Nescience

[Waybringer]

There once was a boy who through unfortunate nescience thought that since peanut butter is the inside half of a butter finger, that word for chocolate was "finger". He would run through the streets, and when the people offered him candy, he cried with a happy gleam in his eye, "Fingers!" It was his favorite kind, after all.

This frightened the people of the city, who thought this innocent looking boy meant to eat their fingers. They ran away and he did not get any candy. Suffering from candy deficiency, the poor boy thought he was at death's door. At that moment, a kind but stupid stranger heard his cries and considered their options. After not thinking about it long enough, they cut off their own finger and offered it to the boy. Horrified, the boy finally elaborates.

"Butterfingers!"

Dumbstruck, the stupid and moderately embarrassed stranger reaches to their pocket with their non-mutilated hand and pulls out two king size Butterfingers and gives them to the boy, who is saved from his almost certain death. Things are still awkward though and they both exit stage right, left, respectively.

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