SIEGHART

[foreversweaterweather]

me finding out that sieghart isn't actually dead, apparently,

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w1, friday

[foreversweaterweather]

[ Mabel tracks Sieghart down in the cafeteria ]

Hey, Sieghart, Sieghart!

--can I call you Siggy?

Guess what! We match now!

[ she pulls up her sleeves to reveal: bite marks! but these ones are far too small to be from humans. they might even look strangely, goosily, squirrely familiar... ]

[ercnerd]

[Siggy, she says . . .

He nearly chokes on his breakfast while his eyes widen at the bite marks.]

What happened? Did you wake up outside?

[foreversweaterweather]

Nope! I woke up in the bowling alley.

[ercnerd]

The bowling alley?

[foreversweaterweather]

Yeah! Right next to a bunch of the pins.

Do you know what this means, Siggy?! The ninja spy geese are expanding.

[ercnerd]

You're still going on about that . . .

Listen, Mabel. Do you know if there was anyone else who was found sleeping outside of the dorms like you?

[foreversweaterweather]

[ shakes her head ]

Mm-mm! The people who found me and woke me up didn't find anybody else. Why?

[ercnerd]

There were two of us last week. I was wondering if there were two again this time. But Dimitri and I were found in separate locations . . .

[foreversweaterweather]

Ooooh, so you think maybe there was a second person who woke up somewhere else?

[ercnerd]

Yeah. And they should have those marks, too . . .

Have you had yours cleaned?

[foreversweaterweather]

Cleaned?

[ercnerd]

Hey . . .

Animal bites put you at risk of infection. You need to wash them thoroughly.

[foreversweaterweather]

Really? Even when they're bites of love?

[ercnerd]

. . . Just who tells you these things?

[foreversweaterweather]

It's just a truth I know deep in my heart.

Also, probably that one fairy tale about the swan princess who needs love to turn back into a human? I think that's what it was about anyway!

[ercnerd]

Aren't you confusing kissing for biting . . . ?

[foreversweaterweather]

Same difference!

[ercnerd]

[He suddenly pities the person who'll kiss her when she's grown up.]

Clean them anyway!

[foreversweaterweather]

You have to clean every time you kiss? But that's so unromantic!

[ercnerd]

What's so unromantic about that? It's the same as showering and brushing your teeth before you go out to court somebody. You have to keep yourself clean.

[foreversweaterweather]

But isn't it annoying to have to stop in the middle of a bunch of kissing to go brush your teeth right after?

[ercnerd]

You don't have to clean them in the middle of it . . .

[foreversweaterweather]

Oh.

Well, that's a lot easier then!

[ercnerd]

Yeah, now go clean your animal bites before they really bite you!

[foreversweaterweather]

Haha, okay okay! I'll go and clean 'em! As long as you clean yours from last week!