[ video. ]

[enchants]

[ Obviously there's a struggle to hold the camera still. Two potentially familiar voices are in a scramble. Not that they just ran away from the hospital without formally checking Cat out of it. No one is really prepared to get a screen full of angry hamster face, but here it is regardless, overlaid with voices of sheer panic: ]



Holly! Holly! You don't understand! HE'S GOING TO MURDER ME! Look at his face! ... Can pudgy little cheeks look pissed off like that? Because he does and that's just freaky! You can even tell it's him.

[ Cat rushes into the camera view, blocking out the sight of the very annoyed rodent. He's clearly trying to balance this camera phone in his left hand and it's not the smoothest ride, but for now he'll cart it around with him as Holly and Cat attempt to contain the troublemaker.]

Okay, network. I.. could use some pretty urgent advice here. I just turned Skyler Veracruz into a— that's a hamster right? [ Cat turns away from the camera a moment to get Holly's mumbled confirmation, before turning back. ]

—Yeah, a hamster. Anyone familiar with magic... or .. hamsters. Just send a video or text or I'll meet you somewhere with him —Holly, where'd he go?

[ Another several moments of chaos pass as the camera jostles around before Cat's face pops back into view, Holly's head popping up behind his shoulder, trying to contain hamster Skyler from scrambling. The hamster looks positively dejected now. The look of disapproval is quite strong here, folks. ]

I'm hoping he'll calm down soon... Holly's already tried to change him back, if anyone has any clue how to take care of a .. human hamster... [ Okay, even Cat is starting to chuckle and laugh. After all Skyler has been a constant bully in the hallways for several years. If he'd known who was tagging along with Holly he might have declined the visit. Let's just pass the camera over to Holly for now. ]

Oh um- Skyler stop wiggling so much I don't want to drop you what if they have a cat here?- Yes um- Help would be great! Why does this always happen to me?

[ Cat cuts back in a moment later: "Here, hand him back to me." He'll have to hold the hamster between his cast and good hand meanwhile. Holly takes over the video again while Cat pokes at Skyler's chubby cheeks in the background. ]

Please help!

[ Just before the video cuts off you can hear Cat chuckling, "I think he looks better this way!" ]

Comments

voice

[theboywiththebook]

[Oh jeez And people thought belief power was a bad thing.]

At least it's not penises this time.

[That's the only positive to this situation.]

( voice. )

[enchants]

[ Belief goes a looonnnng way. ]

. . . I'm glad I missed that.

( voice. )

[theboywiththebook]

[There's just the tiniest of exasperated sighs.]

I think a lot of people wish they did.

So, how long is he gonna be stuck like that? Because I don't think they live very long.

( voice. )

[enchants]

We're working on that. Someone's going to help us pick up supplies for him. I mean, he could be some kind of were-hamster, right? Maybe I should just hold him up to the moonlight tonight and hope he changes back.

( voice. )

[theboywiththebook]

Well, how'd you do it? Maybe you can do it aga-

[Wait, did he just say were-hamster? If this guy could see his face, Henry's making a face. A face that just says you gotta be kidding.]

That's the dumbest thing ever. Unless you hold him out the window like in the Lion King.

( voice. )

[enchants]

[ Huffs! ] Well I'm running out of ideas here!

I'm not going to be holding him up like the Lion King. My right arm is in a cast.

What else am I supposed to call someone who just became a hamster? Holly and Skyler can kind of do magic. He might just figure it out on his own, but I'm going to go to the library tomorrow and see what I can find if he's not back to normal.

( voice. )

[theboywiththebook]

I'm just trying to help, you don't have to bite my head off!

[Help in the most snarky ways possible, but help he is.]

The only thing I can think of is what I do when I turn things into other things and that's just believing.

[Why couldn't they have a Hogwarts or something? Make it easier to cure these magical things.]

( voice. )

[enchants]

You're right.

[ OH! So you can do it too, huh? Cat surely catches on to that and seems to fixate. ] Can you turn people into other things?

Do you think you could turn him back?

( voice. )

[theboywiththebook]

Um...

[He sounds very hesitant. Turning people into other things? He bites his lip for the moment questioning if this is really a good idea.]

Well, I dunno. I've never done people before. Just stuff. I...well I could try?

( voice. )

[enchants]

oh.

Maybe this isn't such a good idea... It might wear off in a few days. If it doesn't, is there another way I could get in contact with you if we wanted to give it a try?

( voice. )

[theboywiththebook]

Or it may be permanent. But, if it doesn't wear off just ask for Henry on here. I'll try something but I can't promise anything.

( voice. )

[enchants]

..Thanks Henry. I hope we figure something out before too long. I'll see if maybe I can do something else. Something really small before we use Skyler as a guinea pig..

erk.. .uh. A labrat.

Damn it!

A test subject!

( voice. )

[theboywiththebook]

[Snrk. Woops. Henry's laughing at that unintentional pun.]

That was really bad. But, I'll try doing stuff with bugs. See if my Truest Believer thing can do that with animals and not just stuff.

( voice. )

[enchants]

'Truest Believer'?

... T-That sounds pretty corny! Is that what your magic is called?

( voice. )

[theboywiththebook]

Hey, I never gave it the title. Some teenager in a jungle said that's what it's called!

Besides, I think it's cool.

( voice. )

[enchants]

I'm starting to think your pulses are more interesting than mine, sans hamsterification.

( voice. )

[theboywiththebook]

I dunno, I mean turning people to hamsters is pretty useful. We could do that to Sherman, lock him up and then change him back.

( voice. )

[enchants]

I heard he did some terrible things. Honestly, I'm a bit glad I missed them...

( voice. )

[theboywiththebook]

I heard he killed some teenager...it's probably better you just stay away from him.

[Wow things got depressing fast.]

voice

[keywarding]

[From across the room you here:]

That was your fault?! [Her image of Skyler is just... being destroyed.]

voice

[theboywiththebook]

Huh? Who's what's fault?

[Is she speaking to him? Or to somebody else in not shown in the video?]

voice

[keywarding]

Oh, oh not you! Sorry! I'm just... learning a lot more about Skyler than I ever knew.

voice

[theboywiththebook]

You mean you didn't know about that? It was all over the network! He went completely nuts or mind controlled or demonic possession.

[keywarding]

There were a few days I didn't check the network at all because I was... getting back grades in school.

[theboywiththebook]

Lucky few days for you than. It was really awkward and he kept saying people needed to know he was a...um...it starts with a d.

[He shakes it off quickly. Right back to the problem.] Anyways, you sure your card thing can't do anything if you've managed to make it work yet?