And I can eat as much as I like without feeling fall. I can eat anything. I swallowed the kitchen table and spat it out again, just to prove I could do it. I don't need food, but I eat it anyway. It's nice.

But the best thing about being a cartoon is the fact that I can make myself look the way I want to. Now I can go to school and be good at things. I can run faster than anyone in the class. I can beat the boys at all the sports. And the girls. I can run like a train, and jump higher than the top of my house. I can make myself slim and attractive, and eat as many sweets as I like, and never feel sick - unless I want to. It's marvelous!

And best of all, I have lots of time with Dad. I'm his special project. He wants to study me until he finds a cure for the poison.

I'll make sure he never finds it.