The next morning
Yoonseo: Erin! Erin! Wake up!
Erin: (Groaning) Why, Yoonseo?
Yoonseo: (Panicky) Chris and Professor Melody have gone missing! Yoonseo is tugging tufts of hair out from her head, and running here and there in absolute panic-mode.
Erin: Yoonseo, did you check every single place in the house?
Yoonseo: No, but still checked their nests-I mean beds-and they were gone! Not a trace of them!
Erin: OK, Yoonseo, calm down, they’re probably in the garden or elsewhere…
Yoonseo: NO! How can any person calm down when both of them has disappeared-
Chris: Hey Yoonseo! Erin! Come and see what me and Professor M. found!
Erin: (Eye roll)
Yoonseo: (Face flushes, as she dashes out of the room with Chris)
Erin: So what is the “thing” Chris?
Chris: We found a gemstone!
Yoonseo: *Yawn*
Erin: Um, Chris, maybe you woke up a bit too early. Obviously you are hallucinating. NOW will you let us go back to sleep?
Chris: It’s real! (Outraged) (Pulls out a shining emerald gemstone) Now, do you believe the theory?
Professor Melody: We still can’t figure out how to use it! Will you help us?
Yoonseo: Okay! Maybe, let's say, press it on the ground?
Erin: There's nothing else we can do, so let's do that!
We decide to press it on the ground, (mainly because there's nothing else we can do), and let the gemstone down on the soil. Nothing happens. Of course! No gemstone works on the ground! Even it's beauty will disappear then. Obviously nothing is going to happen. And even if something does, it's not going to be particularly as amazing as any other thing we've seen here. Right?
... Wrong.
(Thanks to all who read this! And also, special thanks to Savina for using ME in her wonderful story!)
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