COURTNEY CRAIG HARU_SONG HEART_OF_FOREST JP KELSEY MAYA OMAR STACKS TABITHA WILDERNESSA XAVIER CRAIG previously on “craig of the creek!” TABITHA come now, children, and gather ‘round! for in these cards, your futures will be found! KELSEY hold up! craig is dating wildrenessa?! JP hello, i am the manager! JP omar! niiiice! KELSEY you wanna be my date for herklefest? STACKS okay!!! CRAIG wait… w-were not friends in the future??? CRAIG whoa… the heart of the forest is like a magic wishing well! OMAR before he left the creek, kenneth drew a map to the heart of the forest on a puzzle cube and scattered the pieces far and wide. CRAIG you think the heart of the forest has the power to keep you from losing your friends? XAVIER the last puzzle cube standing between me and the heart of the forest and maya has it! MAYA CRAIG oh man! i think that’s it! after all this searching! the last piece of kenneth’s puzzle cu—uuuugh! it’s just another block-o block! CRAIG how’s the search goin’, y’all? OMAR it’s goin’… KELSEY ugh, my back! lemme see here… nope! nothing! nada! JP uhh, my back as well… nope. nothing. nada. KELSEY ugh, jp, i already checked that one! JP yeah, i know! have you never heard of peer review? KELSEY lemme check it again then! JP ever-- KELSEY give, give that to me! JP okay. alright, here ya go. KELSEY yeah! nada! JP feel like a triple check is a little overkill, but alright. KELSEY ugh. craig, how much more of the creek do we gotta search? CRAIG well the last puzzle cube could’ve floated anywhere, thanks to maya chucking it into the creek. CRAIG so far, we covered every stream, brook and tributary on the other side of the creek all the way down to the overpass, which only leaves us with about… the whole rest of the creek to search. OMAR yooo, this is gonna take forever. maybe we should take a break? KELSEY yeah, mortimor’s tummy has been growling for hours. he needs a snack. JP yeah, and i didn’t wanna say anything, but something’s been nibblin’ at my toes for, like, a while and i should probably check and see if they’re still there. CRAIG no! we can’t stop now! i refuse to let xavier become king again just cuz i’m a little tired or hungry or my toes are being eaten! CRAIG the creek needs us! and if i’m wrong, then let the creek strike me down where i stand! JP aaaaahh!!! OMAR aaaaahh!!! KELSEY aaaaahh!!! CRAIG aaaaahh!!! CRAIG wait! come back! CRAIG ohh gotta find that cube! has the creek always had this much water?! CRAIG alright, yeah, message received, creek. i’m out. CRAIG what am i supposed to do now? CRAIG tinker with my bring out your beast deck? no! finish my homework? absolutely not! watch the haru dvd box set? containing the complete twenty-six episode tv series, the two theatrical movies and those soda commercials the characters appeared in to promote the theatrical movies? CRAIG ehh, got nothin’ better to do. HEART OF FOREST as the heart of the forest, my heart’s desire is to fulfill your own. HEART OF FOREST i am bound to honor the choices of those who have made a sacrifice for my power, whether they be for good… or for evil. CRAIG mmmmm… huh? TABITHA COURTNEY hey, craig. CRAIG the witches of the creek?! TABITHA come now, children, and gather ‘round! for in these cards your future will be found! CRAIG no! i don’t wanna see the future again! ah! CRAIG uh… i’m… i’m older! omar… jp… kelsey… this can’t be true! are we really not friends in the future?! TABITHA it is not the cards’ job to coddle and soothe ye’. COURTNEY for that, we suggest you try a smoothie! CRAIG i didn’t order a— whaaaaaaaaagh!!! CRAIG aaaaaaahhhh!!! somebody! help! help me! CRAIG kenneth!? CRAIG do you think the heart of the forest has the power to keep me from losing my friends? CRAIG what? what does that mean?! and how are you using that hand to flash a peace sign if that’s the hand that’s— aaaaaahhh!!!! CRAIG waah—oof! HARU SONG sekai o toku ni miwatashite jinsei o sugoseru maho no shunkan o sagasu tame boku dake no tokubetsu na basho CRAIG uuugh… CRAIG the sun’s back out? i gotta find that last cube! STACKS what?! ready? what?!?! KELSEY what?! yeah! what?!?! CRAIG kelsey! kelsey! KELSEY oh. hey craig. CRAIG sooo… it’s not raining anymore… let’s get back to the creek and find that last cube! KELSEY oh, um, okay, yeah, so like… maybe later? cuz, uh, me and stacks haven’t had time to hang lately with all the heart of the forest stuff going on… STACKS we’ve been waiting to read the latest book in ythrith of scriggith series. y’know, to experience the magic together. CRAIG huh. i thought that book series ended. KELSEY it did. this is the sequel series about ythrith’s daughter, kythmith of