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TICKLE POP!!!!!!!!!!!

*POUNCE*

[Flora]
* YOU'RE BACK!!
* I can't resist! You're too CUTE!
* I couldn't stop thinking about you! 🎶
* You're so fun to play with, you make me feel all nice and fluffy inside, I..
* I..
* I've been feeling awful lonely since you've been away on your big adventure!
* I had to spend *one whole day* without you! It was so HARD! 💦
* But now you're BACK! I feel like the happiest chocolate muffin in the whole wide WORLD!
* I bet you're really proud of me..
* Mmmmwah! MMMMWAH!
* Did ya find it, Tickle Pop? Did you find where we need to go next for our big adventure? 💜

[Flora is all over Pop, lying face down on him. Her big sharp eyes are begging for an answer..]

...

[Pop]
* mmnnff hnnffh--

[Flora]
* ...
* ...oh.
* W-whoopsie-- I- ah, I'll get off you now! 💦

[Pop]
* w-whew-
* ok
* now that i am slightly less smothered
* h-hi Flora 🤎
* oh right i uh
* ..havent found anything about the Truth Stone yet 💧
* today i tried very hard to look in the Magic Forest
* but i needed to cut my losses

[Flora]
* !!!
* H-huh??
* (Visible confusion)
* Cut.. your losses?

[Pop]
* ...y-yes
* i'm sorry i came back with nothing, I- 💦

[Flora]
* Pop! It's OK!! 💢
* I don't care about the Truth Stone! That can WAIT!!
* I want to know..
* Why'd you turn.. back??

[Pop]
* oh um
* how do i explain this
* yes i could have set up camp
* in fact that would probably have been a more efficient choice
* but i kindda just wanted to um
* _{check on you..}
* _{a little..}
* i know how you get haha

[Flora]
* (Eyes fill up with tears)

[Pop]
* ......!
* did i say something wrong

[Flora]
* nnnnNNNNN-
* (MOUTH WIGGLE)

[Pop]
* oh no