After reading about how starving fruit flies

After reading about how starving fruit flies and nematodes made them live longer, I decided to try extending the longevity of

my hungry hungry hippos. I pushed all the marbles to the middle and let them stay hungry. "You'll live longer," I said. "I read it online." But as I slept, the hippos

, starving, went on a stampede. The hippos broke their tethers and ate all my shooters, aggies, and cats eyes. Upon waking, I knew I had lost my.. (dare I say it) marbles. (I did.)

(it) (again)...(oops.)

Ellone must have sent us back in time again. Thought bubbles eked through floating space via parenthetical citation. Still, we couldn't change the past. Our receipt was lost for

now, or maybe later, or sometime in the future. We looked around our "new" surroundings carefully. It appeared that Ellone had sent us this "time" to the Bastille, 1789. Ducking

stinking townspeople, I tried desperately to remember my 18th century French lessons. But that class was also around the time I discovered

the link between "fenêtre" and "defenestration". But it was a small town full of petty people and even pettier building regulations, so we didn't even have two-storey buildings exc

dooooooowwwww...Oomf! I didn't even have the chance to finish my thought before I found myself tossed outside the old house. The door slammed & laughter echoed through the night.