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[curiousher]

This is all terribly confusing! There's something very fishy here, and it's not any kind of fish I ever saw. It's a confusing fish of a different name altogether. Like Bruce, or Isabelle, or Marzipan. Those aren't names for fishes at all!

Who are you all? Are you who you've been saying you've been being? Are you all some kind of fishes that have been walking about on land? Well, you're going to get everything all wet if you keep doing that! What kind of fish are you anyway?

Maybe I'm not even Alice! Maybe I've been a fish all this time!

Excuse me, could one of you fishes tell me what sorts of sounds I'm supposed to be making? I don't think I've ever heard a fish. Is it a glub-glub sort of noise?

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[helena-campbell.livejournal.com]

Or maybe they know how to talk, like parrots. Maybe they just talk when we're not looking.

Yes, it does. Like how lionfish don't look anything like lions at all. Except maybe if you squint at them and imagine really hard.

[curiousher.livejournal.com]

Perhaps! Or maybe they all talk all the time, and we just don't hear them. They could be trying to tell us something!

No, they don't really. It takes quite a lot of imagine for them! Or even goldfish. They're not really gold at all! Most of them are orange, but even the ones that aren't still aren't the right color!

[helena-campbell.livejournal.com]

What would fish have to say, I wonder? It could be really important.

That's true. Why would anyone call them gold in the first place? But I suppose orangefish doesn't sound as nice. I bet the fish wouldn't like it. Gold is much more dignified.

[curiousher.livejournal.com]

It could be terribly important, something they really want us to know! Maybe we could learn to speak fish somehow, but that seems awfully difficult.

No, it doesn't sound so good, does it? Gold is almost...regal, I think. For King and Queen fishes, and the royal fish of the fishy courts. I doubt they'd settle for anything less than gold.

[helena-campbell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I doubt there'd be dictionaries or things like that to help us.

All the silver fish must be really disappointed. Like tuna. Imagine being second place all the time, to a little goldfish! It's not even really gold to begin with. [Okay, Helena is starting to falter because the conversation has completely left logic behind.]