AUDIENCE FOR: Rupert

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[guestservices]

Because you were in the daycare by then? Or you just never came by?

[they are looking up at the wall.]

[agleam]

Mm, mix of both. I was in the day care when it opened up, but I also didn't make it a point to check it out after we all came back to the school.

[guestservices]

I wouldn't be surprised to hear you just wanted to get the hell out as soon as you got back.

[agleam]

Ha... Well, luckily, we came back when we still had a few days before the end.

[guestservices]

...can I ask you something that might be overstepping? How'd you guys get back?

[agleam]

Sure. Um, the principal, who was also a bear, had been stuck in there with us for weeks because he... lost his keys.

[you can hear the exhaustion in his voice for several seconds but it's fine]

Once he found all of them, we got into a place that had all of our records in it. Everyone who'd gotten killed on a Thursday night was listed as having flunked out, and everyone who got executed was listed as having been expelled, so we changed those to passing grades and enrollment. Then the doors opened and we got to walk out.

[guestservices]

...sure. [they can accept this, apparently.]

That makes just about as much sense as anything else. With a changed grade, yeah, being allowed back on campus makes sense. That doesn't sound so bad though.

[agleam]

Did you think it would be bad for some reason...?

[guestservices]

Well I mean...how often do you deal with people coming back from the dead?

[agleam]

Like... In that specific way, or in general?

[what the fuck]

[guestservices]

In general. [sighs.] My point is that it's not normal, so obviously it makes people think it might be difficult.

[duh.]

[agleam]

It did take him, like, two months to find those stupid keys.

[guestservices]

To be completely fair to him...he's a bear. Two months is pretty good if you consider that fact.

[agleam]

Yes, but he was a talking bear. It's not like he was a regular bear.

[guestservices]

[somewhere in the hypmic world, principal bear sneezes.]

[guestservices]

But did he have thumbs?

[agleam]

I fail to see how that's—

[...]

Oh. I get it. [another pause.] You know, I don't think I ever really looked at his hands?

[guestservices]

I'm just saying! It might be something to take into consideration. Don't be too hard on him.

[agleam]

Well, luckily, he isn't here to make sad bear sounds when everyone gets mad at him.

[guestservices]

How could anyone even resist sad bear sounds?

[agleam]

Fairly easily, as it turns out.

[guestservices]

Terrible. Heartless. How could anyone be so cruel?

[now it's just obvious they're fucking around by this point.]