>>5579148"Sorry. I guess the scenery made me want to try and say something wise like in fortune cookies."
"You've never had a fortune cookie, have you?"
"No. Are they good?"
"You like vanilla?"
"Vanilla? I thought they were lemon flavored."
"Not unless a Thule bakes them! But I like your answer, Izzy. That answer wasn't what I expected, but it was nice. You gave it some thought. Most of the time I ask someone something and they think its a joke...and by the way..."
Monster turns into a giant I'M SORRY card. He opens himself to reveal cursive writing that says REALLY.
"It's alright." you say.
"Sometimes I like to stick it to people and troll them because they're such killjoys. Teachers, for example, or sticks-in-the-mud like Sam and Tanya and Henry, but I didn't mean to mess with you. I'm sorry, as hard as that might be to believe."
"I believe you."
Monster turns into a giant teddy bear holding a stuffed heart that says AWWWWW. You get the sense he has trouble expressing himself without a veneer of irony.
"Sooooo we're going to be buddies now?" Monster asks. "BFFs? Amigos?"
>>5577973>>5578060"I was thinking we could get lunch together sometime. Talk about things."
"Not with Sam though?"
"No, that's not a good idea."
>>5578060"What about dad making you my new warden?" Monster turns himself into a zebra striped prisoner behind iron bars. "Do I get four square meals? Fresh air and sunshine? Daily walks?"
"Don't worry about me snitching to your father. I would rather talk about things with you instead of getting people involved."
"Now that is something I was hoping to hear!" Monster transforms himself into a buff, shirtless warrior wielding a long spear. "I was thinking about training you in that Monkey King present wrong on purpose as a joke, but since you'll half-ass the tattle telling, I won't half-ass the training!"
Monster snaps his fingers and the water below stops churning--stops moving entirely, in fact.
"Come on!" Monster says. "Let's take your new toy for a spin!"
"You got to have some powers other than shapeshifting." you say, looking at the water.
"My parents made me learn some bagua magic. All dragons learn magic before their scales harden to prepare them for the power." Monster leaps down to the water. It doesn't so much as ripple as he lands on it. "I don't hate power. I just hate being all-powerful and all-scaly."
"What did you do to it?" you ask concerning the water. "Freeze it?" You want to know exactly what he did to the water before you follow him.
Monster shrugs. "Made it not move. I don't think, scientifically, you could call it freezing the water. But what's science got to do with it, anyway?"
"Neat!"
"I'd teach you some bagua, but really, you could do a lot better than me for a teacher when it comes to that stuff. But when it come to shapeshifting, you'll find that I am without peer...because if the other guy is more skilled than me, I'll just turn into him!"
