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[opposite event] This is a story all about how Taxon got flipped, turned upside down.

The idea, as it had been initially presented, was for citizens to experience what it was like to walk in someone else's shoes. In practice it became discovering what it was like to walk in their own shoes, if their taste in shoes were suddenly quite different from normal. The footwear still fit and was comfy, but the style was quite different.

For two weeks the prisoners of Taxon swapped their utilitarian Doc Martin's for trendy Louboutins (or vice versa) and all manner of shenanigans reigned.

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DG had been in Taxon long enough to recognise a network posted with the hamster's sticky little paw prints all over it. What she didn't understand was why Glitch was acting so strangely.

"Finn?" she repeated, regarding him with concern as well as customary affection. "What are you doing, Glitch?"

"..and Maggie, and-- oh!"

The vocie startled Glitch and he tripped, tumbling to the ground. He got up on his hands and knees and looked around, confused. "Who who who said that?"

"Hey, take it easy!" she soothed, "It's only me! DG, remember? I'm on the tablet."

This wasn't good. DG was on her feet before Glitch had a chance to reply, pulling up his location from the tablet map and setting off without hesitation.

She remembered the time that he'd glitched so badly that he'd forgotten almost everything. Including her. She prayed - to something, to whatever someone from the O.Z was supposed to pray to - that it hadn't happened again.

"DG!" Oh yes, of course! How silly of him to forget. Glitch reached over, picked up the tablet, and gave it an absent-minded smile.

"Hello DG, I'm happy to see you." Pause. Blank stare. Resume smile. "I'm happy to see you."

Wait, didn't he just say that?

"I'm happy to see you too, Glitch."

She was worried - and growing steadily more worried by the moment - but she was happy. At least he wasn't frightened of her. There was some recognition there.

"Maybe I should come and see you properly? Not just using the tablet?"

It wasn't really an offer, since she was already on her way, but she wanted to keep him talking.

He nodded once, quite firmly. Oh yes, that would be very good, Glitch liked seeing his friends.

"Yes. I I I I'm by this...um...this-" He gestured, trying to come up with the word. "The thingy with water and splashing, and there's...fishy stuff. Fish!"

That was close enough, and a lot for someone with half-a-brain to remember all on his own. He smiled, proud of himself.

"Great!" she exclaimed, with genuine delight and even more genuine relief. That would make things a lot easier. "I won't be long. Just stay where you are and keep watching the fish, ok?"

It was fortunate that she was naturally patient enough to deal with Glitch when he was like this. And, even if she hadn't been, she'd have found a way to manage it.

"Oh, I will," Glitch replied, chuckling . "Hey, somebody outta, you know, name them. I-i-it's good for thing to have names."

And that's precisely what he went back to doing. Because.

At the moment, she was just glad that he remembered her name and had a reasonable idea of who he was.

She reached the fountain as quickly as she could, half running and half jogging and eventually walking the last few metres to greet him.

"Glitch?"

"...and--"

Yeah, the routine had started over again, but he's distracted by her greeting. Glitch grinned hugely and half-jogged over to meet her. "DG! Hi, I-- whoops." He tripped on some uneven pavement (or possibly nothing) but caught himself before falling. "Ha, th-that was close. I-I-I'm so glad to see you, how'd you find me?"

"I've always been good at finding you," she pointed out. Even when she'd returned to the O.Z with no memories of her previous life there, they'd managed to find each other. Even when they'd been brought to Taxon.

She looked him up and down, smiling in relief when it became apparent that he was all right. At least physically.

"With this," she added, holding up her tablet. "As long as you're wearing that bracelet ..." - she tapped the appropriate wrist with a finger - "... it can record where you are and let me know."

He nodded cheerfully in agreement because yes, she was good at finding him. Good thing too, since he was always getting lost what with the half-a-brain and all.

"What a nifty doohicky," Glitch said and stared at the tablet. Then he blinked and gasped. "Oh wait! I I I think I've got one too!" He fished his tablet out of his coat pocket and held it up triumphantly.

"Hey, this is the thingy I was talking to you with before." Pause. "Oh, right! Ha! I was talking to you before, that-that's why you...right."

"It's called a tablet," said DG with infinite patience and, underneath that, concern that she did her best to keep concealed from Glitch. Although it didn't change her affection for him - this wasn't his fault - she was worried about the trouble that Glitch would get himself into while this lasted. "You can use it to talk to anyone in the city."

Edited 2011-11-15 22:51 (UTC)

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