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[Captain's log : Entry five-four-candy]
I was going to take Snippy to the Candy Mountain Restaurant that I discovered hidden in a fertile non-radioactive valley between two collapsed malls, but he refused.
Oh well. I guess I'll have a fancy feast with Pilot instead. I'm sure he will appreciate fine dining while Mr. Snippy can learn to be less negatory.
Maybe we'll bring Charles a piece of garlicky bread to snack on if he behaves.
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Captain just...
Threw a piece of something at me. It looked remotely like a loaf of garlic bread, so I took out my Geiger counter and waved it over the loaf. The loaf was non-radioactive.
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I slid the bread under my mask. The bread smelled fresh. I bit into it. It was warm.
Non-radioactive, non moldy, fresh, warm garlic bread!
"What? How? Where did you get this?!" I stuttered, but only after swiftly devouring the bread.
"Candy mountain!" captain waved a hand towards the decaying ruins of the mall district.
"Is there more food where this came from?" I inquired with a pinch of hope.
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"Alas, nay. Pilot and I had quite a magnifique feast which brought down the restaurant."
"How does one bring down a restaurant?" I inquired angrily.
"Piling too many things onto one plate, of course! Anyhow, the whole thing collapsed into a gaping chasm. The worms have it now."
I sighed. This sounded like an actual true story for once.
Chasms are always taking away potential food sources.
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. . .
I was feeling tired of walking on the endless, semi-destroyed highway and arguing with captain over 1024 ways of getting rich was a real grind on my nerves.
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Captain merrily shoved a moldy skeleton out of an old, rusted Toyota.
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The broken car seemed the safest option for a nap, so I settled next to Captain on the seat. We had a small argument over the lack of roads.
"Adventure awaits us!" Captain demolished my thesis about the lack of drivable roads or the fact the car was completely rusted and dead.
"Suuuuure, sure. Wake me when we get there." I leaned as far back on the seat as the broken old seat control would allow for.
. . .
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Captain was poking me in the shoulder.
"Bhuh?" I slurred from my peaceful slumber.
"We are here!" Zee proclaimed.
I opened my eyes to discover something odd.
The car still looked the same - as rusted and as dirty as before, but the view outside of it looked different. We were no longer on the highway.
"What? Did you make Pilot drag the car here while I slept?" I muttered, looking around suspiciously.
"No, silly! We took the rainbow!" Captain waved a gloved arm into the sky, as if traveling on rainbows was the most obvious of transit options.
I stared suspiciously at the Captain's hand-watch. The watch had four hands to it. The big hour hands were colored green and blue. I chose not to question this.
I noted that I slept for less than 7 minutes according to the watch.
Yea... Right. Captain must have just wound the watch backward to mess with me.
I leaned towards the window, only to discover that the car was now parked on top of a skyscraper.
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