"What are you doing? Trying to get rid of a worm?" Annie asked, though she couldn't see any worm. It was an unusual sight to see someone carrying a stick in London, and even weirder to see that someone talking to it. As observant and smart as she was, her only explanation was that this person was (1) trying to get something off the stick, or (2) they were a troubled person. Of course, that then begged the question as to why they were carrying a stick to begin with, and... well, she digressed.

"You might as well smack it against the wall. I'm not sure you're doing any good," she added with a tsk tsk as she nosily tried to get a better look at the (carved?) stick.

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