Watering the Tree

The Black Void - Episode 1230

I walk back to the table. Still no sign of Amanda. I look around, discretely, trying to be seen by as few people as possible. Then I quickly grab my glass and toss the water into the tree pot right next to our table. I sit, debating whether or not I should throw Amanda's water into the tree pot as well. Suddenly, I hear giggling. I look around. No one. More giggling.

"Psst. Hey you." More giggling. "Hey you, look over here." I finally locate the noise. It's coming from the tree.

"What?"

"Not so loud." More giggling. "I feel funny. I feel (giggle) orange. Yeah, that's it. Orange."

"And? What do you want me to do about it?"

"I want more (giggle) water." I splash the tree with Amanda's glass. "That's nice. All the bubbles (giggle) tickle. And I feel...orange." A pause, then more giggling.

"This really isn't funny." I'm keeping one eye out for Amanda, the other eye on the tree. Still no sign of her.

"Oh, it is." More giggling. "It's so (giggle) funny. It's so funny (giggle) I can barely contain myself."

At that moment, hordes of carrots pop out of the pot, landing on the table. They seem animate. They are animate. They seem to like to attack me, too, jumping off the table and aiming for my mouth. Either these are suicidal carrots or they really want to get bitten. Maybe both. I shut my mouth and stand up from the table. Then I start grabbing one carrot at a time, throwing it to the ground, and squishing the life out of it with my shoe. It seems to work for a while, but I'm starting to attract attention, and there seem to be more and more carrots coming.

The tree leans over to me. "Psst. I really think that right now you should make like a tree and leave." Soft and uncontrollable giggling follows. "Get it? Make like a tree?" More soft and uncontrollable giggling.

I take the carrot in my hand and throw it as hard as I can at the tree. "I get your stupid joke."

  1. I take one of the empty glasses, hoping to fool the person at the buffet entrance into thinking I drank the carrot juice and letting me out of here.
  2. I pick up a carrot, deciding it should be useful as either a weapon or a hostage, and go confront the man at the staff entrance again.

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