Glace was watching as she saw Marcie plodding through the grass, clearly filled with thoughts. The blonde girl walked over to the kangaroo to ask her what was going on. She'd heard about it before. People wanting to move out of your island after a while. But, there was something in the Resident Representative of Glacespace that swore that it would never happen to her. She had faith that it wouldn't happen to her.

She looked over at Marcie, a tinge of worry taking over the blonde's body. With a heavy heart, Glace walked towards Marcie, the villager she was closest to, the one she'd shared so many happy memories with, the one that was sweetest to her. Worry in her tone, Glace asked her best friend on the island what was wrong. The kangaroo had been deep in thought ever since K.K. Silder's concert.

Glace weighed up whether she should ask Marcie any more questions than she had already asked. Tears were falling from the Resident Representative's eyes as she looked at her favourite villager she had invited so far. Her lip quivered as she heard the words coming from the pink kangaroo's mouth. Biting her lip, Glace listened. She was pondering and she was worried.

"Glace... I wanted to run an idea by you. Do you know the feeling of wanting to experience something new? Go to other islands and meet new people?"

The blonde girl was crying and hugged the kangaroo. She didn't want the kangaroo to go. The kangaroo was her best friend, the one villager the Resident Representative felt she could talk about anything to. And now Marcie was considering to leave the island.

"It's fine, pouches, I don't have to go. I just thought I would run the idea by you."

Tears trickled from the small girl's eyes as she heard her best friend's catchphrase for what she felt was the very last time. Her lip quivered as she let go of the kangaroo.

"I wanted to broaden my horizons. Travel to new places, meet new people. I wouldn't have come here if it weren't for you, but I feel I've seen all that Glacespace has to offer."

Glace's glasses clouded over with tears as she weighed up her options. She could let her favourite villager leave and potentially get forgotten, or she could let the kangaroo stay and prevent her from pursuing her dreams. The blonde girl leant forward for another hug.

"Pouches... I'd never forget you. I swear that we'll meet again, some place, somewhere." The kangaroo began to cry as she hugged the Resident Representative. "Everyone here has been so good to me."

Glace gripped the kangaroo tighter as her mind overflowed with thoughts. With a small sigh and a scrape of her left arm over her face, Glace looked up at the kangaroo.

"If... you want to go... I'm not stopping you..." The blonde girl murmured as she looked the kangaroo in the eyes.

Marcie began to cry and hugged the girl tighter, the two of them sobbing more and more. Her heart was wrenched. This would really ruin Glace if the kangaroo had said she would've been better off somewhere else. The kangaroo held her best friend tighter as she debated what she should do.

Glace held the kangaroo closer and began to sob again. She tore apart from the pink kangaroo and her joey, knowing that she was probably making the both of them uncomfortable. In her mind, the Resident Representative of Glacespace weighed up her options. She looked down at the slightly withered grass below her. She knew she had to make a decision.

"I think... I might have to learn to deal with loss..." the girl choked out in between sobs. "Marcie... you can leave... if you want to."

"Stay strong, Glace. I know you've got this, pouches," the kangaroo soothed softly as she stroked the girl's back.

In her head, Glace was going over old memories as she hugged the kangaroo as tightly as she could. They gave one another gifts every day that they could, watered each other's flowers, and took care of sick friends. They did all this together. And now, her best friend that she felt she'd known for years wanted to go. She squeezed her eyes shut as she thought about all of this.

Biting down on her lip for one final time, she looked the kangaroo dead in the eye. She breathed in and out exactly five tomes before saying anything.

"If it would make you happy to go, I guess I'll let you go," the girl told the kangaroo. "I'm gonna miss you!"

"I'm not leaving just yet, pouches. Tomorrow, I'll pack, and I'll be gone the next day," Marcie told her. "Find someone else that will do a wonderful job of pleasing you in my place."

Hugging the kangaroo goodbye, the Resident Representative couldn't help but shed a tear. She was about to lose her best friend. Hopefully she'd be going to another place as good as, if not better than, Glacespace.

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The eagle glanced at the wolf, seeing that their Queen was deeply sad. "I wonder what Marcie could have possibly said to make our little Queen so sad..." he murmured to himself.

"Mr. Keaton, are you alright?" The wolf cocked her head to the side in curiosity.

"We might need to take... drastic measures. Maybe even stop this plan entirely."

The wolf shook her head with a fervent smile. "We will not give up so easily," she said with extreme determination in her tone. A slightly evil giggle erupted from her mouth and she smiled widely.

"I wonder... if our plan was doomed to fail in the beginning."

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A duck with purple hair in a bob haircut glanced over at the representative for her island with concern. "I wonder what's shaken her so much," she thought aloud. "She's never usually like this."

The goat who lived next door to her joined the duck near the pier. "Something's wrong," Sherb told the duck with a small frown on his face. "Should we... ask her what's going on?"

"That would be best," Gloria told the goat in response.