It had been quiet for the last 4 hours, and Nova had gotten a better sleep than she had for the 4 months she was out. There were no nightmares, or dreams where she thought she had woken up inside her dream and that the cores being destroyed had been a dream inside her dream. This time, her dreams were more...odd. There was momentarily a crowd cheering, but it was gone too fast for Nova to recognize anyone. The rest was just displaced garbage from the stuff that had been happening for the past few days, with weird gobbledygook thrown in to reassure herself that it wasn't reality. Still, she had woken up at about 9 at night, to only hear a T.V playing in the other room. She wandered out into the hallway, the cement floor of the large cellar making her wish she was still under the covers. The room the noise was coming from was a door painted purple, with a silver doorknob. The door was opened slightly, so Nova enabled her cloak to make the person behind the door think that it was just a gust of air from a fan, and not a woman making the door open. When the door was open, Nova saw Li-Ming staring in curiosity at the open door, a movie playing and a bowl of popcorn in her lap.

"Now how did…" Li-Ming began.

Nova stepped into the room, and slid under the bed, a prank formulating in her mind.

"It must've been nothing." Li-Ming said as she closed the door and sat back down on the bed.

Nova inhaled a deep breath for the ultimate song she was about to sing. Already the room smelled of Li-Ming's perfume. Nova opened her mouth and began.

"AAAAND WHEN THE MOOON HITS YOUR EYEEE LIKE A BIIIG PIIIIIZA PIE-"

Li-Ming stood up and yelped, the bowl of popcorn spilling everywhere. She looked under the bed, only to see nothing.

"How in the name of the hells?!"

Nova disabled her cloak, and smirked at Li-Ming. "That's amore." She finished quietly.


Nova was downstairs making a new bowl of popcorn for Li-Ming. Although she had laughed along with Nova, Li-Ming promptly grabbed the nearest hairbrush and smacked Nova in the face, before sternly telling her "New bowl of popcorn. Now."

The kitchen area was a nice touch. The granite counter tops were, most unusually, not cold, but warm. It had a little breakfast island, the kind with stools around it and a bowl of fruit in the center.

After Nova had made the popcorn, she looked upon the kitchen and wondered where Chromie had gotten the time to do all of it. Maybe she could slow the movement of time around her? No, others would have noticed that they went slower inexplicably, and from how Chromie explained the Bronze Dragonflight, even if she did do it, it would've most likely broken more than a few rules.

She was walking down the hall when Diablo, Sylvanas, and Kael'thas bumped into her, nearly making her spill the contents of the bowl.

"Hey, fragile!" she said.

"I apologize, but we're going to do an experiment." Kael'thas said.

"What are you doofuses doing now?"

"Diablo is going to cook a slab of ham with his breath in 3 seconds, and then we're going to see if I can carve the thing using only my fingernails. Oh, and Sylvanas is going to record it using my phone and post it to Multitube." Kael'thas replied, and Sylvanas held up a bright red Hearthphone to show her.

"Just don't burn this popcorn in the process, okay?"

"Speaking of popcorn…" Kael'thas began. He dug his fingernails into the bowl, and when he brought his hand up, he had a piece of popcorn impaled on each fingernail.

"Hey!" Nova exclaimed.

"Oh, relax, Terra. It's not like he stuck them in dirt, so your precious popcorn is still uncontaminated." Sylvanas rolled her eyes at Nova.

"Whatever. I just need to bring these to Li-Ming, so get outta my way."


Nova opened the door, and stared at what was before her. Jaina was sitting on Li-Ming's bed, watching the movie with her. The thing was, Li-Ming had her hair down.

"Hair." Nova said, dumbfounded.

"Oh, relax. It's not like I shaved it all off."

"Still, it just looks….odd. Like staring at the face of God himself, and realizing God is actually an alpaca."

"It's not that bad looking, is it?" Li-Ming asked.

"No, but it's just…"

"I like it, Nova. Now let's move on. Hand me that popcorn."

"What's the magic word, Mingy?"

"Gimme."

"Close enough." Nova said, and handed the bowl to Li-Ming.

"I've been feeling kinda scared, you guys." Jaina said.

"About what, exactly?" Li-Ming asked.

"About our immortality being gone."

"We'll fix it."

"I know, but what if we fix it, and the people who already died...don't respawn?"

"Why would that be?"

"I don't know. It's definitely worrying me though. What if I die, and you guys fix it, but I don't come back? These are serious questions."

"Whatever happens, we'll find a way to fix."

"What if it's unfixable?"

"Then I honestly don't know. I guess we'll just have to live with it."

The room was in total silence, except for the movie.

"Did everything just get super heavy during a viewing of Finding Nemo?" Nova asked.

"I guess it did." Li-Ming said.

Consort: Speaking of the assault on the Castle, I have a ton of new Lost Minion characters planned, and not exactly the redeemable kind.

And yes, thankfully, there are showers.

In relation to "SEIKO, NO!", sit down for personal story time! One time, after school, me and my friends were getting snacks from a 7/11, and we bought average stuff, y'know. Soda, chips, candy, but the pinnacle of it was a not 1, not 2, but 3 liter bottle of cherry Pepsi. Our spot where we eat this stuff is on a little curb, where people stare at us as we're eating Skittles and doing our math homework at the same time. One of my friends, who i'll call Stacy for privacy reasons, is a huge weeb. The one Anime she had gotten me hooked to was Corpse Party, and today she asked me if I had finished watching the, quote unquote, 'Seiko goes the way of the Salem Witches' part. So you know what I did? I screamed "SEEEEEEEIIIIIKOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOO" as loud as humanly possible, and Stacy got so startled that she spilled cherry Pepsi all over my new shoes.