[And show up, something does. It comes without ceremony, swift and noisy, shaking leaves left in its wake on its mindless pursuit straight ahead towards the beach--]
"HIYA FIDDS!!"
[And then from ridiculously close proximity and infinitely more horrifying than whatever that first thing could ever have hoped to be, bursts out the manic grinning face of Bill Cipher.]
"Good ole FIDDLESTICKS, I had a HUNCH Fordsy MEANT I'd find YOU here, ever since I HEARD the TEMP was BACK in TOWN!"
[Yes, he means you. I mean, clearly you'd have to be a temp, because it's not like you were Stanford's business partner on the Portal Project- that was Bill's title, thank you.
What is clearly NOT Stanford extracts himself from the rest of the foliage, eyes aglow, with what appear to be feathers by his mouth, and one very VERY obvious bloody stump of a missing arm. Bill rotates the joint trying to get some feeling back in it, advancing slowly.]
"Been COMBING the BEACHES looking for you. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THIS AIN'T ENTIRELY PLEASANT FOR ME. SO LET'S MAKE WITH THE DISSECTING AND MAGIC US UP SOME SCIENCE!-- or is it OPERATE? I THINK the term is OPERATE--!"
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"HIYA FIDDS!!"
[And then from ridiculously close proximity and infinitely more horrifying than whatever that first thing could ever have hoped to be, bursts out the manic grinning face of Bill Cipher.]
"Good ole FIDDLESTICKS, I had a HUNCH Fordsy MEANT I'd find YOU here, ever since I HEARD the TEMP was BACK in TOWN!"
[Yes, he means you. I mean, clearly you'd have to be a temp, because it's not like you were Stanford's business partner on the Portal Project- that was Bill's title, thank you.
What is clearly NOT Stanford extracts himself from the rest of the foliage, eyes aglow, with what appear to be feathers by his mouth, and one very VERY obvious bloody stump of a missing arm. Bill rotates the joint trying to get some feeling back in it, advancing slowly.]
"Been COMBING the BEACHES looking for you. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THIS AIN'T ENTIRELY PLEASANT FOR ME. SO LET'S MAKE WITH THE DISSECTING AND MAGIC US UP SOME SCIENCE!-- or is it OPERATE? I THINK the term is OPERATE--!"