09x05 - The Parfait Predicament

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Calm down into depths of no.

In.

I'm so glad the four of you are still the four of you.

Not always the case in the ever after.

You're the one who ditched us in the first place.

Which, by the way, was how we ended

up in that mushroom house to begin with.

You know, or that delirious caterpillar guy

tried to drug us and then was swallowed

up by a freaking hole in the ground.

Yes, yes. Alex had a similar reaction

the first time she saw someone return to the ever after.

But it's not how it seems. Well, I suppose it is, but not

the way you think. If you think like Alex,

which it seems like you do.

Ha ha! We're here.

Better run.

So Kat. Going to explain to us how

a giant caterpillar disappearing into a hole

isn't how it seems.. When we break or wear out, or simply

finish what we were made to do.

We're called back, but herb, his heart was too weak to listen,

so I gave him a little bit of mine.

Is he.. Dead? Oh, no.

No. Well, maybe a little bit, but not at all.

Which is it? Now that Herb's properly returned,

he'll be fixed up nice and made

into the herb he wanted to be when he was still herb.

Then he'll come back and find his purpose.

Could be the same as before. Or maybe not.

When herb comes back, will he remember anything?

What would be the point of that? Just like Alex. You lot.

I know, I know where you're from. Things die,

but we're just not like you at all.

We ascend. Herb will have a purpose again.

That's impossible. Things have to die someday, right?

Well. Goodness, no. Though I suppose there is a creature.

No, no, that's not the sort of thing

you talk about in polite company.

Get your hot fresh. What happened to her?

Is that what happened to the king? Come on.

Try our mud cookies. They're delicious.

It was all very sad. The Red

King couldn't cope when he lost to Alex. A crying mess.

Thankfully, he was called back and fixed up.

And now he's the prince you met fixed up.

The prince was worse. The prince isn't supposed to be nice.

He's meant to play the game and. Win no matter what.

So that's why he cheats when the Red King didn't.

But that still doesn't explain why the

Red Prince was so much meaner.

While the Prince may not remember Alex's

deception after ascending the heart. Very rarely forgets.

But there was nothing about ascension in the story.

Of course not. Exposition is terribly boring.

Even this conversation was, on the whole, rather tedious.

I wonder what else Alex left out.

Well, Jamaica. Yogurt parfait. One needs a bushel of grumpy ivy.

One good sized spicy potato, the lint off of Griffin's sweater,

Ethel's dragons and more should have that which is right next to.

I'll never remember all of that. No,

I can procure those. But there's another ingredient

we must have that's only available on the third level.

Some nose hair from a leprechaun.

Oh, what if you retrieved that while I go get the rest?

Sure, I guess so. Wonderful. Look for the teapot lady.

She'll have it now. Off you go. Ooh!

Ooh oo oo. Guess I'd better go with the cat.

So they don't get distracted by a

shiny doorknob. And never come back.

I'll go with you. Get me as far

away as possible from any nose hairs, please.

I'll go with you. Ruby. Huh?

Nice try, Kitty. But we're coming along.

Oh.

And.

Lusty lady. Tea bag lady.

Does that one interest you?

I thought this was lost forever. How do you have it?

Nothing. No one is ever truly lost.

And what have you.

Are you lost? That? No, no.

I just. My friends went somewhere else.

You're doing this all alone. I. Ruby,

I don't think we're supposed to be here.

Are you her guide, little one? Yes,

Ruby is my friend and I want to help her get home.

Even though I don't know where that..

Is or how to get there.

Hmm.

You seem to be carrying a rather large burden with you.

I'm fine. I can handle it. If you change your mind,

you may choose any one.. Of these you like.

And set your burden down.

I already have a w*apon. I did. And yet here you are,

searching for something else that you do not even know.

Ruby. Ruby. Ruby?

Who are you talking to? Did you retrieve the notaire? Come on.

Try our mud cookies. They're delicious. You

don't want to miss him? No, not. Not just yet.

But. Ruby. Come on. We got everything else.

I'm sorry. Is that the teapot lady?

That's mud cookies you've ever had. Oh, welcome to..

Feathers and Things. Oh, can..

I help you? Looking for nose hairs? No, not the ogre ones.

Oh.

Woo hoo! A festival.

The locker or not.

Wait, please. We need those leprechaun nose hairs. Oh, time.

I'll give you this. It carries the mother's promise. Who?

It. This is exceedingly bad. Wait. What's a jabber walker?

It's a truly terrible creature. If the jabber

walker eats one of.. Us, we do not ascend. Huh? How

do we make the parfait thing?

Toss everything in here. But be careful.

Eat too much, and we'll have to shrink you back again.

And that's a completely different potion.

It wasn't enough.

Right? Right.

Run. What's he doing here?

I gave him something new to do for the moment. Now go.

Your friends need to get big again, or we're Jabba Walker dinner.

It's the rest of night.

Finally.

What you got was.

Hey.

Neo, huh?

What? There's only supposed to be one.

What? Run! This way!

Ruby! Come on! Go! We'll hold them off.

I am so tired of leaving places in ashes.

I can't believe it. The Rusted knight in person.

You did good. Juniper.

Team ruby.

You finally made it.