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This is MJ, author, artist, and analyzer.

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Join me for my 10 minute reading or writing session from March 10th, 2024.

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This is number 12 in A Grow Bug Tale, chapter 15, and it reads like this.

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Hey there, who's your friend, Cinderstripe?

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Timbertail asked.

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We're calling him Hopper.

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Say hello, Hopper.

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Hopper hesitated a moment, then said, Hello Hopper.

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A bit uneasily.

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Good one.

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Timbertail leapt off of her perch on WaveRex and drummed the ground with her palms.

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Good what?

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Hopper asked.

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Good joke!

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Timbertail tumbled.

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Are you alright?

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Hopper asked.

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No.

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The critter-bot monkey replied.

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What's wrong with her?

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Don't know, WaveRex replied.

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I'm not alright.

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Timbertail rolled and sprang to her feet.

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I'm great.

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I think I just got it, Hopper said to Cinderstripe.

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Yup.

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Got what?

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WaveRex asked.

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And that's all I wrote.

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So I'm paying off the little bit from earlier where Cinderstripe was warning Hopper not to

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take things seriously or personally from Timbertail because she was a jokester and I think I illustrated

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it well.

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And just because she's a jokester doesn't mean she's actually funny to the characters

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in the story.

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She amuses herself.

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And that's what's important.

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I want her to be light-hearted.

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That's definitely part of her character that I wrote previously.

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And I think Hopper being immune to her humor or charm or whatever is fine.

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Everybody else kind of is.

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Except for I think WaveRex might appreciate it a little bit more because he's like a simpler

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guy.

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Big softy.

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Big gentle giant.

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And I think I'm showing that as well here.

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And I think I'm showing Cinderstripe to be like a serious, straightforward, straight-laced

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kind of guy.

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He's not against having fun, but he's also not, you know, going to be clown himself like

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some other critterbots will.

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And I think I showed that stuff.

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So I'm pleased with that for now.

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And yeah, I'm excited to push these characters' interactions further.

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Pretty soon they have to basically accept that Hopper is not a threat or determine whether

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or not he's a threat, and then if he's not, kind of accept him to keep him close to keep

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an eye on him just in case something crazy happens with him down the line.

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So until next time.

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