#processingtheants

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"... No." Straightforward answer, at least. (Investing in what way? He didn't care to know. There was no way those objects could be useful to his justice.)

What were they doing out here, after dark? Alone, no less? It was the first thought that ran through his mind when he saw the child - he wasn’t supposed to be out this late, let alone in this part of town. No one should ever leave any child alone, especially one this small. 

The reasoning why was proven only moments later. A man stumbled out of an alley, loud and clumsy, reaching for the kid with the same gracelessness he held his half-empty bottle. The intentions weren’t clear, whether the man was just drunkenly stumbling around or whether he had a thought in mind, but it hardly mattered. The Grabber was on him in an instant; he had plans to do, but this… he couldn't allow it. 

Not with one of his kids. 

The drunk man yelped only a few seconds later, scrambling off into the night after a firm shove sent him sprawling. By the time the kid was able to look, it would just be The Grabber; tall and strange, mask still on his face. 

He knew the kid too well to think that the mask would bother them. Arthur inhaled softly, tilting his head in that quiet, curious way; the same he did when trying to decide the reasoning behind which crayon they would have picked in the office. 

“You shouldn’t be out here,” he said at last, his voice low but not unkind. “… You should go home. Alright? Do you know how to get home?” 

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Khonshu nearly growls. "That is a puppet, you fool. It has no skeleton."

"Well yeah, it wouldn't after you took it."

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"I never peck people," Khonshu enunciated each syllable like every single one had offended him personally. "That behavior is beneath me. Who told you such a thing!?"

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I finally got it!!!! The answer is 39067 I'm so smart clap for me

//i didn't do 15 minutes of research for nothing. Ok um i searched up numbers associatied wit Bes the God of children something like that and i got nothing buy i found that they were associated with a lion mask so then i searched ho numbers associatied wit lions. And i got nothing so i just answered the rough amount of lions there are. And 67 676767676767

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Arthur sighs. "I'm five feet and eleven inches," he answers. "Or about one-hundred-eighty centimeters. We should work on your math skills, though - we'll start with counting. Can you count to ten, for me?"

He can probably find some tutoring papers, if he looks around - if he can assess how much they know, he can probably work it through. "Start at one, please."

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─── ⋆⋅𓍝⋅⋆ ───────────────── "We'll call it a treat, tonight," Arthur answered, if only to keep the little bug from staying longer than necessary. He didn't actually have candies- but he dropped something into the little thing's bag. A stone, perhaps - or something similar in size, weight.

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