Fluffy Puffs
“Are you absolutely sure, it’s gonna work out?” said the Kitten “It sounds dangerous.”
“We just need to try and find out,” said the Dragon “there is no harm in trying. Even if there will be harm, muhaha.”
“Sounds reasonable,” said the Kitten with a sly smile and focused its blue innocent eyes on the scrolls with strange inscriptions. The Dragon fidgeted in visible agitation, picking randomly variously colored marbles and briefly studying them. Some of the marbles apparently suited Dragon’s plan and it put them aside with a grunt of satisfaction. Some were wrong, and she tossed them aside in frustration.
The Kitten with an unchanging expression of innocence in its blue eyes started to assemble some construction. A hint of a prankish smile appeared on Kitten’s lips, indicating that it found something. Its blue eyes sparkled with excitement.
The air suddenly became filled with a flurry of violently crackling lightning bolts. Somebody outside of the clearing screamed in rage.
“What the fuck do you think was that?” asked the Kitten with curiosity. It lifted its wide-open blue eyes that continued to exude innocence. The dragon fidgeted even more excitedly, producing impatient howls and shouts. It had already picked all the marbles it needed and shuffled them, trying to arrange them into a correct pattern.
“I kinda understand everything and all” slowly said the Eagle coming out of the tall grass, surrounding the clearing. Wisps of blue smoke rose from its feathers. The Eagle looked at the proceedings with a mix of curiosity and annoyance. “But could you explain to me what in the name of frogs is going on here?”
“Ok, hi pip! You’d never believe what we are trying to do” exclaimed the Dragon all but jumping up and down in excitement. The Kitten looked at the Eagle with its wide-open blue eyes and offered it a broad, friendly smile. This was such a warm and friendly smile that the icicles at the North Pole started melting.
“We conjure a Demon from the underworld that can supply us with an indefinite supply of fluffy puffs,” said Kitten with a laugh and sent the Dragon a wink. The Dragon caught the hint, smiled enigmatically, without looking at anybody. It kept rearranging the marbles that began to emanate a visible glow
“Never thought that fluffy puffs are a good idea in the first place,” said the Eagle grumpily “but the unlimited supply, holy shit. Don’t you think of the health hazards and stuff.”
“We’ll see,” said the Dragon without looking at the Eagle. Now it was completely focused and absorbed in rearranging marbles.
“First, we need to complete the conjuration, and then we’ll see what’ll come out of it” finished the Dragon, at this point talking mostly to itself.
The Kitten’s smile faded, and it resumed building a bizarre contraption on the ground. More cracking followed. Lighting bolts appeared out of thin air and exploded with a deafening bang. The Eagle looked at the proceedings with incredulity, occasionally twitching nervously and cupping its ears with its hands. Meanwhile, a dense cluster of coal-black clouds appeared above their heads, spinning ominously. The Eagle looked up, rolled its eyes, and produced a short nervous snigger.
“Ok, I’ll be right back then. Tell me what would come out of it later” the Eagle graciously departed, trying not to reveal its distress.
“Sure, see ya,” said the Kitten and Dragon in unison without lifting their eyes from the magical constructions they were busy putting together.
“What a drab,” said Kitten distractedly, its full attention consumed by the construction that started emanating a weird pink glow.
The dragon grunted contentedly, then its eyes suddenly went wide, and it started jumping up and down “You got to get to look at this, pronto!” The Kitten lifted its innocent blue gaze with curiosity
“The fuck is going on here?” the Swan entered the clearing with a half-bored, half-amused expression on its face and stood in its center, realizing that such position gave it a spirit of authority “I was passing by, looked at this direction, and like, O, shit, a cloud. And I stand and wonder what the fuck it might be. What are you doing actually?” The Swan pinned the Kitten with a sharp stare. The Kitten returned a look of crystal innocence in its wide-open blue eyes, smiled amiably, and almost screamed in delight.
“Ah, the Swan, eventually, it’s so nice to see you. Why don’t you visit more often? We are conjuring a demon that can produce an unlimited supply of fluffy puffs.”
“Holy shit” exclaimed the Swan “why on earth would you need the unlimited supply of fluffy puffs. But, never mind, whatever” the Swan rolled its eyes, saw an ominously spinning cloud above and started studying it with curiosity
“Hi, Swan,” said the Dragon absentmindedly. Now it was completely absorbed by magic marbles, which at that moment danced in the air, emanating bright light and melodic sound. “I’d give you a hug, but I’m very busy at this moment” the Dragon studied dancing marbles with a hint of concern in its eyes and changed the positions of several of them “you should really come more often. Don’t remember when the last time I saw you.”
“Well, never mind,” said the Swan, switching its attention from the cloud to something invisible before its eyes. “Do you really think, it’s going to work?”
“Sure, why not?” exclaimed the Kitten excitedly “so far it’s going pretty well. I didn’t even expect it.”
“Yeah, sure,” said the Swan doubtfully looking at the dark spinning cloud. The cloud was getting bigger, spun faster, and produced mournful groans of constipation. “Well, I probably should wish you luck with that” added the Swan.
“Hi, what’s that here?” The Fox stumbled into the clearing out of the wall of grass, tripped over scattered stones, almost fell, caught its balance, frantically waving its hands. All this without taking its fascinated stare from the cloud.