[voice]

[bitty_blue_brother]

[With the onset of what seems to be an unusual cold snap, Hubert's betting on people being stuck inside with their journals for company and nothing much else to do besides trying to get warm. So he picks up his own journal to issue a plea for help:]

Does anyone know how to get someone's tongue unstuck from a frozen pole?

[The question is punctuated by incoherently dismayed mumblings in the background. Someone coughAsbelcough got bored enough to get himself into a bit of trouble and now Hubert has to figure out how to get him out of it. And so it goes.]

Comments

[Voice]

[bitty_blue_brother]

[That may have been a strangled cry coming out of Hubert's throat at that.]

N-no way! That's...

["Full of bullshit" is the technical term Hubert doesn't even know he's looking for.]

[Voice]

[jadethenecromancer]

It's all true. When I was a child, someone in our little group of friends tried it. Saphir the Toaster Tongue, we called him.

...Although now that I think about it, I might have been the one to come up with the raisin throwing part. I thought it would be entertaining to see whether he could catch them.

[Voice]

[bitty_blue_brother]

What? That's mean!

[What the hell is a toaster, even.

And then something finally occurs to Hubert.]

Wait...if you came up with the part about the raisins...did you come up with everything else, too?

[WHOAH EVERYONE HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE

Hubert "When-In-Doubt-An-Adult-Knows-Best" Lhant essentially just accused a grown-up

of

lying

to him

oh man that is how you know this shit is getting serious.]

[Voice]

[jadethenecromancer]

Now now, Hubert. What possible reason would I have to trick him into licking a toaster?

[Besides that little Jade was an even bigger asshole than adult Jade?]

Besides, I didn't lie. He most definitely gained a reputation from doing it.

[Voice]

[bitty_blue_brother]

No, I meant about the...

[But whereas adult Hubert would have continued trying to straighten things out, child Hubert already feels a little sheepish for questioning a grown-up's authority.]

Well, never mind.

[Voice]

[jadethenecromancer]

[Jade merely gives a good-natured chuckle

...though he does then sober up a bit.]

Well, once you've solved Asbel's little mishap, come see me in the Captain's cabin. I need a word with the two of you.

[Voice]

[bitty_blue_brother]

Huh? Oh...okay.

[ARE THEY IN TROUBLE]

[Voice]

[jadethenecromancer]

Good. I'll see you there.

[If by "they" you mean all three of them. Because there used to be FIVE of them just moments ago.]