whatisreal | A quest just for Iron!

[The books have no titles...Though there seems to be faint outlines of where there may have once been a title, as though someone just picked off each the letters.]

[Most of the outlines are too faint to read, but there is one you can just barely pick out: What is Real?]

[ gonna see if he can pull that out ]

[With some wiggling and effort, you can pull the book out!]

[Looking at the cover of the book, you can only see the faintest outline of a rabbit. There may have been more, but it looks like the illustration had been scrubbed clean.]

[Do you open the book?]

[ brushes his hand over the outline of the rabbit before openning the book ]

[The outline gives you a faint sense of longing...]

[When you open the book, you find that all the pages only contain one thing.]

[Though gosh, there sure are a lot of that one thing.]

[ touching a random question mark ]

[As you touch the question mark, you see a memory...]

You're in a nursery, very similar to the one you left in the Past, but with toys scattered about the floor. You sit in the corner with a skin-horse that quietly rocks itself, the both of you watching the other toys as they continue their play. But a question tumbles itself way back and forth in your mind, before it finally escapes through your voice.

"What is Real?" you ask. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become Real."

There was one more question tumbling through your mind back and forth and back and forth and back and then it tumbles out of your mouth. "Does it hurt?"

[The memory ends before you hear the answer.]

[ Oh... Looks at that question mark for a moment before closing the book and setting it back on the shelf ]

[ Then he looks up at those cubbies and looks to see how one would climb into them ]

[They look as though they require careful maneuvering to get into, but if you were to climb above them, you could easily swing yourself inside one.]

[ going to try to climb and swing into the yellow one first!

[That's some fancy footwork you got there! You easily swing into the cubby and land on a soft pair of stuffed (toy) rabbit ears.]

[...and just the ears. There doesn't seem to be anything else in the cubby.]

[ takes a look at the ears before touching them, seeing if he gets a flash like from the book ]

[The ears are made of faux tawny brown fur with black tips. If you were to flip one over, you'd see that they even have a pink lining, mimicking the look of real rabbit ears.]

[You don't see a memory, but the ears feel incredibly soft and smooth, and you could almost --almost-- swear that the fur was real.]

[Real rabbits have ears like these, don't they?]

[ '-'... ]

[ swinging out of the yellow cubby and moves over to peer into the green one, to check what's in that one ]

[In the green one, you see a cute little rabbit's tail, made with the same faux fur as the rabbit ears. Isn't it cute? ♥]

[ super cute ]

[ and then following that by swinging to peer into the brown and blue cubbies ]

[In the blue cubby, you see a little the adorable hind legs of a rabbit, also made of the same faux fur as before and also (hopefully) a toy.]

[In the brown cubby, you see a realistic rabbit toy...missing the ears, tail and hind-legs, of course.]

[ contemplates for a moment before swinging back to the green cubby to see how heavy the rabbit tail is ]

[It's quite light! You could easily tuck it under one of your arms.]

[ shimmies back to brown to put it on the bunny ]

[As you attach it to the bunny, you find yourself with an intense desire to wiggle.]

[Fortunately it only lasts for two seconds, but you may find yourself wiggling through both of those seconds.]

[ wiggle wiggle ]

[ going for the ears next ]

[The ears are also light, though you'd need to wrap them around yourself to move back with them to another cubby.]

[ DEFTLY WRAPPING EARS AROUND HIS WAIST!! ]

[!!!]

[The ears are mildly confused about being belts but you should be able to easily travel with them now.]

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