Poppet || l.s.

chapter 8

CONTINUED . . .

"That was the Golden Planet. Home of the secret poppets."

"Was that here? On earth?"

"What?" Harry giggled. "No silly, that's on the Golden Planet. Somewhere else." He waved his hands around the air showing that it was not from this planet. "Somewhere far away in a different universe where all the poppets live!"

Sansonav nodded, understanding but also very curious. "And who was the little boy?"

"Oh that was Louis. Sometimes if I think really hard, he'll be there but it's not really him. It's my imagination. I think."

"Okay. Well, let's start our next test, yeah?" Sansonav pulled out these weird black gloves that were so small, you could lose them in a second. He instructed Harry to put them onto his hands and sit still.

These gloves were for a sort of x-ray made specifically for poppets. Only, instead of looking at your bones, it was to see the energy flowing through your hands. It only worked on poppets, obviously, if you tried it on a human, well first of all they'd be too small but nothing would show up either because only poppets have this sort of 'energy' running through their body.

As Harry sat still with his hands now on a table in front of him. Sansonav brought a big camera, looking machine and faced it down onto Harry's hands.

"Is this gonna hurt?" Harry asked as he looked up at Sansonav.

"Not at all. You won't feel a thing." Sansonav reassured. Herrera turned on the machine and it made very loud clicking sounds. She turned off the machine and went to check the pictures while Sansonav removed the gloves from Harry's hands.

"That was kind of cool." Harry said as he shuffled his feet and looked at his hands as if they were made of gold.

"You want to see the pictures?" Sansonav asked with a smile.

"Yes please!"

Sansonav went to Herrera and she handed him the now printed pictures of Harry's hand. He walked back out and kneeled down so that he would meet Harry's level. He laid out the pictures and pointed at one of them.

"See all these lines going through your hands? And this little burst of light right here?" Harry nodded and Sansonav continued. "Those are your powers. You're young, so they're all running around trying to have fun because you don't know how to control them just yet."

"I don't?" Harry frowned and looked down at his hands.

"Not exactly. You're actually very well controlled for such a young age but there's still a lot for you to learn."

"How do I learn? I want to learn to be better."

"Practice. It's all practice."

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*a few days later*

"Harry! Stop it!" Louis laughed as Harry tickled him. "P-please I'm gonna pee my pants!"

"No! Not until you say I'm the best poppet in the world!" Harry continued to fly around Louis' body and tickle him everywhere.

"Y-you're the b-b-b-eeeesst po-ahh! Poppet! Poppet i-in the worl-orld!"

"No! Not the world." Harry flew over to Louis' most ticklish spot on his body, his ears. Yes, you heard that right, ears. "In the universe!"

Louis was laughing so hard and squirming around so much that he accidentally hit Harry and he flew so far, he hit the dresser.