Bonus Chapter [Vol.1] – In which Button bonds with Glace right off the bat, and embraces the Dao of the Mushroom.(Part 1)

~~** Interlude | Button **~~

Why is it so boring? Why isn't there anything fun to do? Why doesn't anyone come to take me away?

All Truffle does all day is sleep or be lazy looking at mushrooms, and all Ivory does all day is make things with her bones or drink blue water and be lazy. Ever since I tried going to the shit-pit by myself, I haven't been allowed to leave on my own, even to visit my tricky Husband Ark's cave-hole to go make swirls in the water.

Hm? What's that? I think I hear Ivory talking over in her room. Did someone come to visit? I wonder who it is?

I got up and grabbed the mushroom I left on Truffle's body next to my bone charm when I stopped to drink milkies before taking a nap. She's seriously been sleeping all this time? What a lazy goblin!

Walking over to Ivory's side of the cave, I was surprised to See a really tiny goblin just standing there.

Who was she? Was she a new sister I didn't know about? Was she a tricky goblin or a good goblin?

I suppose there's only one way to find out. Truffle taught me that I can trust people who like mushrooms. So, I walked over to her and offered her the mushroom I had just been enjoying.

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I nodded.

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I nodded again.

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She looked at it for a second before putting it in her mouth. Then I went back into my cave-hole and grabbed another mushroom to eat. When I came back into Ivory's room, I sat down and looked at her closely again.

"Me Button. Your big sister."

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I tilted my head. Glace Grace Grace? That's a long name for a goblin. I think I'll just call her Glace.

"Do you like mushrooms?"

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The little goblin came over to me and sat down in my lap. She wasn't heavy at all. She was also super small. Up until now I have been the smallest goblin among sisters.

"You're a small goblin."

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"No. Button is only allowed to be lazy, sleepy, eat tasty food, and take a shit right now. But I also want to know about other things. Many many things! Does Glace want to know things too?"

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"Button stays in this cave-hole. If you want more mushrooms, come here."

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Who is papa? I looked to the side where Ivory keeps her bones stored and to my surprise saw tricky Husband Ark picking out bones and looking at them just like Ivory does before she makes something. Why was he here!?

"Ah! It's Stupid Husband Ark! Why are you here!? Have you come to trick Button again!?" I yelled at him.

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"Be careful Glace! Even if Husband Ark likes mushrooms, he's stupid! He's tricky! Husband will do things to get you spanked!"

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The little goblin sitting in my lap made glowing lights go swirly-whirly around her tiny hand and tricky Husband Ark got wet as my little sister made her finger go pee right on his face!

Kikiki~! That looks fun! How did she do that? Can I do that? I want to do that too!

"How did you make your finger go pee on Husband?"

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She put her tiny hand together against mine and I felt something strange go moving through my body. The lights went swirly-whirly around both of our hands and then right from between our fingers more pee shot out and got Husband Ark again!

Kikiki~! Take that! Tricky Husband Ark!!

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"Do I need to do it just like that?"

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I felt my feet get warm and wet all of a sudden. Hey! Why did you go pee on me too?

"Ah! You went pee! You are not supposed to do that in a cave-hole or you will get spanked! You're still a little goblin, Since Button is your big sister, I'll take you to the shit-pit and show you where you need to pee!"

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I lifted her up off of my lap and stood up as well, grabbing her hand and taking her through my cave-hole and to the shit-pit nearby. There was no point in telling Ivory, because she just comes along every time I have to go anyway. Since she is a little goblin, she probably needs to know all the stuff I was taught, too.

"The shit-pit is just over here. You might be too little to walk though goblin-home on your own right now, so you'll have to get someone to take you when you need to go. Button got lost when she tried going alone the first time. Goblin-home is very big, so it's easy to get lost if you don't learn where everything is first. Button is still learning, but Truffle is always asleep, and Ivory is always busy, so I don't get a lot of chances."

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"The goblin who made Button. The other goblin you saw earlier is Ivory."

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"Yes. Be careful not to fall in. You might end up getting spanked like I did."

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"No. But Ivory thought Button did, and that's why I got spanked."

I led my little sister inside and showed her the big crack that all pee and shit goes down. I also showed her the secret way of peeing that's easier. Just stand up and go pee. It's way easier than squatting down to go pee. She wasn't going pee like me, even though I was showing her how.

"Why aren't you going pee?"

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"Oh. I didn't think about that."

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"...do you think Button is a dumb mushroom-goblin?"

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"Do you mean that?"

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"Glace won't trick Button later?"

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I gave my little sister a hug.

"We are big-friends now! We teach each other things we know, and we take care of each other!"

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"That's easy! Button already knows all the goblins who live in goblin-home!"

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"Uh… I don't know? Many many? Button isn't good with counting more than her fingers yet."

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"Right. Button will start at the beginning. Prima is the Guardian of the tribe and lives at the front of goblin-home. Then there's Jewel who finds shiny stones, Lily who is a runt just like you, and Doll who lives just past her cave-hole. Then there's Husband Ark and Vera's big big cave-hole. Berry's cave hole comes next, followed by here, the shit-pit. Ivory and the cave-hole Button shares with Truffle is where we just came from. Then it's Pepper's cave-hole, she catches fish and her room smells weird. Crow comes after that, followed by Toy, and then the empty cave hole that belonged to a Beast-talker, but she got killed when the Black-claws attacked her. After that, the last cave-hole belongs to Old One."

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"Diana Artemis lives with Berry. Orchid and Lilac live with Lily. Oh! Button forgot all about her!"

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"Special human-goblin. Heard her name was Stella, but she doesn't want to be called that now."

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"I heard about it from Truffle and Ivory. Husband Ark's Human changed into a goblin a few days after I came out of Truffle. Now she lives at the front of the cave across from Prima."

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"Nobody knows! Not even the Old One, and she knows the most things. Vera was there when it happened, so she might know something, but she doesn't talk much."