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Chapter 4 by Pingu Pingu

What's next?

Dove finds a place with people in this strange world

Dove was seriously confused as she walked down the sidewalk. Some cars were buzzing by but there was nobody on the streets. Everything looked so weird. The lights from the streetlamps were forming light cones, which were clearly visible and the cars had all weird proportions, looking as if a bunch of clowns would soon burst out of one of them.

It was late and most of the stores and places had closed. Suddenly she could hear some sirens and a moment later a car came around a corner. She couldn't believe how funny it looked. The car seemed to stop on the turn, sliding with a loud SCRETCH around it and the cloud of dust created by the sudden change of direction was hanging in the thin air for a moment, just for two police cars burst through it.

Dove watched them race away and then she spotted some place which seemed open. As she came closer, she noticed that it was a small bar, not very well visited but there were some patrons inside. Through the window she could see three man playing cards, two of them smoking. She noticed how the puffs of cigarette smoke they were exhaling looked like small, drawn clouds, completely opaque.

For a moment she hesitated but then stepped inside. The bartender noticed her and waved her over.

"What does a cute young lady do in my bar this late at night?"

"I ... I don't know ...," Dove said and sat down on the bar.

"Want something to drink?" the man said and started to work as she nodded briefly.

"I woke up at the studio, further down the road," she explained as he placed a small cocktail in front of her."

"The old music studio?" the bartender said, visible surprised. "What were you doing there? That place closed down decades ago. Had some fun time with a boy or so?" He winked and for a moment was complentating if she should react. But she filed it under a dirty joke and took a sip of the cocktail.

"I don't know ...," she said again. "I have no idea where I am. This all looks so weird."

"Huh," the bartender said and looked a bit confused. "You in CapitalCity, capital of Toontopia."

"Toontopia?"

The bartender laughted and the other patrons turned their heads. "This girl is really funny," he called into the room. "She really pretends that she not knows where she is." The whole bar laughted and then everyone went back to what he was doing. Dove rembered that she had her phone with her and as she pulled it out, she had to notice that it was showing no avaible cell service.

"Damn," she mumbled.

"You seem to be a bit unhappy," the bartender said. "Something wrong?"

"Well, seems I have no cell reception here and without my phone I have no numbers to call."

"Well, is late already," he said and leaned over the bar. "I could offer you one of the rooms upstairs for the night. Just ten Toons and it even has its own small bathroom and shower."

"Oh ...," Dove said. She wasn't sure if she should really stay in a room above a bar in a place of which she had no idea what was going on. But it sounded like an option. She pulled her wallet out and noticed that she had no money with her. "You take cards?" she asked.

"Only from First Bank Of Toontopia," he said and took a glimpse of her wallet. "Neither of this cards look colorful enough to be one of them."

"Shit," Dove mumbled.

"So you out of money," he said and looked along her. "Well, I have an suggestion for you."

What does he suggest?

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