Katz Spindle

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The Mephitis
12/2/2024 5:11pm



I spent some time roaming the grounds before dinner. The grass was trimmed, the pyramid tall. A few children with balloons and cotton candy wandering around. Where were their parents?

9 was a little late for dinner for me, and the corn-on-a-stick was looking like just the thing.

"ELOTE en stick" the vendor corrected me.

"How much?" I asked. "¿Cuánto?"

"Free! Todo incluido," said the vendor.

Perhaps @Captain Pirate IX had purchased us passes? I wasn't wearing a bracelet or anything.

I wandered back out to get a view of the pyramid, eating my corn. The sun was just about set, and I watched some vultures picking at a trash can.

"Whoo!" I heard. From the jungle?

"Whoo! Whoo!"

They have jungle owls?

"Whoooo is joining me for dinner?"

I turned, and it was Captain Pirate IX.




The Mephitis
4/17/2024 10:38pm



The Captain's always had a special interest in me, and it makes me uncomfortable.

Not in a creepy way. Not like that. It's just weird in terms of my relationship to the rest of the crew when he singles me out.

"Mask?" The captain and I are in the airlock.

"Yes, of course," I answer.

He opens the mask cabinet, which is filled with an array of theater masks from greek plays, Javanese theater, Noh plays, festival masks from Mauritania, cheap 20th century Halloween masks...

Sure, I was top of my class. But you don't want that to follow you around your whole life.

"Excellent choice," says the Captain. He always says that.

"Ready then. On three. One... two...."

The Captain pulls the lever on the airlock door.