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[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The next morning the Frumpy Fairy Godmother heads downstairs to make the coffee. She is still musing over the departure of the mesquite man as she lights the lamps in the kitchen. She looks to the wall, prepared to give the image there a "Good morning!" But the wall is blank. Her face falls and she sighs sadly, then she hears a faint cough.

"Hello? Are you there?"

[Scattered Thumbs]

Yup! 

*cough*  *cough*

< The air in the kitchen chills a bit >

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

She wraps her robe a little more tightly around herself.

"You don't sound good. Would you like some tea with honey?"

She doesn't seem to realize that she just offered tea to the wall.

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She wraps her robe a little more tightly around herself.

"You don't sound good. Would you like some tea with honey?"

She doesn't seem to realize that she just offered tea to the wall.

Talking to a wall. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

And ya telling me, I don't sound good? 

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Her face flushes to a dark pink as her mouth clamps shut. She turns away to make the coffee.

[Scattered Thumbs]

Ya look good in pink. 

Is that a vein popping on your forehead?

[Stoney Pete]

Smelling the coffee Stoney Pete wanders in from somewhere.  He's unsure of where he's been or what he's been doing.  He's really not sure what is going on.  (Read as Author has not been posting or following along and he is too lazy to read and catch up. )

He pours hisself a cup when he notices the FFG taking to the wall.   "Do I even want to ask FFG?

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother leans to kiss Stoney Pete on the cheek.

"Well, there was a painting of a man there last week, but now the painting's gone and all that is left is a cough and a voice that's making fun of me."

She darts a glare toward the wall.

"And it's a letch."

[Scattered Thumbs]

She darts a glare toward the wall.

Ya missed me! 

"And it's a letch."

I am not!

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

I am not!

"Are so! I don't dare lean against that wall, you might make a rude noise!"

She looks back to Pete. "He's incorrigible."

[Scattered Thumbs]

I am not!

"Are so! I don't dare lean against that wall, you might make a rude noise!"

Who sez I'z near the wall?

<The voice seems to come from the vicinity of the FFG left ear  >

"He's incorrigible."

HEY! I resemble that remark. 

< The voice now comes from one of the chairs at the table. >

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Who sez I'z near the wall?

<The voice seems to come from the vicinity of the FFG left ear  >

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother makes a tiny, high pitched sound and drops her coffee cup on the counter. Since it's Wedgwood, the cup doesn't break, but coffee flies everywhere.

HEY! I resemble that remark. 

< The voice now comes from one of the chairs at the table. >

She spins around, her skirt hem flying around her ankles, her eyes alarmed and wild.

"Pete, do you hear him, can you see him?"

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She spins around, her skirt hem flying around her ankles, her eyes alarmed and wild.

"Pete, do you hear him, can you see him?"

<Whispered on the FFG's right ear>

Calm down. He can't see me, and I'm not too sure if anyone can hear me besides you. Don't jump around so much or everybody will think you're a fruit cake. 
And I'm not the invisible man either, there's no physic presence of me. Just the voice.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

At the whisper, she stands shock still, the pink draining from her face, leaving it an unnatural white. Her own voice is the smallest of whispers. "Okie."

[Scattered Thumbs]

You're from Oklhaoma? 

[Stoney Pete]

"Pete, do you hear him, can you see him?"

"No, I don't hear anything.  Though I do not see anyone, with everything I HAVE seen around here I'd not dare say he/it wasn't real.  I never met a fairy god mother till you, I never saw a man turned to a leach till ST and Dell, and I never seen a plate come from the sky till one took Del.  Nope, this place has some unique characteristics.  I'll never say, "It don't exist.", again."

Stoney walks out on the porch and sees a new building over yonder and what looks like a not so new building by the pigs.  "Yep, the more things change, the more they remain the same."

Pete sits on the porch and listens real hard for voices.  That is other than those he talks with every morning.  He lights his pipe.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

She gives another tiny squeak as Pete leaves her alone with the voice. Her hand starts to flail after him, then drops to her side. No "fruit cake" for her. She whispers again.

"No, I am not from Oklahoma! What would make you think that?"

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"No, I am not from Oklahoma! What would make you think that?"

The "okie" 

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

She clears her throat and reaches for her coffee, but it is spilt on the countertop. She distractedly picks up a dish cloth and starts mopping up the mess.

"That's how I say 'ok' sometimes."

[Scattered Thumbs]

"That's how I say 'ok' sometimes."

I see.