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The skies had a slight orange tone, with some white clouds here and there. A very large shadow, which had two long wings, passed above a tall tree while blasting off a continuous noise. Two pigeons swing their wings rapidly, slowly landing on a wooden board: one stood on a mat next to a door, the other walked a bit standing on the edge.
Vvvrrrrrrrrrr…
The head moved down, while chirping: a metallic box with two eyes on it was sliding upwards, leaving a trail of green ink. The pigeon began flapping the wings, flying ahead: the item jumped out of the wall, landing on the board and stopping right in front of a smaller wooden wall, with a window on it.
As the other pigeon fled to the right, the eyes on the box shut down and so its noise. Right after, one Squid at the time jumped out from the tree, immerging inside the remaining green ink on the board. Forming into a humanoid form, three young Inklings which heads were pointed down at the door.
"Aaaaah…!" Grina opens her arms, as she leans towards the tree with her right ear standing on it. Her eyes closed and a wide smile grows. "Treehouse, sweet treehouse! I missed you so much…!" Her head strokes the wall a bit.
"Grina, stop sliding on that tree." Mirii rose her head a little. "You are hurting your credibility as a young adult Squid."
The girl turns behind, frowning and puffing her cheeks.
"Don't be a jerk, Mirii! The tree was feeling so lonely…" Her eyebrows rose, as her wrists stood on her hips. "I could hear the tears shredding from the leafs…"
"Hmpf." Mirii walks over the door, with her eyes closed. "That vegetable collection of wood couldn't even question what life is."
Her eyes open, as her right hand sinks inside her dark green jacket's right pocket.
"How you are considering this plant is utterly disgusting…" She pulls out a key. "… since it can't even react in front of anyone."
"Of course it can't react, Miss Obvious!" Grina frowns a lot, opening her arms. "But the important thing is to be grateful with such wonder of the nature…" Her fists stood on her chest. "This tree was so gentle to let Squids build a treehouse on it. Why we should treat it like garbage?!"
"I don't think to ever have the courage of calling a plant, with such derogatory term…" Mirii turns the key two times, then her right hand took the handle and pushes it down, pushing the door as well. "However, a plant must be treated as a plant."
Following the girl, the other two Squids entered inside, as Bars was carrying the box with the eyes.
"Hearing ridiculous claims such as the kindness of a tree, makes those persons appear as desperate." Mirii turns behind, as her arms folded. "Now, please take your seats and listen to my plan I carefully prepared before."
"Bah!" Grina grimaces, as she dives on a large sofa with some scratches on the top and some patches around the edges. "Thinking about a plan while following Robbo? Pfff!" She grins, while lowering her eyebrows. "Must be a cheese house for many mice."
"My mind is well-trained thanks to the art of perfection!" Her right hand stands on the table, as small dust lifts off. "I don't have the necessity of large amount of time to come up with brilliant strategies… unlike a certain girl who keeps relying on luck and improvisation."
Mirii rose her palm, seeing dust covering it: she grimaces, while frowning at the same time.
"This place is accumulating dust…" She turns over a cabinet. "How could you have not seen anything about the treehouse's conditions?!" The girl walks over the cabinet. "Not even a notice…"
"Well, I did notice the dust…" Her irises rest on the floor, which had a bug walking around. "But I thought to clean the treehouse, after we return. I mean" Her irises stood on Mirii, which now has a broom and a scoop. "knowing your attitude, I feared to send you into a mindless rage yet again."
"Dust represent negligence… and I refuse to be compared with a room, where I'm using my superb intellect to communicate my next brilliant strategy. In fact, I hate dust more than hearing your next stupid line…" Mirii swings her broom, pushing the dust on the scoop and frowning.
"Really?" Grina grins. "Then, if I say things like… how much you are missing Hunry right now, you are not hating"
"WHAT THAT HAS TO DO WITH ANYTHING?!" Mirii's cheeks were blushing, as she was bending forward. "Stop mumbling nonsense for once!" She began swinging her broom again, this time faster.
