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John R. Lunise
2/8 near Recolle
On the subject of horses, allow me to ask you a question: When you were a child, what was the name of the bear family who taught valuable life lessons in easily digestible books?
Chances are, you answered 'the Berenstein Bears'. And, as it happens, that is incorrect; it is the Berenstain Bears.
How can everyone misremember this? How can something so patently true turn out to be terribly false? Some people will tell you it is the 'Mandela effect', named after a shockingly large number of people believed Nelson Mandela died in prison... but simple mass misremembering is a fairly boring answer, isn't it?
Consider instead a possibility physics allows us: that infinite universes exist, that every possibility spawns a diverging universe. Consider then that these different universes must be ruled by mathematics and science, that were were able to observe them, some concrete, tangible difference must exist to distinguish them.
Consider also that the laws of physics as we know them are, in some cases, simply and utterly inoperable. The quantum scale, for example. Or a naked singularity. It is, therefore, conceivable that through some quirk of physics, some awesome miracle... we have merged or shifted into a world in which horses never existed, and chocobos always did.
Impossible, you say, and perhaps rightly so... but I have no better explanation.

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Eleanor Lamb What you'd want and what you could get are very different things.
Eleanor Lamb The beads from the parade.

John R. Lunise What about them...?

Eleanor Lamb I can't take mine off.

John R. Lunise I am afraid to even attempt to visualize this.

Eleanor Lamb It's like they're glued to a spot just behind my neck.
Eleanor Lamb Which sounds utterly mad, I know.

John R. Lunise I assume you've tried the usual run of solutions?

Eleanor Lamb Tried cutting them off, pulling them off, even had someone try with a lighter, that was fun.
Eleanor Lamb They're just not coming off.

John R. Lunise Why was fire your third choice?!
John R. Lunise What about dissolvers for glue? It sounds like a rather twisted prank.

Eleanor Lamb It's the third thing someone suggested.
Eleanor Lamb I have some nail polish remover would that do the same thing?

John R. Lunise Google tells me that it works for clear glue, whereas an epoxy requires denatured alcohol.

Eleanor Lamb I have no idea what is holding these things together.

John R. Lunise I suggest you attempt the applied scientific method: keep trying until something works.
John R. Lunise Although please, no more fire, Eleanor. I would be displeased if I had to visit you in the burn ward.

Eleanor Lamb Hopefully it'll break before I run out of ideas.
Eleanor Lamb But I will be careful.

John R. Lunise You could always come by the chemistry lab in the high school, and be a learning project.

Eleanor Lamb I'm fairly sure I don't want a bunch of chemistry students accidentally turning my neck into goo or something.

John R. Lunise I assure you we take every reasonable precaution in our science labs, and no one can prove otherwise so long as they don't check the crawl space under the chemical storage room.