Again, this is a humor story. Expect what you expect for humor stories. Special thanks to Guest, shouldercookie, and BlueRaspberryJollyRancher for reviewing!
"YES!"Holly shouted, punching the air. Unfortunately, her cry of triumph was a little too loud.
"What is it, Holly?"Foaly asked, internally snickering at what he was about to say. "Did you get a love letter from the Mud Boy?
Holly's face turned beet red. She has more in common with the commander than she thinks, Foaly thought. Not that he would mention the thought to Holly. He'd probably find all his delicious carrot juice seared by Neutrino shots. That wouldn't do at all. No, that would be horrible.
"What did you just say?"Holly growled, her hand straying to her Neutrino.
Foaly backed away slowly. "Um, nothing. You just do whatever you Recon jocks do. No need to get violent here."
"Thank you. Now, do we have any prison cells with built-in loudspeakers?"
Foaly whinnied. He hadn't been expecting Holly to ask that.
"Actually, we do. It's one of my pet inventions. Sort of like a comm. system. Throw the prisoner in the cell and force him to listen to a lecture on why and how what he did was wrong. Sool rejected the idea. Called it 'cruel and unusual". Cruel and unusual, my face! There's nothing wrong with it."
Holly hurriedly interrupted before the centaur could go on into a biting lecture about how Sool had been stubborn as an old bat when he made the decision to reject the cell.
"Yeah, well, can we keep Mulch in there for a little while? Just for an hour or so. Nothing serious."
Foaly raised an eyebrow. "Ah. Artemis's idea?"
"Yep."
Yes, chapters will still be short. Like under 500 words short.