It wasn't time yet, Ash decided. Sure, he could eat the fruit, and maybe it would cause him to grow even bigger, but then the fruit would be gone, and if Kristofferson told anyone, they might come down to destroy the tree or brick up the wall to the room. No, he thought, the safest thing would be to save the fruit for later and take it home; maybe, there, he could even use it to grow a tree of his own!
Ash stuffed the fruit in his pocket and hurried after Kristofferson, who was already halfway up the ladder. With his new height, he could almost reach the top of the sewer cover standing on the ground. He smiled, feeling good about his body for the first time since he could remember.
As the two foxes pushed the cover open and peered into the daylight, they looked around, making sure there was no humans around. Luckily, this sewer hole was in the middle of a rural street way out in the country, where traffic was very rare to nonexistent. Kristofferson climbed up out of the sewer first, followed by Ash, who found the opening to be a tight but manageable fit.
"Okay," Kristofferson said, his breathing returning to normal. "We're out of the sewers, so we should be a little safer now." He stared up at Ash, whose growing had seemed to have stopped now that he was no longer holding the fruit. "Why did you have to grab the fruit a second time, Ash? Who knows what could've happened?"
Ash smirked, looking down at his now diminutive cousin. "Are you kidding?" he said. "This is the best thing that has happened to me in -- well, ever!" He flexed his new muscles, and, though he was wearing his trademark white suit with cape (which had grown along with him), his new biceps and pectoral muscles could easily be made out through the fabric. In fact, even though it had grown, the suit seemed to be fit a little more smug than before, and a little bit of Ash's stomach was now visible where the shirt was too short to cover it.
"Well," Kristofferson said, clearly uneasy at the prospect but trying to keep his head, "Okay. You can enjoy it for now, but we can't go home until you shrink back to normal."
Ash nodded, seeing the logic there. "Fine," he said, "where do you propose we go?"
Kristofferson thought for a moment, then finally proposed...
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