• Acai watched Übel pace around his throne room. "Kimi, gone. Jesse, gone..... All I have left is her...."

    "Hey Uby-dooby! Who's her?" Acai said, her voice easily shattering his frantic thoughts.

    "You," he said shortly, gritting his teeth. Turning on his heel, he returned to his pacing and muttering. "Just her...."

    "You make it sound like a bad thing," she said, flopping on her back and staring at her captor. His feet became bigger as he walked impatiently towards her, then smaller again as he wandered away. Watching him pace was making her ill, so she began to count the ceiling tiles. “One hundred and twenty eight,” she announced.

    The footsteps stopped. “Beg pardon?”

    “You have one hundred and twenty eight ceiling tiles.”

    “I’ll remember that,” he said coldly.

    “Don’t forget the one hundred and thirteen floor tiles and twenty wall sections,” she added in an irksome singsong voice.

    “Will do,” he said through gritted teeth.

    “Do you have chocolate anywhere? Because I’ve got the munchies and I need something to chew on.”

    Übel whirled around the glare at her, struck speechless with rage at how annoying she was. “I don’t have chocolate,” he finally managed to choke out.

    “When you spun around like that you looked like a girl.” A strangled scream of rage in reply, and she nodded. “I hear you, man. Life sucks like that.” Another, more exasperated scream, and a replying nod. “Hey, if you say a word a lot, it sounds funny after a while. Cupcakes, cupcakes, cup cakes, cake cups, cuppy cakes, cakey cups, cakitty cuppity, cakes of cups....”



    A few moments later Acai found herself dumped unmercifully on the road outside his lair. “Never come back again!” he shrilled from inside. “My master can capture you for himself!”

    Dusting herself off, Acai laughed. “Like I said before, who needs to escape when you can get kicked out?”