"Sheeesh, Mirii…" Grina rolls her eyes, as her hands were on her legs. "Tonna had the guts to admit her love for the guy… why do you keep"
"Grina! Enough!" The girl stomps the floor, as her teeth gritted and her cheeks were blushing even more.
She took a loud breath, while closing her eyes.
"While I clean the treehouse, you and Bars better raise your ears..."
"Mirii…" Her eyebrows were up, her mouth a bit downturned. "I don't think it's healthy for you to negate your love for Hunry…"
The girl stops, as her face was looking down the floor.
"I mean, do you want me to say the darn obvious?" Grina stands up, frowning a bit. "Why do we need to get to the studios at all costs? Don't you think that Hunry would be alright at the end?"
Mirii was grasping her broom more tightly. Grina shakes her head, as her hands slaps her hips.
"You gave up on your school career, you threw yourself into situations you have never seen before… you can't even stand still if you don't know if Hunry is fine!" Grina walks to the left, as her head was pointed down at Mirii.
Bars was looking down at the short girl, holding a fuel container which had traces of green ink: he was bended on his knees, next to Robbo.
"You know, I may not have said this before, but…" Grina lowers her head. "… it makes me mad seeing you reacting with rage, whenever people are pointing at your interest for Hunry. It feels almost like you hate him, from the depth of your heart!"
"N-no, wait!" Mirii turns over Grina, with her eyebrows up.
Her eyes were a bit watery, as her throat swallowed silently.
"I-I don't hate him… he n-never did anything wrong to me…" Her right hand stood on her chest.
"Then why are you refusing to tell us the truth?!" Grina's wrists were on her hips, while her back was bending forward and her eyelids were in the middle. "No wait… it's not even that!" She lifts her posture back. "I know you love him! Everyone in this world knows you are in love with him! We just want to see you stop hiding your feelings like this!"
Grina took air from her nose.
"Mirii… if you keep shouting lies like that, your heart is going to hate yourself for the rest of your life!"
Mirii's irises shrunk immediately: a small pain was forming from her heart, like it's being chocked. She starts stumbling a bit, breathing quickly.
"Sigh…" Grina's eyes closed, as her eyebrows stood up. "To think you figured out those information about Project Neo… you couldn't thought about"
"Grina, let me talk about this…"
The girl reopened her eyes: Mirii's face was down.
"I'll keep this short, since we three must depart for the studios." She rose her face, which eyebrows were slightly up, her mouth visibly downturned. "Look, about Hunley…"
Her cheeks got red, as her head lowered again, with her hands behind her back and her irises resting on the lower part of the door.
"My desire is to see him well… he's truly a nice person, which doesn't deserve to suffer because of diseases or projects." Her irises turned to her right, seeing the bottom left corner of the cabinet. "And… ehm… I-I also want to see him around me…" Her cheeks got brighter.
Grina's mouth stood a bit open: she gradually forms a smile.
"But stop thinking that I'd ever perceive emotions such as love!" Mirii frowns, while looking at Grina. "Those make people waste their time, instead of concentrating on their tasks!"
"Ah, really…" Grina rose both her arms, while smiling and closing her eyes. "So, you are saying that your attempts to rescue Hunry are a waste of time?"
"HOW DARE YOU!" Mirii frowns even more, showing her teeth. "Saving a person's life grants a special seat in this world! Life is too precious to be compared with any gold!"
"Yeah, that's true…" Grina nods. "But don't you think it was easier to tell us your wish to stay with him more? After all those things you said, it just feels like a waste seeing all those contradictions coming from you."
"Nnnngghhh!" Mirii bites her lips, as she brought the scoop over a small trashcan. "Let's end this discussion now…"
Her left foot presses a small pedal, which made the trashcan's lid open: the scoop tilted downwards and shakes a bit, as the dust fell inside.
"Without further ado…" Mirii walks over the open cabinet. "I'll now expose my plan."
"Alright, genius!" Grina fell on the sofa, landing with her bottom. "Me and Bars are all ears!"
