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Sherbert stared into Charles the First’s eyes as they bit into the deep fried chicken wing. They wanted the message to be absolutely clear. Ocie said she ate fish to spite her fish so why couldn’t Sherbert eat chicken to spite Charles. Well eat chicken in front of Charles at least, they’d eaten chicken before. The staring contest continued while Sherbert devoured the chicken wing. Finally when all that remained was bone Sherbert tossed the scrap to Charles. He didn’t break eye contact as he pulled the bone back towards him with his talons. Sherbert wasn’t sure what to do now. Ocie casually went on with her day after eating the fish but then again she wasn’t locked in a staring contest with her opponent? Foe? Sherbert was still stuck in the staring contest with Charles while the world laughed around them.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if Charles pulled out a human arm to eat to spite Sherbert back,” a piece of grass mentioned oh so helpfully. This got everything else laughing.
“L,” a dandelion added. Oh geez here they go.
“L,”
“L,”
“L,”
“L,”
“L,”
“L,”
“Ok I get it!” Sherbert huffed. Charles was a menace enough they didn’t need the world also joining in on the Never Ending Torture and Mind Bending of Sherbert-Quake™. Then again it already kinda was against them, continuous changes and all. Yep the world was out to spite them too.
“Are you- guys? Voices? Umm whatever you are connected to all the changes?”
“No.”
“Yes.”
“Maybe.”
“No.”
“Who knows *smirks*”
“No.”
“Yes.”
“Like we know.”
“L.”
“Not telling.”
“Maybe.”
“Yes.”
“No.”
Welp, that wasn’t helpful. They hadn’t expected it to be helpful but they could wish sometimes, right? They glanced back at Charles who’d they’d broken eye contact with in their exasperation. Charles the menace as always was pecking at the bone. Sherbert should probably take that back at some point before he turned it into a weapon. He was dangerous enough as it was. Sherbert constantly had to file down his talons and he still couldn’t be put with the rest of the chickens because he’d peck and scratch them. Yep the world gave Sherbert a hostile attack chicken, multiple really since he seemed to keep duplicating. It was in the 30s now of reported Charles sightings plus the good 11 or so Sherbert had seen themselves.
Yep the world was spitting Sherbert. And they’d spite the world right back.