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Braided Wonder
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> Yank the Foot. maybe flip through the Rolodex. try to categorize the foot <i>into</i> the Rolodex
You grab the foot— and yelp and drop it as the toes curl in your hand. Fuck! It swings forward and hits you in the head. Double fuck!
You rub your head, and squint at it. It was warm to the touch, so it probably belongs to someone still alive. Don't think you'll be pulling it down any time soon.
Instead you go for the desk drawers. With great care, so you'll notice if you're turning into a toad or coming out in boils or, like, melting, you pull on each of the handles.
The bottom right drawer slides open smoothly. You hear a click halfway through the motion. You freeze, on alert for growing a beak or your teeth falling out, but you seem to be as un-cursed as before you opened the drawer, which you take as a good sign.
Inside the drawer you see:
— Handfuls of snowflake confetti, which is slightly cool to the very tentative touch you give it
— A slide rule
— A half finished crossword
— Two marbles
The bottom left drawer jams an inch out, you jiggle it, but that only seems to make it retreat back into the desk. It sits so that you can see the top lip of the drawer, but nothing inside. You leave it sticking out as you move on, just in case pushing it in means you can't wiggle it out even this much next time.
The upper four drawers all open easily, and you hear clicks as you slide them in and out. After some careful listening, you find that they click a different number of times moving in and moving out.
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