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3:53:15 pm
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You find Candy near the drink table, scribbling into a little spiral notebook balanced on a plate of cupcakes.
CANDY: "It's not weird. Lots of people take notes at parties. For flavor profiles. For fun. For... science."
EGGY: "Sure. For science."
Candy offers you a cupcake with glittery frosting and an expectant look.
Candy flips to a page titled "Recurrences?" and taps her pen against a doodle of a chicken in sunglasses.
CANDY: "I keep seeing this guy walk by. Same sunglasses. Same chip in his beak. Same exact laugh."
CANDY: "Could be a coincidence. Could be a loop. Could be party magic."
She shrugs and grins. "Either way, I'm charting it. Maybe Swirl saw something too. They’ve been camped near the balloons all night. Haven’t moved once."
Candy beams and launches into a description of how she learned to swirl the two-toned glitter glaze just right.
You nod along. The cupcake really is good.