As your pulse returns to normal and you find yourself relaxing a little, you hear an oddly familiar little plip-plop on the tile floor, coming closer and closer...
FERN:

...Weren't you just in the roo-

...Forget it, layer stuff, I know.


WILLIS:

They said I should wait out here. It's not "approprinate" for an un-grownup to see concept cores all naked and stuff.

They want you to wait too, um, just in case.


FERN:

Eesh, let's hope "just in case" doesn't happen. Even if I were a doctor...we don't know a thing about "cores" where I'm from.


WILLIS:

You never seen one neither!?!? You could peek, you know, you're a grownup!


FERN:

Not so sure that's safe for my brain, Willis.

...Is that what's in the room now? Just "cores?" Where are Crash, Chip and Jay?


WILLIS:

Wherever you left them! You can't be in the SAME place as your core! That would just weird!


FERN:

........Huh.....

...Does it, um, hurt to have your core operated on?






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