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Emotion 365: The Airship Deja Vu flies over Horrified

The animals inside the Airship Deja Vu drink champagne while the land below them burns. They laugh about their “champagne problems” while musing on the scorched earth. They see the little traveler with zir’s tiny backpack crossing blackened streams and stumbling over fallen trees as zir make’s zir’s way back and forth sometimes nearing the border but other times losing zir’s way. The airship flies through the Mist Apathetic. Some lean out through the windows and shout, “This way! That!” attempting to guide the traveler, but they are too high up to be heard. The traveler, looking up, sees a dark ship blotting out the red sun surrounded by a haze of smoke.

Sometimes the animals on board the airship get lost in the dining rooms, lounges, and parlors and can’t make it back to the sleeping quarters. Sometimes they forget to disembark at their destination and continue on back and forth over Horrified extending their trip. They have drunk too much champagne and become giddy whilst making witty banter with the most engaging new friends whose names they cannot quite remember.

“Which port have we arrived at?” they yell when they notice the ship’s stillness.

“This one,” the porter cries. Inevitably, the wrong one.

“Why gracious me! I’ve done it again! I meant to disembark on the other side!” the passenger exclaims.

The room erupts in joyous laughter at this common misfortune.

"Why you must have another glass and continue to talk with us!"

The ship turns around and the company departs once more.

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