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Bella, Andi, and Robin all get on the plane. Bella and Robin have toothbrush caps in their pockets containing flies. Nothing in particular happens when they go through security. They fly for an hour, and then Bella, rather than risk crunch time due to turbulence or a line for the bathroom a little later on, gets up to take Trouble into privacy for demorphing and remorphing.
She takes the toothbrush cap out of her pocket and sets it on the tiny little counter, and then flattens herself against a wall to give him room.
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"At least eight, apparently. Trouble has the most and this is his eighth. We don't know, Elfangor didn't say - which suggests it's not a tiny limit, but we're trying to be conservative."
aeskhyne
Trouble wanders out from behind his tree and makes a face. "Being you is weird," he says to Charlie. And to Bella, "Can Ethan maul me already?"
"Yeah. Have fun. Dad, don't shoot a tree until we're ready for rangers to come running."
palmofyourhand
Ethan grins, ruffles Trouble-Charlie's hair, and morphs the grizzly bear again.
Mauling time!
Mauling time!
palmofyourhand
Ethan makes sure that there will be plenty of gnawed-on Charlie parts for the park rangers to recover and identify.
aeskhyne
And then Trouble demorphs and remorphs to pigeon, leaving behind as much of Charlie's clothing as he still had on him.
sundayfish
Charlie shoots a tree. He leaves the gun near its roots.
He hugs Bella and Andi, gets a crash course on morphing, turns into a little beetle, and enters a toothbrush cap and thereafter Andi's pocket.
He hugs Bella and Andi, gets a crash course on morphing, turns into a little beetle, and enters a toothbrush cap and thereafter Andi's pocket.
"Okay," says Bella. "Time to go crashing heedlessly through the woods like we just saw our dad die."
pandion
They find a park ranger. They babble at the park ranger. The twins keep hugging each other.
The park ranger escorts them to the nearest outpost of civilization and goes out with some other park rangers to look for Charlie while the girls are plied with little bottles of apple juice by a nice receptionist of some kind.
Andi gives the nice receptionist of some kind Renée's phone number.
The park ranger escorts them to the nearest outpost of civilization and goes out with some other park rangers to look for Charlie while the girls are plied with little bottles of apple juice by a nice receptionist of some kind.
Andi gives the nice receptionist of some kind Renée's phone number.
pandion
Andi goes to the bathroom to let Charlie demorph and remorph after it's been a while. She passes the toothbrush cap to Bella when the receptionist isn't looking so she doesn't wind up looking like she's been drinking gallons of coffee if they wind up staying here for a while.
It does, in fact, take a while for one of the park rangers to come back.
He tries not to be too pessimistic in front of the girls, but they've apparently found the scene and it apparently wasn't good. They're going to keep looking - he doesn't say it, but presumably it's to see if they can find the rest of the body.
He tries not to be too pessimistic in front of the girls, but they've apparently found the scene and it apparently wasn't good. They're going to keep looking - he doesn't say it, but presumably it's to see if they can find the rest of the body.
hold-infinity
Robin pushes for more detail once or twice, but then looks at the girls and goes quiet again.
The park ranger awkwardly pats Bella on the shoulder, but doesn't try it on the other girls when she shrugs him off and scrunches in towards herself.
The twins tell the rangers and receptionists how they got to the park (in Charlie's cop car, which other cops may wish to claim) and where Charlie lived and that apart from their mother there are no significant relatives about. The receptionist lady gives the girls a ride home and asks them if they will be okay by themselves.
They will, Bella says, be as okay by themselves as they can be.
They will, Bella says, be as okay by themselves as they can be.
sundayfish
After Bella has checked all the curtains and given him the all-clear, Charlie demorphs. He doesn't really have any tight-fitting clothes, but he goes and gets a bathrobe.