"You mean the news of yellow skull's hospitalization skirted your eardrums?! Grimalkinstringzias! The considerations that crises prune away from otherwise rational brainpanhandles!"

"yellow skull's mind plumbs widths and diameters unknown to any of the sum of us..."

"However, his insensible body reclines in a bed not twenty paces from us, behind yon door!"

"With the speed of an impatient bolt of lightning, fly to it!"

{ Aï! yellow skull! } "I run, in these socks, so to do!"

{ pink skull! }

"blue skull: amongst the coffee-hot fires of worry and care, it had slipped by my attention that you display none of the madness which you, until recently, cloaked your discourse with like an itchy papyrus sweater."

"It was such flim-flammery that spawned the non-entity figure of your 'personal advisor,' Leon Flemmin. Barry and myself had long since identified Mr. Flemmin as an inanimate cheeseburger."

"But naïvely walked yellow skull into a conversation with it, his brains slack of said knowledge. And as the shadows slunk back to wherever they hide from the torches and 60 watts, his delicate brains saw they'd confessed their innermost joys to ground beef."

"Unless there arrives a superior postulate as to the cause of yellow skull's collapse, I visit the blame for his subsequent shock squarely upon your doorstep!"

"...He..."

"...I...  ...I..."

"Imbécile! I leave you to fester in the saliva pooling in your mealy mouth!"

"But--I..."

(SLAM!)

"...I..."

"...love you."

"AAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

{ That sounds like the woman from the convenience store! }

"What could be that torments you so sharply, ma'am? Can I be of some assistance against the dread pangs it pours on you?"

"It's yellow skull!"

"Asp to my mind's eye, withdraw thy pointy, drippy fangs!! But, sweet clerk, do not cork your voice until all the present's venom is spilt!"

"He is...he's..." { My body listens on, albeit with the tiniest sliver of my sensory apparatus }

"He is gone!"

{ ! }

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