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[First comes a video. It's Sonny Moe. You can see that he's been eating pies. There's a couple of pie tins sitting there with a few crumbs in them. Also, he may have a few stray crumbs in his stubble.]

I really love October! Can you believe that some places have sale priced pumpkin pies already!? I bought a whole bunch if anyone wants one! You might want to speak up quickly, though - I can't guarantee they will last very long!

So, anyway, Halloween is this month too. I know it's kind of early to be thinking about it, but does anyone already know what they're going to dress up as? I'm not sure, yet. Maybe a Ninja Squirtle guy.

I think that's all! Bye!

[Actioning around the place. Feel free to start in with any of our Personals Post stuff! Alternatively, pick your poison:

1) Now that his hand is mostly healed, Sonny can be found sitting around outside near whatever piles of leaves are the biggest, practicing his Ukulele skills. Feel free to interrupt him, listen in, or jam with him if you have an instrument handy!

2) Autumn is the start of Baking Season. Sonny can be found in the student kitchens most days making things with cinnamon and nutmeg and pumpkin spice and chocolate and ham. Want a bite?

3) Other than that he's being a good guy and going to all his classes and taking orders from his awesome boss Bowser and doing all those other Sonny Moe things. So, wandering the halls, wandering between classes, wandering around the grounds, in the cafeteria, in the weight room, in the everyplace.]

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[She kept gasping and shaking, curled tight in her little ball of safety. So long as she kept still, made herself small, and tiny, and unimportant, she'd be fine. She was a tiny little nothing and she couldn't bother anyone and they'd leave her alone because she wasn't worth their time.]

OK... it's OK. Y-yeah. It's fine. I'm sorry. I didn't--I'm sorry. You can--you can... I'll just... I won't bother you. I'm sorry.

[Bleary, bloodshot eyes peeked over her skirt, looking somewhere around Sonny's belly, before her breath hitched and she hid behind her knees once more. Did she know him? Did it matter? He looked familiar, but she didn't know him. A premonition, or repression, or a trick of her mind.

He said he wasn't mean. She felt sick when she looked at him though, awash with shame. If he wasn't mean, why did she feel terrible? Lots of terrible things said they weren't.]

I'm not, I'm not scared. You're fine. I don't mind. You're whatever you want. I'm sorry.

I'm whatever I want? Huh?

[What a weird thing to say! It was like she was just saying anything she could think of to placate him. Like, literally anything that came to mind. Which was hardly a clever way to lure him into a false sense of security to perform some kind of nefarious violence. Literally no-one would fall for that, right?

And she didn't look well.

He finally forced himself to crawl away from the wall on his hands and knees, not taking his eyes off of her if he could help it. First, he grabbed his phone and assured his co-worker that everything was just fine, and no, they didn't need to dispatch a battalion of Koopa Troopers to his current location. He hung up. Then, he picked up the bag of chips he'd dropped.]

....if I'm anything I want to be, then I want to be a guy who shares. Are you hungry?

[Nagging voices in the back of his mind aside, he had to try.]

[There was a pause, before she finally raised her head, just a little, to peek at him again. Sharing food... it was a bad idea. Especially with him, she was pretty sure. Something bad had happened... when he offered food...?

Her stomach growled, but she jerked her head in a quick negative.]

It's yours. I don't need... it's okay, it's yours.

I know it's mine. I just paid a dollar for it, silly!

[He opened the bag and offered it in her direction. She really did look small. If anyone needed some feeding, it was probably her.]

They're nacho cheese flavor! That's one of my favorites. I also love cool ranch! Have you ever tried them before?

[He shook the bag a little. By now, he was sort of managing a smile. She wasn't so scary any more. He was still kind of expecting her to pull a knife, but he was ready to jump back and run away if that happened.]

[By this point, she'd gone very still. That dusty, artificial cheese scent wafted from the bag to her, and it smelled delicious. Her stomach growled another time, begging for her to give in.

Was he smiling? He wanted her to take some, so he had to be planning something, and he couldn't even hold back his sneer at the thought of it. If she reached out, what would he do? Maybe he'd laugh at her and eat them all in one gulp. With a mouth as big as his, that would be easy. He'd probably push her down, too. Once her hand reached out he could grab it, and pull her away from her corner, and, and kick her maybe.

Still, he could probably do all those things even if she said no. In fact, he could do even worse, if he got mad that his plan didn't work. She shouldn't have hidden in a corner, he was blocking any escape she could have taken. It would have been better to simply never have left her room. She'd gotten stupid and forgotten.

Out of options, she gave a small squeak, and extended a shaking hand to the bag, palm up.]

[Her hand was trembling like a blade of grass in the wind! Was he really so scary? He'd never really thought of himself as a fearsome looking Human. He was kind of soft and round and fuzzy and of average height - he wasn't Max.

He thought for a second maybe she'd feel more comfortable if he changed into a Snorlax. That Gigantic Teddy Bear look seemed appealing to kids. But seeing as she was such a scaredy Meowth, probably better not to risk it.