scriggith. STACKS and his traitorous son, blthrith of vthggith. CRAIG oookay, i see. CRAIG well, i guess a little break never hurt nobody. KELSEY okay, see ya later-- CRAIG oops! watch yer back! sorry! KELSEY craig! what are you do-- CRAIG alright, let’s go! jumpin’ in with chapter seventeen! it’s a great way to start! STACKS uh… this is a little uncomfortable, craig. CRAIG you’re right. how about i just lay down and you both read to me. STACKS well, at least craig is comfortable. CRAIG yes, i am, stacks. yes, i am. y’all should spread out, too. i mean, why are you laying so close to each other anyway? KELSEY craig, can i, uh, talk to you for a sec? KELSEY okay, okay, um… so, me and stacks are together, right? CRAIG right. KELSEY and sometimes we want to do things, just us. CRAIG totally. KELSEY and it’s different when it’s the three of us versus just the two of us, y’know? CRAIG ohhhhhh. CRAIG hey, stacks… y’know, me and kelsey just got real deep, and y’know, what it came down to is… you need to leave. STACKS what? KELSEY no, craig! you need to leave so we can finish our book in peace! us! together! without you! CRAIG CRAIG CRAIG a-a-and they wanted to be… alone! like, without me! can you believe that? like, what!? um… jp, who are you textin’? JP oh! uh… it’s just omar. CRAIG omar? i didn’t realize the group chat was popping off… CRAIG huh, looks like i’m not getting any messages? did you change your wifi password or… JP oh… uh, this isn’t the group chat, this is just me and omar. CRAIG i didn’t know you guys texted one on one. JP oh, yeah. it started cuz we were talking about that show “cheese champions.” CRAIG why didn’t you include me? JP uh, i dunno, because we can’t bring up “cheese champions” around you without you ranting for like five minutes about how much you hate it. CRAIG oh, well yeah… cuz it’s ridiculous! i mean, they’re cheeses cooking cheese! okay? the characters are all talking cheeses who are competing to see who can cook the best cheese! have you thought about the implications of that? okay? who thought that it would be cool to go in a room, write a script, pitch this, and get it made! CRAIG who produced this?! who greenlit this?! who wrote this?! who is watching this?!? CRAIG all you see is cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese! the problem nowadays -- we have so much dairy, we’re just gonna throw it on the tv’s… for our kids to see?! JP guess who’s going on the cheese rant again? CRAIG jp! i can hear you! JP sorry. CRAIG how long has this been going on anyway? JP uh… since episode thirty-six. ooh here, check it out! there’s not much to see, just like a lotta gouda memes, of course. do ya get it? “good-a.” like good? plus, some lore talk and some fan theories. and then, just like a poem we wrote together about our favorite cheeses. it goes, uh… cheddars and swisses and quessos and bries! jacks and bleus, el fresco, yes please! CRAIG JP craig? CRAIG huh? JP uhhh… you okay, craig? CRAIG JP craig! you took my phone! CRAIG so they’ve been texting for months without me and-- hey! WILDERNESSA CRAIG y’know, they wouldn’t even know each other if it wasn’t for me! i just wish i got an invitation to talk about “cheese champions!” WILDERNESSA is that the show where the cheeses cook cheese? CRAIG yes! and it’s nonsense… in season 2, the cheeses start fighting each other! WILDERNESSA so weird. like, who came up with that show? CRAIG right? WILDERNESSA and then who drew it? CRAIG exactly! WILDERNESSA and who put it on tv? CRAIG thank you! CRAIG you know, at this point the only time i don’t feel left out is when i’m talking to you. you— you just… you get me. CRAIG oh no! that is how it happens! WILDERNESSA how what happens? CRAIG well… first, you get me, and i get you, and then we’re going out! WILDERNESSA whaaat? CRAIG and then… there’s a concert, and you can’t make it because you’re tying yourself to a tree to stop land developers… and i’ve lost all my friends! WILDERNESSA craig… CRAIG uh, thanks for listening… uh, look, you’re cool. and i want you to be cool. and i want us to be cool together. but i also wanna keep being cool with the people i’ve always been cool with! and so that means i gotta go! WILDERNESSA cheesesticks! he said “i want us to be cool… together!” CRAIG uhh! not here… not here… not here… where! is! the! cube?! XAVIER i already checked those. CRAIG xavier?! CRAIG it kinda hurts holding your eyes like this, huh? XAVIER y-y-yeah. you lookin’ for the last cube too? CRAIG yeah… but the creek is so big… it feels impossible. XAVIER yeah. maybe it is for just one kid… but not for two? XAVIER um… truce? CRAIG [Type text]0[Type text]0[Type text]