"What d'you mean?"

"How'd you make the tunnels? Where'd the giant worm thing come from?"

"I made the tunnels with giant worm things, of course."

"Where'd you get the giant worm things?"

"Hatched 'em out of eggs."

"Where'd you find the eggs?"

"I am giving you the runaround because I don't wanna talk about it!"

"Oh. Where'd the slime come from? Why are the slime and the worms you?"

"What do you mean, why are they me?"

"Telepath."

"The same one I was talking to earlier?"

"...Yes?"

"Why didn't you say so?"

"It didn't seem relevant?"

"Kind of impolite, talking to somebody when you know you were just talking to them a minute ago but they don't, and not saying anything about it."

"Oh."

"It's the sort of thing you'd do if you wanted to trick somebody into saying things they wouldn't have said if they'd known who they were talking to."

"I didn't know that."

"Well, now you do."

She looks down.

"Everyone I talked to already knew, before."

She sighs. "Yeah."

She and magnetism girl hug very tightly.

Balls of slime filled with assorted trash start fountaining out of the tunnel entrance. They've eaten all the non-metal parts already, leaving just the wires and hinges and staples and screws and bolts and brackets and one badly rusted cast-iron frying pan.

Magnetism girl half turns away from the hug, her face lighting up. The various metal objects soon lose their defined shapes, becoming instead fluid snakes of iron that conglomerate in the air into a shining metal ball at about adult head height.

"There's more where that came from, but I don't know how long you're all planning to stick around."