"Listen…" Mirii puts the broom and the scoop inside the cabinet, pushing back its door: she turns over the two Inklings. "As I found information about the show, I also happened to find the name of the studio: Saltspray Productions."
"Aaaah, Saltspray Productions!" Bars walks a bit over Mirii, while smiling and moving his hands up and down. "Like, it's located in that island just after the bridge!" He looks up, as his right hand rubs his chin. "Wait, what was the name of the island again…?"
"Inkspray Inkland." Grina's hands were on her head's back, as her left eye was close and a grin decorated her mouth. "That was the turf where I lived as a little Squid."
"Really?!" Bars expanded his eyes, as his smiling was open. "Wow, like you must have seen that studio tons of time!"
"Yeah…" Grina's head tilts above, as her hands picked her right knee. "My dad always brought me near it, observing cars passing in and out… sometimes we would see some actors walking around the sectors too."
She sighs loudly.
"The few times I saw them, they were always smiling… I always mention that to my dad and he said that it was indeed a job which makes you smile. When I was a child, that was the dream job I always wanted: smiles certainly indicate how nice was the place and that alone was enough to make me desire being an actress."
She chuckles.
"Yeah, yeah, I was very naive back then… I mean, that job pretends so much from a person: if you don't respect the smallest detail of a schedule, you are out and done. If they would just chill out a bit, smiles would come out more naturally."
"In other words…" Mirii's right forefinger stood on her right cheek. "You know how to reach the studios?"
"I could get there with my eyes closed!" She stands up, leaning on her knees. "But once we get there, what are we going to do? The guardians will never let us enter inside."
"Unless there is a valid reason…" Mirii closes her eyes for a moment.
"Which is…?" Grina turns her head over Bars, as she pulled her left tentacle behind.
"Job opportunity." Mirii walks towards a small poster, which has the King Kraten character around buildings. "We'll pretend to bring our Curriculum Vitae to the Squid resources office and attempt to ask for an interview."
"Hey, not bad!" Grina smiles, with her wrists on her hips. "But do we have those documents?"
"The island is rather distant… a huge amount of time is required to reach the location." Mirii's right palm lands on the K letter, which is from the word Kraten.
Clic.
"That's why the vehicle of choice is going to be The Squid Jr." Mirii's eyes follow a part of the wall moving upwards.
"Aaaah, nice!" Grina's eyes closed, as her hands clasped near her left cheek and her open mouth formed a smile. "That car has all my favorite music inside its radio: perfect to sing out loud and get some dancing move!"
"Aaawww, come on girl…!" Bars frowns a bit, while folding his arms. "Like, that thing is so small… it feels like driving a darn toy!"
"The toy you are referring to, Bars…" Mirii points her right finger at him. "It has a laptop, with a printer incorporated. While you are driving the car, I'll prepare all the documents in time and finish explaining my plan."
"But girl!" The boy opens his arms. "Like, the hummer can have that laptop and printer just fine! The only difference is that the hummer… like, it makes you feel at the top of the world!" He smiles, with his eyebrows down. "Everyone looks at that vehicle, roaring and running at full speed around the city… and respect you like the end boss of Super Squid 3D."
Grina blushes a bit, while staring at Bars: she lowers her head a bit, with her right forefinger's side on her smiling mouth.
"Still, the hummer puts us in disadvantage." Mirii walks inside a small room, which has two arrows: one was pointing up and the other one below was pointing down. "It's large and noisy: the guardians would not believe us."
"Girl… like, shucks a lot!" He shakes his head, while closing his eyes. "Alright, alright. Whatever you say, girl!"
Grina downturned her mouth, followed by her eyebrows moving up. Her eyes saw the key laying on the table: she took it and walks over the door, putting the key into the keyhole and turning it twice. The girl pulls it back, holding it in her right hand.
"Grina, we must go." Mirii's right hand was standing on the down arrow.
The girl sprints, putting the key back on the table: she stops behind Bars, which was inside the small room. Mirii pushes the button: the raised part of the wall comes back down, followed by a mechanical noise which was moving downwards.