Instead, he tilted the bag and dropped some chips into her hand. Chips and crumbs, but mostly chips. These little bags only ever had a few whole ones. She'd gotten most of them.]

There! Now, we can both have something to eat. Hey, what's your name? I'm Sonny Moe. It's nice to meet you?

[Once he finished, she pulled her hand back quickly, chips clutched carefully. He hadn't done anything, but this just meant she owed him. He'd done her a favor and now he'd make her do something in exchange, she had to pay him back or he'd get mad.

Taking a deep breath, she shoved the chips into her face. The snack had been forced on her, she hadn't wanted it, she didn't like favors, but she had it now and she was hungry. If she were smarter, she knew, she wouldn't have eaten them, then she wouldn't owe him so much, but she was weak and hungry and she needed them.

Now there were names. Sonny Moe... he was up to something. Definitely up to something, and he wanted her to know who had done it. Her answer was mumbled through her half-chewed chips.]

...Madsgee...

It's nice to meet you, Madsgee! Wow, you really like chips, huh? Me too!

[She was shoving them in there almost as quickly as he normally did! She was a little Snorlax in training if she could keep up that kind of pace!]

You seem pretty hungry, huh? You know what...?

[He shifted a little so he could reach his pocket easier and fished around in there for his wallet.]

I've got a little extra snack money, today! Why don't I get us a couple more packets? Or maybe you like candy bars better? Or some of those packs of nuts or.... the little bag of cheerios, I guess. But I've never seen anyone who wants those.

[She didn't much mind his getting her name wrong. It was a barrier, a little something she could keep to herself.

Eying him, she shook her head once. The food had calmed her down, just a little--enough to keep her from returning to a gibbering ball, at least. Still, she watched him with great suspicion.]

I don't... want any... you can have it... I don't, I don't have anything to give you, so you don't have to... do this.

[Sonny shook his head fervently.]

No! No, it's OK - remember? You said, I could be whatever I wanted to be. So, I said I wanted to be a guy who shares. That means you don't have to give me anything! Sharing is its own reward, you know?

[He smiled as reassuringly as he could, lowering his head a little to be more on her level.]

....and I'm really sorry if I scared you, OK? When I yelled before. It's just that I ran into a ghost once who looked like you. I offered her some candy and she stabbed me, and turned into a bunch of teeny tiny copies to throw things at me. But you know what? You don't really remind me much of that girl. She was mean. But I think you seem nice.

[Or at least not outwardly violent.]

A g... a ghost...?

[Her face screwed up in confusion. All that sounded awfully familiar, but... no, hadn't that just been a dream? That was all definitely too weird to be real.]

Your hand is... all right, though...?

[She pinched at her cheek, hard. She stared at his hand for a moment, before staggering up to her feet.]

That didn't happen. I'm awake. I... I should go.

Yeah. A ghost. A bad one. But I haven't seen her since, so, maybe she disappeared?

[Maybe it was like when Ema had changed. Become a meaner version of herself. Maybe that ghost was a meaner version of this little girl?]

Yeah! Thanks for asking! My hand is a lot better now. It healed up nicely - I went to the emergency room, then the school nurse in training helped me. Now I can play Ukulele again!

[He stood up and moved out of her way. He didn't want to force his company on her if she really wanted to go. Though, the comment about being awake struck him as a little odd.]

OK, well, Madsgee, if you really want to go, that's OK! I just wanted to say sorry for scaring you. Are you sure you wouldn't like some snacks to take back to your dorm? I really don't mind!

Nn, nno, I shouldn't... shouldn't have...

[Doing her absolute best to avoid eye contact by any means, she shuffled sideways with her back pressed against the wall.]

Sorry... I didn't mean to, I thought... umm. No.

[Her eyes kept darting to his hand and the empty bag, and away. Maybe he was from the future, and she'd had a vision about this. But he also remembered her from the past? So he was from the pastfuture. Her head was buzzing.]

Sun Nemo. Big Nemo in Awakeland. I should go to sleep. I'm tired, I'm going... to sleep.

Big Nemo? That's a new one! No-one's ever called me that before.

[He chuckled a little, stepping back further so maybe she'd feel OK with not being pressed up against the wall. Man, she was super scaredy, wasn't she? He still wondered why, but was aware that the chances of him finding out were slim.]

Naps are always a good idea. I think so, anyway. I nap a lot, too, because I'm a Snorlax. Sleep well, OK? I hope you have really pleasant dreams!

[No one's said that to her, before, either. They were saying all sorts of new things to each other. A snore lax sounded like a good thing to be.

Madotsuki glanced up at his stomach one last time, and took a deep breath, before running away, without any last words. She was going to sleep, and dream, and they'd be very pleasant, and she'd know what was going on.]

Bye, Madsgee! See you!

[Sonny waved to her as she sprinted away. What a timid little kid! Well, hopefully she got a nice nap in this afternoon and felt better. Maybe he'd see her around again some day. It was nice to know that she was... well. Nice. And that he didn't have to freak out and borderline freak out any time he saw someone in a pink shirt with pigtails.]

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