A war was going on. We had holed ourselves up in a house by the lake where we hoped the enemy would never reach us. Me and my cousins were looking out a window, keeping a lookout.
We saw lots of people outside--some suspicious, some not. There were a bunch of prostitute-like women who went into a house and came out dressed as geishas. We figured they were probably evil. A man wearing a top hat and using a fancy cane walked by. We figured he was evil too.
And just to confirm our guess, he turned towards the window and laughed maniacally. We all ducked as the man reached in through the window, winked at me, pushed a button on my face, and stole some sort of key out of my eye.
My aunt was worried--that was a very special key.
She warned me: stay inside. You've got a ticking time bomb inside--2 more hits from the enemy, and we could all die. I hid under a table, waiting for a) the thing to be removed from me and b) the war to end.
I went out fishing in the lake. I could relax that way and not worry about all the fighting. My cousins came with me and we sat on a boat that had a large pool in the middle where we could put all the fish that we captured.
The boat was so full of fish, though, that a lot of the fish that we were capturing were weighing down the boat and submerging it enough that they fish could just swim in and out. We weren't keeping anything.
I got nervous. A couple of sharks kept swimming in and out and I was getting ready to feel my legs get chopped off. I told my cousins we had to go back to the pier and they all agreed. I set the course and hid inside the boat's cabin in the meantime.
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