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FAITH: My grandma's chickens. I fell asleep and I forgot to lock
them in!
NUGGET: Oh no!
FAITH: Oh yes.
(Faith searches behind bushes at ground level for the chickens.
Nugget follows her and helps her look.)
NUGGET: What do they look like?
FAITH: They look like chickens! They have feathers like you, but
smaller. A beak like you, but smaller, and feet just like …
AHHH! You're a chicken!
(She realizes she's talking to a human-sized chicken, then runs and
hides behind a bush. The other chickens emerge.)
SCRAMBLES: Hey! You're the person who's supposed to lock us in at night!
NUGGET: And you didn't! We could have been eaten!
FAITH: Are you my grandma's chickens?
BUTTERCUP: Yup! Meet Nugget and Scrambles. I'm Buttercup! And this is
my little brother, Benedict.
(Benedict also has a party hat on, and bows).
FAITH: You're wearing party hats?
NUGGET: A giant chicken is talking to you and you're focused on the hat?
SCRAMBLES: These are our party clothes!
FAITH: I must be dreaming.
NUGGET: You might be. But if it is a dream, we're free, so I hope you
never wake up!
FAITH: Well, now that I've found you, we can all go home.
BUTTERCUP: Not on your life! We've tasted freedom and we're not going
back. Worms, dirt, flies … it's paradise!
NUGGET: We've never had so much fun in our lives! We're free! It's party
time! We're never going to be caged up again!
FAITH: But the cage isn't to keep you locked in, it's to keep you from
getting harmed.
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