"DYLAN!" Dolly yelled. Summer quickly opened the door. Dolly wasted no time, once she was able to squeeze through she did and hugged Dylan the second she saw him.

"Wo, wo, wo. Calm down, calm down." He said stroking her as best he could.

"you ok?" asked Dorothy also hugging her from behind.

Dolly didn't say anything, she was just breathing hard. It wasn't for a few minutes till she calmed down and was breathing normally again. "you good sis?" Dylan asked.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm good, thanks." She said letting go and then hugging Dorothy, "thank you as well."

"no problem." She said hugging her back.

"Sorry about that you guys, I don't…know…what came over me." Dolly said turning around to see Summer and Spike are missing. "where did they go?" she asked.

Dylan and Dorothy looked around as well. Then Dylan saw the doors closed for the anechoic chamber. "I think I have an idea." He said walking up to the chamber and opening the door slightly, then closed it. "yeah, they're in there." He said.

"what are they doing?" Dolly asked blushing.

"they're just laughing. They might be a minute. So, while we're waiting, do you want to talk about that happened in there?" Dylan said.

"I don't know, it's nothing." Dolly said.

"come on. You've never done anything like before. Come on, you can tell me." Dylan saw Dorothy looking concerned. "We're here for you." He said.

Dolly didn't know what to say, "it's stupid. You'll laugh."

"Dolly. You looked like you were about to cry. Whatever happened, you need to tell us." Dylan placed his paw on her shoulder. "we won't laugh."

Dolly just took in a deep breath, "it wasn't that I was going crazy. It was just the silence alone. My whole life, there has always been someone with me. Even on the quietest night at home, there's always noise around." She said. "but when I was in there, with nothing but myself." She shuttered. "I felt alone, I've never been alone. It scared me." She said, slightly shaking.

"Hey, now." Dylan said, "you're fine, you're fine. You'll never be alone." He said hugging her, Dorothy following shortly after, "and with a family our size, that would be some miracle." He laughed, which got a laugh from Dolly.

"Thanks bro." she said, "and you two Dorothy." She said bringing Dorothy into the hug. After a while, "so should we get them out, or should we ditch them?" Dolly asked.

"Dolly!" Dorothy said. this got then to break the hug.

"kidding, kidding." She said holding up her paws. "but I'm not getting near that thing." She said.

"don't worry, I'll get them." Dylan said. he walked up to the door, he cracked opened the door a little, "ok you guy, I'm opening the doors." He said. once he did, Summer and Spike were a normal distance apart, but he noticed they were heavily blushing. "come on, we should continue exploring." He said.

"Right, right!" they said walking out.

"don't worry, I was the only one who saw." He said. "come on, I think I see…yes astronomy!" Dylan's tail when into overdrive.

"oh great, ~stars~." Dolly said sarcastically.

"come on. This is going to do so much fun." Dylan said just walking over, not knowing if the rest of his friends are following.

5 minutes later.

"still don't see what's so great about small dots in the sky." Dolly said still looking bored. Spike looked like he was enjoying himself.

"I told you once why they are so cool. Let me explain it one more time. If you travel at the speed of light, you can go around the earth 7.5 times in one second. Now, the sun is our closest star. How long do you think it takes for its light to reach us?"

"I don't know, a few seconds?" she said not caring.

"around 8 minutes. This means we see the sun as it was, 8 minutes ago. These stars, it takes millions upon millions of years for their light to reach us. Which means we don't know if these stars are still there." He said looking up.

"ok, I will admit, that is kind of cool. But still. They're just dots in the sky."

"here." He said showing her his left ear, it was dark but there was some light to see. Then pointed to the dome where the stars are, and fond it. "as you can see, we can see that shape because it so far away. If we were at a different place in space, we would see the stars differently." He said and kept on looking up. "also, if every star is a sun, then that means they can each also have a solar system, which also means there should be a section with a plaint that could support life. Scientists have found a plaint made completely made out of diamonds, one where glass rains from the sky faster than the speed of sound, even one that is completely made of ice that should be melting because of the high temperatures from its star because it's so close but isn't." He said. "so yeah, they're just dots in the sky, but they can be dots with 'dog knows what' around them." He said. Dolly looked back up, this time not with, 'their dots, so what.' Now she sees then as endless wonder. With a small starry-eyed look.

Dorothy finally spook up, "how many constellations do you know?"

Dylan smiled and then pointed allover.

After some time and done seeing everything.

"well, I think we're done. Unless you guys want to go back and see something again?" asked Dylan. Everyone muttered among themselves and said no. "ok then." Dylan than saw the clock, "seeing as its already 2, and nothing happing back home, we should get to the park and eat something." He said.

"what, 2?" Dolly said, "wow."

"learning seems like fun now, doesn't it?" Dylan smiled, leaning in close to Dolly.

Dolly just gives a grumpy look. "yes." she said.

"well come on then." Dylan said. "I know you're going to want to skateboard after were done eating." He said walking to the door.

"hey, you don't know what I wanted to do." She said running up to him.

"Really, then what are you going to do?" he asked.

Dolly was about to say something, but something caught her eye. "boom night?"

"hum?" Dylan said stopping and seeing Dolly looking at the poster.

"what's boom night?" asked Summer.

"it's something humans do every year. loud explosions and then colorful lights." Dylan said. "wow can't believe it's almost time." Dylan looked closely, "it's this weekend."

"oh, I can't wait." Dolly said waging her tail.

"you think we should talk Fergus up in his offer this year?" Dylan said.

"I don't know, it could be…DOROTHY!" Dolly said.

Dylan quickly turned his head to see what spooked Dolly about Dorothy. He saw a display falling over. Both of them ran after her, leaving Summer and Spike behind only for them to see it all unfolded. Dorothy turned to see Dylan and Dolly running to her, but they were looking behind her. She turned again and saw that something was falling. "AAHHH!" she yelled but was too scared to move.

"oh no!" Dolly said. because she was the faster of the two she got to Dorothy first. But she didn't have time to run out. All she did was curl herself around Dorothy. Bracing herself to be crushed.

"DOLLY! DOROTHY!" Dylan yelled.

The cliff, she is a dangling. Yeah, I'm just going to leave you all wondering what's going to happen.

Legerdemain (leg-er-de-main)

Noun

Sleight of hand: a display of skill or adroitness.

That's it from me, until next time. Red Omega out, Peace!