Susie and Bonnie say goodbye

Susie and Bonnie stood on the carnival's main stage, in front of a sea of people. Susie hadn't realised the carnival had this many workers! But since it actually existed half in the dream realm and half across a thousand material dimensions at once, she supposed she shouldn't be surprised.

She saw clowns, harlequins, jugglers, magicians, tattooed strongwomen and ride assistants in greasy shirts. Beautiful Oriental-looking harem dancers. A man in a blue suit and top hat, covered in little yellow lightning bolts. A lion tamer in a slouch hat, a snake charmer in a turban, a troupe of ballerinas in tutus and thousands more performers of every possible type, all smiling up at her. She smiled back, hesitantly, and gave them a little wave.

Trapp took a step back.

"Three cheers from Bonnie and Susie," he hollered, from his position at the side of the stage. "Hip, hip..."

"Hooray!" the crowd roared. Susie glanced at Bonnie, and smiled wider, seeing the same sense of satisfaction on the red-headed tomboy's face. After all they'd been through, it was nice to feel respected for a change.

"Hip, hip..."

"Hooray!"

"Hip... hip..."

"HOORAY!" the crowd roared, as all of Susie and Bonnie's clothing transformed into soap bubbles. The two girls shrieked in outraged horror and clasped their hands to their bare bodies in perfect ENF poses, twin blushes springing to their cheeks as the theater shook with laughter, cheers and thunderous applause.

"You're not getting off that easy, girls!" laughed Trapp, as the two mortified, naked best friends made a beeline for the closest exit, and the long nude sprint home. "Better luck next year!"