"She's the Queen."

"I know that, Marcie. But she can't know."

"We need a tribute and she's perfect for the job."

"Understood. She's resident representative as well, is she not?"

"You're quite right, Keaton. I respect your input. It is much appreciated. But Glace mustn't know of the plan. She isn't even aware of Nook's greed, so proceeding with undue haste would not be the best of ideas."

"It is understandable, Marcie. Proceeding with haste will only act suspicion onto her."

"Glace, over here! Come here, bawww! I want to talk!" a faint voice shouted.

"I must be off. See you soon. We shall discuss this in due time."

The kangaroo and the eagle both nodded, bidding each other farewell for the day and leaving a small blue goat to talk to their Queen.

"Bawww, what's wrong?" the goat asked the girl.

She just shook her head. "Nothing's wrong. It's just stressful, being resident representative and all. I get charged with so many duties to deal with loan payments. On top of that, there's the fact that I have loan payments. I can't deal with all the stress."

"Why don't we talk about this over some snacks, bawww? What's your favourite snack?"

"I thought I had already told you, Sherb! It's marshmallows," she laughed. "Thanks for giving me that raincoat yesterday."

"No problem. I can't help it! You gave me a gift so I had to give you one in return!"

Sighing, the girl brushed herself down. "See you at your house, then. I'll catch bugs whilst you're shopping for marshmallows," she told the goat.

Sherb nodded swiftly. "Okay, Glace! I'll meet you there!"

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"So... what's the plan? How are we to overthrow him?"

"Don't you think we're moving too fast with this plan? You said it yourself, Marcie! We shan't move with undue haste! This is why we haven't let Stinky or Flora about this plan of ours. Haste will only incite suspicion!"

"I'm well aware of that, Keaton. But we can't run the risk of moving too slow. It might already be too late."

A faint nod from the eagle. "What do you think, Phoebe? You're one of the first islanders, so you must have some insight for us."

A yellow ostrich sighed, looking down. "I'll talk to Glace," she told the group. "Act as I normally do."

The kangaroo and eagle gave Phoebe a faint nod of approval.

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I caught a Monarch Butterfly!
Guess the butterflies are a democracy now!

Glace stuffed the monarch butterfly that she just caught into her pockets. She told herself just to catch one but she had ended up catching five. Anything to make money and pass the time. She was catching these bugs and had been running outside of Sherb's house where she had caught the majority of them.

Right in front of her face, there was a damselfly.

She ran after it with her net in hand and, sneaking up on it, caught it easily.

I caught a damselfly!
Now it's a damselfly in distress!

She chuckled at the note and put the bug in her pocket. She walked back towards Sherb's place and waited on a stone stool for him to come by. There were a couple butterflies in front of her. It was so tempting to just catch them. Then there was a rice grasshopper.

She got off the stool and ran after the bug.

I caught a rice grasshopper!
I was looking for a gluten free alternative...

She placed the bug in the pocket of her fall dress that Phoebe had given her. She loved that dress so much. Phoebe had great taste in fashion.

She then caught a paper kite butterfly and stuffed it in her pockets, promptly going back to Sherb's house.

"I'm back, bawww!" the blue goat called out, warming up in his sweater. "I've even got some snacks for us to share!" He looked over at the blonde haired girl for a second. "Did you catch any cool bugs, bawww?"

Glace shook her head. "I mean, I caught a paper kite butterfly! I guess that's cool... but I was hunting other bugs," she said in a low tone, feeling disheartened.

"Glace, it's fine! I'm sure you're gonna catch an ultra-cool bug sometime! I mean, the bug friend you caught me a day ago is so adorable! You wouldn't even imagine..." Sherb shook himself out of his trance. "Anyway, I got some lovely marshmallows for you! I also got some liquorice! We can talk about stress over these cool snacks!"

She giggled a bit at the small goat's excitement. "Thank you, Sherb! I really appreciate it."

He led her in with a big smile on his face.

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"Marcie, how's progress going?"

"I'm watering her garden for her whilst she is hanging out with that little goat friend of hers. I really appreciate her company and gifts, so I'll talk to her once she's back on this side of the island."

Keaton nodded curtly at the kangaroo's response.

"I have a question, Mr. Keaton."

"What is your question, Phoebe?"

"How long are we going to avoid telling the Queen about this for? I feel annoyed that we have to leave her in the dark about this."

"We're doing this in her best interest!" Keaton reminded the yellow ostrich. "Don't you want to give something back to our wonderful Queen?"

"I know that she is stressed, Mr. Keaton. But I just don't want to leave her in the dark," Phoebe repeated, worry in her tone.

"We will let het know... eventually. But undue haste is our enemy. You must remember that, Phoebe. The reason we are carrying out this plan is to give our Queen everything she could ever want. Understood?"

"Yes, Mr Keaton."
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"So... what's bothering you?" Sherb asked her when they were both sat down.

Glace stared at the goat through brown eyes. Grabbing a marshmallow from the bowl, she told him, "It's paying the loans. There's just so much to pay and so many distractions from paying them."