Clover: But then he was all, the loser has to shave their eyebrows off. Of course, I just had to accept.

Fox: Who ended up winning?

Clover: [laughs] Bonsai always talked the talk, but outside of books there wasn’t much he could do well. I also happened to be Peanut Brittle Bay’s reigning Ice Fishing champion.

Fox: Bye, bye Bonsai’s eyebrows. 

Clover: It took a whole month for them to grow back properly!

[both laugh for a few minutes]

Fox: What did Bonsai end up doing for a living anyway? Did he become an ice fisher? Because that would be hilarious.

Clover: Uh… no. I don’t know much about what Bonsai does. Whatever it is it’s “classified” as he always likes to rub in my face. All I know is he works for Macaron Pharmaceuticals.

Fox: Macaron what-a-whats?

Clover: [giggles] They develop… wait…. [pauses]  Where did Ember and Lubomir go?

“I crush her against me.
       I want to be part of her.
            Not just inside her but all around her.
I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge.
 I want our cells to braid together like living thread.”

― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

Day 9: Cursed!