When life in the Lands was peaceful with no major rivalries (Pencarl and his family and Dixon and his family are really the only people who live in the Lands Major, with some other nomads in Far Off) the families were actually quite neighborly to each other.
Pencarl and Dixon have a tradition that every math class, they go trampolining in the Void. Far, far below, there lived The Binder.
The Binder was a homework binder that once belonged to the goddess Victoria. When she discovered that there was, in fact, homework in it, she cast it down from the heavens and sent it to the Void. Victoria decreed that both homework and the schedule for the classes that give homework belong in hell.
Ah, for little did she know that the next school year she would require hours upon hours of homework.
Pencarl and Dixon found that trampolining was the best activity for pencils living on opposite sides of the Void. They tried playing cards but quickly discovered that they didn't have arms. Soccer was a complete bust, mostly because they didn't exactly have feet either. The balls would just be nudged into the Void anyways.
Trampolining was the common medium. You take a rope to the bottom, and either bungee jump or lower yourself to the trampoline. They could sit by the edge and talk to each other, or scoot themselves off and take a nice trip to Hell. They played tic-tac-toe by jumping on the classes and trying to get three in a row. It was perfectly safe, or as safe as jumping off a ledge can be.
Unless they forgot their rope.
One day, Pencarl strolled over to the border where V Land met the Void, only to find Dixon clinging to the ledge, about to fall.
"HELP ME, HELP ME!" he cried.
Pencarl hurriedly jumped across the Void and wrapped his hands around his neighbor's wrists. With as much strength as he could muster, he dragged Dixon out of the Void, inch by inch.
Completely exhausted, Pencarl laid on the ground, staring up at the sky. Dixon laid beside him, before getting up, shaking off the dirt, and saying a quick "Thanks!"
He then proceeded to jump off into the darkness. Pencarl was too tired to do anything but stare as Dixon disappeared from his view.
Moments later, a Dixon screaming with joy bounced back up onto the ground of D Land.
Only to be slapped back down into the Void by Pencarl.
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The Holy Pencil Bible
HumorMy friend and I have a running joke in Math that our pencils are beings that live next to each other. As the weeks went past in the class, we made some memorable experiences with these inanimate objects. We decided to write those experiences down he...
