Chell couldn’t find mummah, the hidie-blankie smelled like poopies and she could smell milkies that needed numming but she couldn’t go num them because the wall wouldn’t stop screaming, everything was awful!
It took many forevers of Chell hiding under the blanket before the wall fluffy stopped screaming, and many more forevers beyond that before the wall didn’t start screaming again every time Chell poked her head out from under the blanket. Eventually, the wall fluffy stayed quiet, just watching her as she cautiously made her way to the not-mummah milkies thing.
Now that she could see it, it looked even less like mummah then it did when she couldn’t see it. She didn’t like that it was a not-mummah thing, why couldn’t it just be mummah, it seemed so simple to Chell. She drank firmly and rapidly, with the wall fluffy watching her all the while.
Several times it made noises, but they were nowhere as loud as earlier, and Chell simply looking back at the blanket was enough to make the wall fluffy shut up.
Once Chell had had her fill, the milkies not-mummah went away like it usually did, but this time Chell could see that it went up and out of her little box to leave. At something of a loss as to what to do, and not wanting to interact with the wall fluffy lest it start screaming again, Chell took a moment to look around the room.
There were several things in the room, including a litterbox with the special little ramp for foals. A white Hasbio brand ‘fluffy baww’ with one of the optional, but now very faded, custom messages printed on it sat in the next corner, next to four tiny foal sized Hasbio brand ‘fluffy stacking blocks’ and one of the Hasbio brand teething ring/foal rattle/tug of war rings, which was badly deformed after an unknowable number of uses.
Chell decided to play with the blocks first, and once she had made it over to them for a closer look, she saw that each corner had the same kind of faded message printed on it as the ball, although each side was different.
Chell did not know how to read, and so even thought she looked at each side of each block, or at least she thought she did as she looked at many many sides so it was probably all of them, all she could tell was that the sides were different.
After her brain ‘jumped’ again like it did every time she learned a new word, Chell realized she was supposed to stack the blocks, and that these ones were better than other blocks because they were the ‘real deal’, whatever that meant.
Chell managed to stack one block on the ground on her first try! Stacking a second block on the ground was a failure as it just ended up being one block on the ground somewhere not where the first one was but now that it was on the ground it was the first block on the ground and Chell was just back where she started.
After several attempts at stacking a second block on the ground, Chell sat on her rump to think about what to do, but before she could come to any conclusions, the wall fluffy started making noises again. This time the noise wasn’t very loud and it didn’t scare Chell as much
The wall, however showed a picture of three blocks, but one of the blocks was stacked on another block. Chell jumped to her hooves and brought two blocks together. Of course she can’t put a block on the floor twice, but she can put a block on another block! It was a moment’s work for Chell to stack her first block on another block, and once it was done, the wall fluffy was back and while it was still saying gibberish, this time the gibberish sounded like Chell was being praised. Chell had never been praised before, and sounding like praise was good enough!
Chell did a little babbeh dance, kicking out one front and one back leg, then putting one of them down and picking a different one up. This worked well for one cycle before she picked up both front legs and fell on her face. With her celebration now wrapped up, Chell took a closer look at words on the block she had stacked.
Nope, she still couldn’t read, but it was worth a try.
