"How do you do it?"
"You gotta be dead first."
"No, I mean, 'Keep it all inside?"
"Exactly.
You gotta be dead."
"To yourself...…or to others?"
"Get some sleep. I'll call you when I need you."
"Can I come with you?"
"Come again?"
"To play Laser Tag?
...I uhhhh...…My Wife is still at work, and the Kids; school, so I got no one to..."
"Sure. Sure.
Of course you can come. One more player never hurt anyone.
You ready?"
"Ummmmm…"
"What? You don't like the way I'm holding onto you or something? Never been this close to a Princess?"
"It's not that. It's just....Can we take a car?"
"What? You don't like your atoms splitting apart into millions of tiny microisms, and then reforming back to where you want them to be? Afraid that one of these time, they might get stuck in the Void; or worse....disconected indefinitely to where they just float away in space. Never to be seen again?"
"When you say it like that, what could go wrong?"
"About that?"
"Ruuuu…byyyy!!!!!
Where's my car?"
"I thought it wasn't yours."
"Where's my Bosses car?"
"....At the bottom of the Lake.....but....I did see Theo's men climb out, so that's good news. Right?
......…I could go retrieve it for you."
"Do you not understand how....Urggggghhh.
Nevermind."
"What?"
"When cars go through water, they don't necessarily like to run afterwards."
"What about a Car wash? I've seen cars still run, today."
"The inside...…Ruby. The inside.
I was right when I told Theos men that my boss would kill me if I lost two cars in one day. Now, he is most likely going to do a Jig over my grave as well."
".....What if he never finds out?"
"Ruby, you're not going to steal another car, just to replace the one we lost."
*Huuuuuuuu…..Haaaauuuuuh*
"Then we have no other choice."
"Ruby."
"Stain, you got one car in the Impound, and one at the bottom of the Lake. A washed up car is better than no car."
"I know, but in your dress? Won't you ruin it?"
"Don't you….."
"Ruby."
*Vroom*
"Someone has to."
*Blur..blur….blur…blur....blur…blur…blur*
*Swish...….swish....swish...…..swish.....swiiii....Clink*
"God, I please hope this is the car and not an anchor."
*Vroom*
*..........BOOM...…BOOO...BOOOM*
"I found your car.
Will this do?"
"Ruby, you didn't have to bring the whole Ecosystem.
Shuuu…..fishies. Shuu.
Get out of here seaweed."
"What are you doing?"
"What? You protect the fishies now, as well as Nature?"
"No. I...….I brought you back your boss's car, and fish for food.
Now you can fry them off up and offer them as a peace offering."
"I don't think ten fish is going to replace the $200 bill to get his car back from the Impound and pay for damage done."
"No. But it will fill his tummy and make him too full to move and land a punch."
"Haaaa.
You know how to lighten a mood."
"I don't know about that.
Inside, I am just as stressed as you are, but for different reasons. Just trying to make others as less uneasy as me."