Mangle walked in a week into meeting the subject with a small tube of bubbles. The subject glanced up from the cot. “‘Angul? New toy?” it asked.660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDXCQ3X4oP
“Sort of,” Mangle said, uncapping the bubble solution and pulling out the wand. “I wanted to show you something.”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjAt5inR8d
It watched with rapt attention as Mangle gently blew on the wand. Bubbles came flowing out, rainbows caught in each and every one. It was enamored. “What’re those?” it asked in excitement.660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrsKCwUS39
“They’re called bubbles,” Mangle explained. They’re made with soap, when it’s moved really quickly and a pocket of air fills it.”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOPSG2TXoo9
“Bubbles make rai’bow!” it exclaimed. “‘Angul make more bubbles?”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRGq4sRQue
Mangle smiled and blew more out. It ran around to touch them, the bubbles pooping in her hands. It pouted. “Bubbles go!” it said morosely, “Where? Why?”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgG1U6ODaIk
“The bubbles are popping, because they don’t handle being touched very well,” Mangle explained. “A lot of the time people like popping bubbles before they hit the ground.” A hand-eye coordination test.660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhF2dQY5mEO
It nodded and put her hands out, as anticipated taking Mangle’s words as a challenge. Mangle blew some bubbles in its direction, and the subject dashed about to pop them. This continued until the bottle was drained and the subject was a heap on the floor, laughing hysterically. Mangle sat back at the desk, nodding. “Hand-eye coordination is as can be expected, then. Want another bottle for yourself?”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡranQAC4nP4
It nodded. Mangle pulled it out and said, “Be careful not to get it in your eyes…”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQcZgoe9JP
It tore the cap off and some of the bubble mix landed right in its eyes. There was a brief second of silence, before it screamed, “My eyes! My eyes!” over and over and over.660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBq1FyDNkbU
Mangle instinctively rushed it to the bathroom and ran cool water over its eyes. It was crying from the pain, but Mangle just stoically stood there and rinsed out its eyes. When it was done whimpering, Mangle took it out from underneath the running water of the sink. “Better?” they asked.660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfb86swD9xi
It nodded. “‘Ankoo, ‘Angul.”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqY5NyelVvS
Mangle shrugged it off. “Think nothing of it.”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHiutXHUqN
To their surprise, it wasn’t just a phrase: they meant it. How odd.660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTz3hyy7GC
“Now, It, this is what is called a potty. This is where grown-ups and older kids pee and poop. They listen to their body, and when they get pressure in their stomach, they know they have to go, and they come here to get rid of it. You just sit on it and then use it like you would a diaper, understand so far?” Mangle was teaching the subject the finer points of toilet training. Specifically, why people used a toilet over a diaper, besides because it was yucky.660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC29yyWGoDG
It nodded at Mangle’s speech. “Unders’and, ‘Angul.”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLNexOAKln
When you’re done going potty, you wipe where the pee and poop come from with toilet paper, which is basically not cold not wet wipes. You put it in the potty with your pee and poop, and then you push down on this lever,” Mangle demonstrated. “And everything gets taken away.”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW22AvIKclF
“No more messy diapers,” It sighed in relief.660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNv4ERS8EhO
Mangle nodded. “That’s right, It. No more messy diapers. Not if you listen to your body and then tell me when you need to go.”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcptxWhFADL
It nodded. “I will, ‘Angul,” It promised.660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzy9u1Kkg7
Now that I’ll believe when I see it, Mangle thought to themself. Outwardly they said, “Thank you, It.”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmr3cBaCXx
It nodded, then frowned. It lifted its hands up. “Lift up?”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFgZbAOi6d
Mangle took off its diaper and put it on the toilet. It sat there and Mangle turned away, uncomfortable. They heard It peeing and when the noise stopped, a small voice asked, “Toilet paper, right?”660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyIXDbd2A9
Mangle nodded and handed it over. It wiped itself and slid off the seat. “Can’t reach the lever,” It said.660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jdEWruKKb
They flushed for It, and both of them went to wash their hands after Mangle put the diaper back on the subject. This was going to take a while.660Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXhBLg6anj
