trying to pick the least scary sounding of the lot...much to the despair of his brothers who wanted some horrid, ghastly, story of doom and terror. After much debating (whining from Kyle...) Borgoff convinced the others to go along with what Grove wanted to pick. Kyle looked sulky and wandered off over to the Barboroi, to see if he could cast a better vote with them. Grove finally chose the one that had only a vaguely scary description, The Ring. When asked why he had picked that one Grove just replied that nothing could possibly be scary about a little girl.
The three Barboroi, and their recent addition of Kyle, were deciding between The House on Haunted Hill and The Shining. "I want to watch the haunted house one." Mashira stated simply. "And we're not gonna watch the Shining just cuz its got the word shine in it Kyle!" The werewolf growled, glaring as the red head opened his mouth to protest. Kyle looked pouty...he liked shiny things... "I'm with Mashira on this one," Caroline purred looking over her shoulder at the steel doors and wishing Josh would burst in so they could get changed. "I just don't think the other one sounds very good." She looked apologetically at Kyle before shrugging, and gliding to the doors to await Josh's return with pajamas. Kyle pleadingly turned to Bengee for support and Bengee glared at Kyle as though he was some despicable insect. "I'm going with whatever he doesn't want..." The shadow demon muttered as Kyle's face fell in severe disappointment.
Meier pondered each selection as carefully as possible, wishing to be thoroughly entertained, while assuring Charlotte that if things became too frightening she was perfectly welcome to hide herself in the women's restroom. Charlotte looked less than reassured and glared at Meier's back while he decided upon The House on Haunted Hill. Fortunately, before Charlotte began chewing her distinctly odd (but attractive) boyfriend out, Josh returned with a varied assortment of pajamas. The sleepwear was passed out to everyone and most went into the restrooms immediately, to change out of their own grimy, overused clothing. Everyone looked so relived to be in the soft clean materials, that no one was even complaining of some of the more lurid color schemes (Charlotte's purple and yellow plaid for example). That is...no one was complaining until poor D stepped reluctantly out of the men's room. The Dunpeal looked distinctly unhappy in the neon orange teddy bear jammies, and no one could blame him, the footies at the bottom were just too dreadful, and the large pink embroidered "hug me" on the fuzzy stomach was just beyond contemplation. This was so awful that everyone at once felt pity, and cast their eyes away...except for Kyle, who looked as though he was going to die laughing. D stared at what Kyle was wearing before turning to Josh.
"I believe he has my evening attire..." D murmured crossly, placing a pointed nail beneath a terrified Josh's chin, and gently turning his head towards the third Markus brother. Kyle had on a very nice set of black silk pajamas complete with a silken black robe. He looked very happy with the ensemble and was waving his good fortune in his older brothers faces, both of whom looked less than pleased with the situation. Borgoff had received a pair of blue and white striped, old fashioned, flannel pj's that made him look like he'd stepped out of the eighteen hundreds, and Nolt had gotten stuck with Scooby doo wear. Both looked disgruntled with their younger sibling and walked away, leaving him to the impending doom that was D. "Ack!" Kyle yelped as he was hefted into the air by the scruff of the neck. "Down!" Kyle shrieked in a panic. "Put me down!!!" He kicked and flailed pointlessly as D walked off towards the bathroom, the squirming red head held out in front of him.
A few moments later the door opened and a stripped Kyle (with a towel wrapped tightly around his waist) was flung out onto his face. Cries of disgust followed this particular action, and people fled in various directions that led away from poor abused Kyle. Staggering upright, Kyle turned angrily to retort in some physical fashion, when the door opened again, and D sauntered out. Carelessly tossing his discarded teddy jammies onto Kyle's head, D neatly spun him around, shoved him hard into the restroom, and shut the door. "Nicely done." Bengee murmured appreciatively, "Not sure if I could have done it that fast." Mashira nodded in agreement and went to congratulate the handsomely dressed Dunpeal.
Kyle re-emerged, looking dejected, after about thirty minutes, which were spent deciding whether he was going to come back outside at all. He slunk over to an unoccupied corner, and sat, staring unhappily at the fuzzy footies before attempting to rip them off. Borgoff and Nolt took this as an open invitation to make fun of their younger brother and headed off to do so while Grove tried to persuade them that Kyle had had enough. Josh managed to prevent any further happenings by bursting in through the door and announcing that the ice cream had arrived. This cheered everyone up a great deal, including Kyle, who soon seemed to forget that he was even supposed to be embarrassed. There were seven different flavors (chocolate, vanilla, cherry, strawberry, fudge ripple, lime, and peanut butter) along with a variety of ice cream type condiments (aka: whipped cream, choco syrup...). Everyone dug in looking pleased. Mashira grabbed the entire four- gallon tub of lime ice cream and walked over to his place by the soda machine, before beginning to down the contents. Looking disconsolate Borgoff and Caroline settled for cherry, seeing as wresting the lime away from Mashira probably wouldn't be worth it.
D was silently savoring his bowl of chocolate and strawberry, smothered in whipped cream, he had never enjoyed such a sugary treat before in his life, and was determined to make the absolute most of it. "Hey...D?" D looked surprised for a moment before glancing down at the glove, still covering his left hand. "Yes?" D asked, before taking in another delicious mouthful of ice cream, and trying desperately not to squirm in delight. "You, uh...wanna let me out now?" D thought this over for a moment before responding nonchalantly. "No." Left hand let out a pitiful sounding sob causing Caroline, who was sitting to his right, to turn abruptly and stare at D with her spoon halfway to her mouth. Becoming uncomfortable, D turned away from her muttering. "If you shut up, I'll let you out for the movie." This seemed to calm left hand down and he silenced himself. D sighed happily and was just settling back to enjoy his ice cream some more when there was a disturbance back at the buffet table, laden with ice cream.
"Damn horse!" Borgoff cried angrily, trying to pull D's horse's head out of the tub of vanilla ice cream (which he had been seconds away from topping his cherry sundae off with). It snorted, unhappy at being denied such a marvelous delicacy, and promptly slammed its back hoof into Borgoff's midriff. For about three seconds Borgoff stood perfectly still...then whimpered softly and collapsed. Bengee stepped over the prostrate form on the floor with only a vague amount of difficulty, and began refilling his bowl with fudge ripple.