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[kobes]

I found her inside a pumpkin in a hedge maze the first October I was here.

[as one does.]

[internship]

Is that how most people end up with pets here? People find tigers in hedge mazes?

[kobes]

For the most part, yes. There's Shadowhen, she was also from a pumpkin, and there are the wolves's pets from the commune. Some more I'm missing, I'm sure.

And the horses and dogs that belong to the Balfours, of course.

[internship]

You know, I never had pets growing up. Aside from one goldfish my little brother flushed down a toilet. Maybe I should ask the Balfours for a pony?

[kobes]

That's a terrible thing to do to a fish.

But yes, I think you deserve a pony at LEAST.

[internship]

My dad tried to tell me it swam to the Hudson River, but. That cover-up didn’t last long.

You’re a good friend, Koby. You know that?

[kobes]

Maybe it did. Maybe it lived in the pipes and grew big as a whale.
Goldfish can, you know.

So are you, Gwen.

[internship]

[ She’s about to ‘ha ha’ at that, but then she remembers it’s Koby, who’s from a weird ocean world, so: ]

Wait. Can they actually do that where you’re from?

[kobes]

Grow that big? The Sea Kings will probably eat them before they get there, unfortunately.

[a pause, then, by way of explanation:] Sea Kings are enormous sea monsters that can swallow ships whole.