crickets

ETHO: Should we change our name to— to, like—

GRIAN: MEGG?

ETHO: —GGE, since I’m an afterthought always?

GRIAN: AWW…

ETHO: I shouldn’t be coming first, really…

GEM: No, no, you’re EGG. You ignore him, he’s got Mumbo brain!

GRIAN: MUMBO JUST TURNED UP, DUDE!!!

MUMBO: I do feel really…

ETHO: It’s fine.

MUMBO: I do feel really bad.

GRIAN: Mumbo turned up! I don’t even know why he was HERE!!

GEM: You’re going to have to put a mustache on, or something, Etho.

MUMBO: Yeah, I mean Etho’s got, like, the—

ETHO: I think he’s attracted to mustaches, and I gotta get—

GEM: Yeah…

MUMBO: Yeah.

ETHO: —A really thick one.

xB: "And I do come—I do come offer—er, bearing gifts. So..."

Etho: [interested] "Oh, do you?"

xB: "I do."

Etho: [beat, before responding in a low voice] "I like gifts."

[pause as xB watches Etho fly around him in circles]

Etho: "Oooooh, woop! Hello, hello."

xB: "Hello! I-I dunno how you're doin' on this stuff, but..."

[slight pause as xB tosses five full stacks of redstone blocks on the ground]

Etho: [very impressed and delighted laughter] "All right, that's impressive."

xB: [giggling]

Etho: "That's, uhhh... that makes me happy. I gotta admit."