A couple I know who are elves went on vacation, and I'm camping out in their living room--to protect it. You see, I learned that a gang of burglars (mostly elves, a few humans) have been conspiring not just to loot the places they hit but to hire a realtor and sell the homes fast, out from under the real owners!

I'm a friend of the couple, and had a key, so I came over to try to keep the gang out.

But the owners come home early, before the gang shows up. They're baffled to find me house-sitting in their living room. I explain about the gang...

Sigh! Elves really are sexy. I need to look for elf singles.

I do meet one. A friend of theirs, a charming elf-girl, shows me a flowerbed in her side yard that has weird caterpillars. In their larval forms, most eat leaves; but these two weirdos don't seem to eat anything at all yet. Just hatched? Or...?

One's a true caterpillar--even though it's a worm just 5 cm long, its very feline glide (and alertness) makes it obvious it'll metamorphose into a cat.

But another, the same size but with a different gait (stumpier, confident, even arrogant) and coloration (black with a white back-stripe) is clearly a skunkerpillar.

We don't poke that one--just in case the larval form already has that skunk... talent.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Burglars break in while glamorous owners are out, but they return early: in the news, a celebrity couple tweeted "we're off to Hawaii!" Burglars noted that, and broke in! But the couple had come home early; they were there, in bed! Oooops. On both sides...
• Elves: celebrities, then? Those mindful of appearance?
• Elf/human, cat/skunk: fairly similar pairs, but their differences matter.
• ACTION: Mind my appearance, to attract elf-mates. Or at least to bolster my elf-respect! Even basic fashion/grooming's hard for me--I'm autistic, and near-blind to my own appearance; I basically lack a human self-image. But even minor changes (as I see them) may look big to others and get me treated differently.
• Caterpillars, metamorphosis: my life's had sharply delineated stages, quite like a butterfly's; when I solve a big problem in health, creativity, finance, romance, I metamorphose abruptly.
• Skunkerpillar: hmm. So you can guess what someone'll become... does my skunky stripe already show? The skunkerpillar hints my next transformation's about assertion and self-defense. Maybe I can't change my stripes, but still, transforming from a larval skunk into an adult would be nice. Oh, I'd rather be a cool cat--skunkitude won't impress those glamorous elf-girls--but at least cats and mutts won't mess with me. Well... not twice.

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