A few days later, Faira walked by and blinked. A hole? 'Seems pretty large if they were getting a fossil.' Finding the mound of dirt next to it, she kicked it in the hole, soon stunting the progress of Meine's home. Once the Mew figured it out, she grew a scowl on her face and restarted.
Then at sunset, Linnie was in a tree's branches nearby that wooded area - she was trying to get some furniture stuck up there, why she didn't shake the tree instead was because of her dazed state - and felt herself move, tumbling into a branch on the ground in the process which awoke her. Turns out someone was uprooting the tree. After Linnie rubbed her head and grabbed her hat and the furniture, she noticed some purple cat dig and dig and burrow some more. Since when did cats dig? Whatever. "Hey, whomever you are, don't uproot a tree next time, OK?" If I were you, I'd go and dig in town."
"And you expect me to make my home in town," Meine said, not looking up from the hole. "OK then, you want me to be captured, and would most likely have to go back to a laboratory of idiots. Fine."
"A laboratory?" Linnie became stunned. "OK, you've gotta speak up. After all, if you had to go to a lab, then you'd have to have gotten some disease or disorder or something. What's wrong?"
"I was born cursed, alright?" Meine finally looked up at the silver-haired human. "I don't know who you are, so you don't really HAVE to know."
"Fine then. You know, if you keep your secret within you all the time, you'll blow up eventually. To me, it's like anger. Carbonation is to club soda like anger is to man or whatever the heck you are - it'll eventually run over the top." One of Linnie's parents was a psychologist, but she didn't learn much from said parent but that.
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Meine was close to giving in, but still had some stubborness in having to say her secret. "Fine, I'll tell it to you. I'm a Mew. There, happy now?" She muttered and sped up her talking just for the purpose of having Linnie not be able to hear.
That was definitely true, Linnie was unable to hear Meine. "Erm, hey. Please speak up, that could be helpful."
"I can't really say anything out loud. I'll write a letter to you about it later, most likely. IF I can finish up my house, hint-hint." Her voice suddenly became sweet on the last sentence.
"Lemme get this straight. You wanna live in a hole, rather than a house that has what is needed for survival. O-kay then. Seeya-"
The interruption was Meine, who had seen Linnie start to walk away from the scene and had pulled her pink scarf off of her neck. As the human girl had felt the chill on her sensitive neck, Linnie turned around just to see a certain pinky-purple cat wearing her scarf. "Why did you do that?"
"It's pretty easy, since you decided to run off and I want you to stay," Meine said with a sly smile and a twitch of her tail. "Tell you what. I'll tell you my secret and give back this scarf if you're willing to help build and stay in this place for the night after it is built. Deal?" The syruplike tone stayed in these sentences.
With a roll of her eyes, Linnie sighed. "Fine, but only because mother made that scarf for me."
"Look here, whomever you are, be happy you have parents that you actually know... I don't know my own. Not to mention my friends are nonexistant. And trust me in saying you most likely have at least a few in this much-more-homey-than-some-big-city town. Now please come and help dig." Meine had been using her dirty paws to dig the hole, and was soon surprised at what Linnie pulled out of her pocket. "What's that?"
"Shovel. Why do you not know, you lived in a cave since birth?" Linnie started putting the metal pointed end into the ground and scooped out a chunk of dirt, almost hitting Meine with it, though Meine had teleported to atop the now-uprooted tree in time.
"Sounds like a shovel's meant to toss dirt into someone's face, or at least somewhere."
Time passed for at least a day or two more. Meine and Linnie had been digging deep down to make a big hole, rarely taking a break except to eat and sleep. Faira passed by again, but had seen the two girls - Linnie asleep on her shovel, and some weird-tinted cat with a long bulbous tail tunneling. Considering that that... huh? Would that be a Mew? The Clefairy was very curious now, since the last she remembered, wasn't Mew legendary? Soon, Faira jumped into the tilted tunnel and ran down very quickly, which soon turned into a slide, down to Meine, where Faira squashed herself into Meine's backside. "What's needed, Linnie?" was the Mew's response until she saw Faira by turning her head. "Oh. A Clefairy, eh? Hello. I've to wonder if you tumbled in by mistake, I'm so very sorry..."
"No, but are you.. a...a Mew?" Faira's young-sounding voice was cutting itself to pieces.
"Yes, but please, could you not tell anyone? It's a tough life being me... it's why I'm digging this hole, you understand, right?" With that, Faira nodded and left.
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Meine and Linnie dug the tunnel to the point where there was a giant hole at the end of it, which Meine wanted. "OK, just stay for the night, and you can have your scarf back." "I've got more than a short-term memory..."
The Mew was able to find enough Bells to buy some furniture for the place, while Linnie was sleeping in the hole, against a wall of it. She wasn't allowed to leave, therefore she stayed in the cold, moist dirt cave ("It'll dry out over time," so Meine said). When Linnie awoke, something pink and silky was covering her head... "My scarf!" she mumbled out. "Erm... why's my scarf on my head, anyway?" Linnie continued to say in a daze. "You suddenly don't remember, do you..." Meine had a black-and-gold dress on instead of what she usually worn, sitting in a melon chair with a washer and dryer that were running nearby the chair.
"I think you'd better go, considering that the sunlight's coming in. Heck knows we don't need lost people." "ONE SEC. You also said that you'd tell your secret. Give it, please." Meine soon had an idea. "Give back the scarf. I'll send you the letter with my secret in the next few days. You'll know who it is when you see the scarf inside." "Whattheheck?! You give... oh, forget it," and the human gave back her long piece of hybrid-rose silk and left.
A few days later, Pete came and inserted a package in the mailbox. An envelope with a crudely handwritten note inside marked the box, which had the scarf within. The note read:
((I'm a Mew, a legendary pokemon (or an animal in your terms, think endangered species), meant to be hunted after and cloned for idiotic trainers (among OTHER things). That's the reason for a hole home holse, not a house, to live in.
-Meine))
When Linnie recieved the note, she breathed a sigh of relief, since "At least I won't catch a disease!" but still felt a little guilty. How can one live in a normal house when chased after? Linnie wrote a quick letter back, saying:
I'm sorry. Tell you what; I'll make you one of those leaf covers you always see in the cartoons when one falls into a hole. Will that help you out in your endavor?
A few days later, Linnie made the leaf cover out of leftover fishnet bought from the Able Sisters (so what if it was white?) and some leaves, left over at Meine's little hole of a home.
Both turned out happy when all was said and done; Meine had a house which wasn't really a house, and Linnie got her scarf back.
