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Skye strides back onto the stage, arranging the dead judge-imposter in a chair. Stepping back, the audience can see he is covered in a black cloth with a rope tied to it, so none of him could be seen. Walking offstage, thumps, bangs, and other various strange noises are heard. Tiptoeing back, she peeks around the curtain and is greeted by many curious and frightened looks from the audience.
Smiling broadly, Skye slowly moves forward across the stage. Behind her trails a line of toy ducks, making squeaky quacking noises and flipping their rotating feet against the stage. Painted in Rainbow hued letters on the ducks' sides, one letter per duck, is the word B-U-M-P.
Halfway across the stage Skye turns and takes a flourishing bow, pulling on a velvet cord-which appeared out of nowhere- at the same time. The black sheet covering the dead body lifts up, revealing the judge to be balancing the unused pineapple on his head and his mouth distorted into a cocky grin. Gripped in his cold hands is a sign with the word "Applause" drippily painted in red and gold upon its surface.
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