Snickerberry Season

"Perhaps Yazeba likes her guests and staff to remember their own vulnerability" seeing the opportunity Moon Prince calls "Dibs" and snatches a berry from Hey Kid, then looks back to Robin, "Did I do that right? I'm not sure I understand this ritual"

"You get to take all of them, actually," Robin says to Moon Prince, giving them the other two berries Hey Kid left behind. "Now be careful not to let somebody snatch them back again! Get two more and you can store them in the kitchen for safekeeping."

The hulking elemental looks down at his own two berries for a moment. Then, he grins and offers them to the Moon Prince. "Here you go. I’ll get more, but I want to make sure you get a big piece of the pie later!"

The Moon Prince looks at Robin in bewilderment and then blushes, and looks away slightly "That's very kind of you, I supposed I'd best take these to the kitchen and maybe find something better suited to carrying than my handkerchief."

Hey Kid returns and is wearing… a sundress? "I had to borrow Hey Kid IV’s clothes. Becauuuuusss—Oh look pie!"

Hey Kid casually plucks a berry out from under a bird’s nest.

With a newly acquired thirst for berries, the Moon prince plucks the last from the closest bush, popping it into the small basket they'd retrieved.

"I love the look, Hey Kid!" Robin says. "Very cutesy! Very demure!" He carefully plucks the last berry from the bush with broken glass, sighing with relief when he is able to do so without injury.

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"Why thank you… but I’m borrowing from my sibling, so I better not pick from the muddy bush anymore.

"Hi, Yazeba. Can I borrow this?"

They YOINK a berry!

"You and the Moon Prince both have an impeccable sense of fashion," Robin says wistfully. "I wish I could find some fancy clothes in my size. Most of them either don't fit or immediately catch on fire as soon as I put them on. There's not much love for the big and tall and highly combustible among us."

He moves up beside Hey Kid and tries to pick another berry from the bush that sort of looks like Yazeba, but he ends up tripping over a gnarled root and stumbling headlong into the bush. "Oh! Oh, no! I'm so sorry!" he apologizes loudly as he becomes entangled with the bush.As he finally extricates himself, the bush seems to whisper and writhe hypnotically. Robin stops and stares at it, slack-jawed. "Oh... yes... yes, I understand," he murmurs. He drops his two berries, leaving them unattended as he pushes his hands together and focuses the heat from his body into an intense and pressurized blast. After a few minutes, he pulls his hands apart to reveal a little sparkling gem in the shape of a heart that he offers to the bush. "Is this what you are mising? I hope it is to your liking," he says to the inanimate plant.

Dog Dog n' Dog run to the berries and sniff them with curiosity!

"Ribf! Ribf!" Hey Kid barks on their dogs’ behalf. They pet Dog, Dog and Dog on each head and hand over the dibbed (or ribfed?) berries. "Whooo’s a good boys?"

By the time Robin recovers, Dog, Dog, n'Dog has scooped up the two berries he dropped. "Aw, flame! Oh well," the elemental says as he picks another berry from the Yazeba-bush.

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With everyone gathered around the Yazeba bush, the moon prince takes a look at another bush, it appears to have some kind of creature nesting within but Moon Prince doesn't think that take a berry will bother it.

Seeing the Moon Prince’s curious look, Robin helpfully explains, "Those are called ‘birds.’ There are a lot of different kinds in Earth. Do you have animals on the moon?"

Having recovered from her earlier boo-boo, Muckleby squishes her way over to the muddy bush. She reaches a pseudopod out to grab a berry, but the bush shakes too much and mud splatters all over her! As a being made of grime and muck, this normally wouldn't bother her, but her beautiful red bow gets very muddy as well.

"Oh no! Let me go get cleaned up," she says, oozing towards a nearby pond to wash off. She leaves a muddy, grimy swath of dirt and filth behind her--as well as her berries.Muckleby plops into the lake, squishing and squeezing her body like a person would wring out a towel. She gently brushes and scrubs her bow until it is shiny once again.

Hey Kid handles their own "DIIIIIIIIBS!!" and with two berries already, proudly declares, "These would be great in pancakes! But I wanna help bake the pie!"

Hey Kid generously donates the berries, a couple of which they picked themself.

Dog Dog n' Dog sees Hey Kid and leave their berries next to him. They bark happily and chase their tail.

As he awaits the Moon Prince's response, Robin moves alongside them and reaches for a berry from the bird's nest bush. Unfortunately, a few embers leap from his body onto the dry branches of the bush, setting a small portion of it ablaze. "Oh no! Not again!" the elemental wails.Startled by the smoke and flames, several of the grackles nesting in the bush caw and take flight, swarming all around Robin! He drops his berries again as he runs away, the birds chasing him. "Ah! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!" he cries out, running for cover.

The fire on the bush gutters out on its own, but the birds' nest is singed and damaged. "Don't worry, birds! I'll fix it! I'm something of a handyman myself!" Robin declares. The grackles caw and watch the elemental judgmentally as he sets to work enthusiastically rebuilding the nest, bigger and better than it was before.