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Angelo wasn't Angelo, but another Angelo was? The slime didn't understand. There were two Angelos? How could that be? She was told everyone was unique and different, how could there be someone who looks just like another? "Honey Drop does not remember much. Not much memory when little, but Honey Drop remembers a lot of blue on Angelo. Angelo call the second Angelo?" The slime was starting to get nervous all over again. It took every bit of courage to speak to this Angelo, and now she has to talk to another one. She didn't know what to do. She could run if it all gets too much, but what happens then? She would be right back where she started, and maybe feel a little more guilty. But at the same time, she didn't want to be caught. "Can Angelo say to not bring noisy tube?"
 
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So, probably a work thing. Jude had absolutely no idea what the noisy tube was, but considering they were apparently a small slime...

A vacuum? Some kind of specialized vacuum, probably.

"I'll, uh, mention it. Give me a second."

He pulled away from the slime, standing not far from the entrance and pulling out his phone. He didn't take his eyes off the slime--it was still entirely possible that the whole thing was a trap--but nothing in the situation was setting off his danger warnings or anyhting like that.

"Angelo?" He said when he heard the click of the phone, watching the pink slime as he talked.

"I got pulled into a... an abandoned building by someone who wanted to apologize. But it turned out they got the wrong person. They said their name is Honey Drop, and they're a... slime girl? They're pink."

There was a long pause in the conversation as Angelo said something in response.

"No, it doesn't seem like it. No. ...No."

There was a moment's pause, and then Jude described the location, said his goodbyes, and hung up, turning his attention back to Honey Drop.

"He said he's on his way."
 
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As Angelo distanced himself to make the call, Honey Drop could feel her courage drain, and she had the thought of perhaps coming back another day, once she felt brave enough again. By the time Angelo returned to tell her that the other Angelo was coming, she looked like a deflated balloon. "Okay, Honey Drop will wait here, but Honey Drop is scared." The slime glided over to the window close to the entrance and pressed herself up against it, looking for the other Angelo. "If Angelo brings noisy tube, Honey Drop will run. Honey Drop does not like noisy tube."
 
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"I don't think he will," Jude said, trying to sound reassuring as they wanted. "He seemed pretty calm. And he's a nice guy, so you don't have ti worry, alright? They'll get things sorted out."

He hoped, anyway.

They didn't have all that long to wait before a police cruiser pulled up a few warehouses down, and the not-so-small Angelo stepped out, craning his neck around. There was no noisy tube in sight.
 
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Honey Drop put all her trust in this Angelo. He has been nice so far, and now he was helping her meet the Angelo she knew before. Granted that knowledge was more of a traumatic fear. She scanned everything that moved within her field of vision, looking for any signs of Angelo. When she saw a car pull up, and the exact same Angelo from memory appeared, she was struck with the urge to run. She pushed herself away from the window. He didn't seem to have brought anything. The moment he would walk towards the house however, Honey Drop would dash right on over to the smaller Angelo, holding his lower arm like a scared child. "Honey Drop is not brave anymore..." she whimpered. The surface of her body was a little chilly, but given a few seconds for the slime to wrap around Angelo's arm, her internal temperature would be a little closer to lukewarm.
 
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The sudden touch of slime--literal slime--on his arm was enough to make Jude jump, but after a moment he forced himself to relax, bending down slightly to be more on eye level with the slime. They were like... well, a bit like a child, weren't they? Naive. Or maybe even that was being too harsh. Plenty of people didn't like the cops for a whole variety of reasons.

"He won't hurt you," Jude said. "So you don't have to worry, alright? But it sounds like he probably will need to talk to you, and-"

Angelo--the much bigger Angelo--briefly appeared in the window Honey Drop had been looking through, and a moment later the door pushed open.

"Jude?" He called out, and Jude reached up, waving him over.
 
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The slime didn't say anything, but nodded at Angelo's reassuring words. Honey Drop shrunk a little bit when she saw the other Angelo peer in through the window before entering. Her mind briefly wandered to the hole in the floor in the next room. In case something went wrong, she could just run there and disappear. Her own little reassurance seemed to help calm her down. "Do you remember Honey Drop?" she asked the bigger Angelo. "Honey Drop wants to say sorry for being trouble..." The slime watched Angelo with all her senses tuned to him. What was he going to do? Was he going to be as friendly as the smaller Angelo? Does he even remember her? What was he thinking right now? And was he going to try and catch her again? There was no sign of the noisy tube the slime was deathly afraid of, so she felt safer than when she was waiting for him to arrive.
 
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Angelo did absolutely remember Honey Drop, although definitely not by that name, and absolutely not without some prompting. Honey drop, after all, had changed a lot. They looked like a person rather than a blob, for one. For another, they were talking.

Oh boy. This was going to be like a stack and a half of paperwork.

"So, just making sure I got this right," Angelo started, "you mixed us up, called Jude here, and then realized the mistake?"

"More or less," Jude said. "Apparently you came after them with a noisy tube, and they wanted to apologize."

Alright. It was a lot, but... okay. Well, they probably hadn't really been sapient before, but they were sapient now, right?

"You didn't really know what you were doing," Angelo said after a moment, "so I'm not going to hold it against you. Have you... uh, talked to anyone yet? Gotten yourself registered? You're obviously big enough to, uh... well, you could go to school, for one."
 
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The slime was happy that the smaller Angelo explained to the bigger Angelo. While she didn't know what he's said to him over the phone, surely he would have gone over what she had told him, only needing to retell the part about the noisy tube. That was the most important part. "Yes, Honey Drop has a very dear friend," she happily said. But when considering the next question, she was confused. "Register?" She had heard that word before, but why would something that makes a ding sound be important?
 
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A very dear friend. That could mean a lot of things, and for the moment, Angelo put it aside.

"Well, right now you're a thinking, feeling person. You should be registered as a citizen of the island, so that you can have an ID card. Like..."

He glanced up at Jude, who was already producing his ID, holding it out for Honey Drop to see.

"Then you'd be able to go to school," Angelo continued, "where you could learn all sorts of things. It's an important part of life."
 
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