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“Anyway…” Your joke was successful, time to move on to more serious matters. “I need to take the green flag down.” You’re in Comfy Kingdom Territory! It stands for coziness and comfortableness! Ivanna and Boring Bert stood for nothing like the color green of their flag! Screw Green!
You ponder if the sand structure can withstand your weight on top of it. How did you put the flag there to begin with? How did the kids get there? There’s no hole? Did they jump? You can jump too, you can reach farther than those midgets ever will because you’re much taller. Taller AND wiser. You’ll show everyone how tall and wise you are by jumping on a sand castle without destroying it!
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“Phil, don’t <span class="mu-i">worrrrry</span>! The castle can withstand your weight.” Mirjam notices you stopped moving once outside.
“Yeah, Sugar made it Fat Proof, whatever that means…” Grace isn’t sure who’s supposed to be fat here. “She said ‘There won’t be any more feeble castles that can’t take one kick anymore’ or something like that.” Grace imitates Matilda’s voice almost perfectly, too much emotion though. It wasn’t one kick…
“R-Right…” You cough. Did they read your subconscious? That’s illegal, not even Philonune can do that. “Here I go.”
You go up the Sand Ladder by the Sand Wall of the Sand Castle and take off the non-sand Green Flag from the non-sand pole and put your appropriately colored Purple Comfy Flag up instead. The more you look at this structure, it looks more like a military base than a medieval building. Whatever, the foreigner coalition has been eradicated, you have brought peace back to the land. You jump down and almost eat dirt.
“There.” You act cool even if you briefly thought you’d snap your neck from the fall. “Well, girls, your mission now is to make sure the Castle doesn’t get taken away by evil forces of doom.”
“So, like, Oliver?” Grace tilts her head. “He said something about being evil or somethin’. It was, like, kinda sad.”
You’ve kinda realized now that everyone is calling Oliver by his actual name (you did before, you just didn’t say anything, you swear). He didn’t bother to stick with being ‘Leo Major’! What’s the point of being Phil then?! Philonune says it’s a great name though.
“Him too. Remember, Wilma and Cookie are your allies. Y’all must protect the Comfy Kingdom at all costs.” No outsiders can take away what’s rightfully yours.
“What’s that?” Mirjam notices you’re acting like a weirdo.
“You’ll understand later.” You wiggle your eyebrows. Yeah! They’ll know when you cuddle together! “Now, I must go, I need to buy something.” Protection! There’s no Bradford Jr. that can help...
“Can you buy us a present? Y’know, for defending the castle.” Grace gets excited. “I mean, the castle will be fine… <span class="mu-i">but that flag</span>.”
“Sure.” You accept. Damn tomato mercenaries…
