“ As irritatingly curious as ALWAYS, ” He had wanted to say. Of course, his PRISON didn’t permit him to make MUCH noise ━ if any at all ━ and whenever Mabel had reacted to his previous test, he was proved wrong in his theory. Interesting━ that had never worked BEFORE, granted, his only visitors were squirrels and other forms of WILDLIFE that simply hung around to, in his mind, MOCK him even at his lowest possible point. It was INSULTING no matter the form an annoyance took. One knock. Two knocks. Three━ ow, that’s his EYE.
Instead of continuing the game of Knock-Knock, he settles for complete silence. Besides, it’s more HILARIOUS to watch people contemplate their sanity ! Or at least, that was what he had PLANNED on doing before he abruptly changed his mind. It’s been quiet for TOO LONG.
“ I KNOW YOU’VE GOT EARS, KID ! TRY USIN’ ‘EM FOR A CHANGE ! ”
Arguably, it wasn’t the BEST COURSE of action. It’d likely be better for him to try and BUTTER HER UP and ask for ASSISTANCE from breaking outta this EGGSHELL, but his former SUCKING-UP ABILITIES failed him this moment as the SARCASTIC COMMENT escaped him. Oh well. At LEAST he had the pleasure of getting to know how DISTRAUGHT he still made the family. Sweet, sweet memories.
Her fun tune was interrupted by another muffled cry that confirmed her suspicions. Her fist halted mid knocking, eyes widening in a momentary daze as she tried to process what happened. That wasn’t actually Bill, was it? It must be a gnome... a dumb unicorn or... or something else! The forest was loaded with supernatural creatures that spoke or at least understood a human language.... there’s gotta be an explanation for what she heard!
She tightened her lips and furrowed her brows. Mabel bolted up on her knees, stretching past the statue from her stance on the ground to check if there was anyone behind it.
She looked left and right, palmed around Bill’s edges, sides and in his general area in the hope to find a device or a pixie that tried to prank her into thinking the statue was alive, but instead of retaliating with a triumphant ‘aha!‘ as she snatched the wretched devil from behind the demon’s corpse, Mabel gently succumbed back to sit on the ground, hands falling into her lap as her heart all but leapt out of her chest. She felt sick.
“ ... Bill? “ Finally. She barely managed to choke out his name. Her family wasn’t going to be happy to know that he was still alive after everything they went through, but ignoring him altogether was probably not a good idea either. Though, to be frank, that was exactly what the Pines have been doing til she literally stumbled over him and scraped her knee. Ouch. Her guts were right. She should’ve walked in the opposite direction.