You start towards the hallway, making slow measured paces. The plushies stir as you walk through the room. You can hear a slight tittering as they whisper to each other, undoubtedly about you. A couple of them, a pair of teddy bears begin attempting to stand up, but their rotund and awkward forms seem to be making it difficult, not to mention their short attention spans as the pink one turns an attempt to help the brown one stand ends up turning into a hugging and cuddling session that ends up with them landing back on the floor together. You quicken your pace slightly, realizing that the others may not be so easily distracted.
A quick glance at the floor reveals a plush snake, the grin on its face looks much more predatory then regular versions of the toy you've seen at various carnival game stands around the fair. You narrowly avoid stepping into its coils, forcing you to back away from it. Your heartbeat quickens as you watch the snake uncoil itself. Its great length spreads out across the floor. The beast's head raises and sways side to side, flicking its felt tongue at you as if daring you to try to get past it. The hypnotic motion of the plush snake's head causes you to freeze in your tracks and for a moment you find it difficult to focus on the task of getting through the room. You watch as the thing slithers closer to you, so close that you can feel a slight tickle as the beast's tongue touches your cheek. Abruptly it's mouth is clamped shut by a black furry paw-like hand.
"Oh you don't want to be one of those, sweetie." you hear a sultry female voice whisper into your ear. A warm plush body presses against you from behind, causing you to quickly spin around. Your eyes are greeted white plush fur and not much else until you back away enough to get a look at the creature that saved you. He body is definitely female, which separates her from some of the more androgynous looking creatures in the room, including the snake, which she pulls towards her long enough to get a good grip on it before tossing it on the laughing teddy bears. The bears laugh again and incorporate the snake into their session. The female skunk plush before you stands at least a foot taller than you, and has a voluptuous form. Her belly has a streak of white fur from her chest to her groin and a huge fluffy tail fans out behind her, black with a white stripe down the center. She laugh a little as you examine her, heart still beating from her sudden appearance behind you.
"Drink it all in, sweetie. All this could be yours." she says.
"Uh...no thank you, I'm happy the way I am." you reply.
"Then you definitely want to stop walking backwards." she says. Confused, you turn around and see a large plush lion with his arms outstretch, ready to wrap around you as soon as you backed into him. You let out a surprised yelp and back away, running into the skunk woman again. You watch as the skunk tail wraps protectively around you.
"This one's mine, Leo." she says to the lion. The lion frowns and turns walks past the two of you and towards the lioness you saw earlier.
"Let me go!" you cry out and start to pull away, but the tail closes in around you, and the skunk plush sits down, pulling you forcibly into her lap.
"Calm down. You keep panicking like that and you'll just end up running into someone else's arms." she says. She puts her hand on your chest, her rotund plush paw gently scritching you in an apparent attempt to calm you down. An attempt that apparently works, as it only takes a slight push for her to press the back of your head against her chest. You try to sit up, but the warmth of the soft plush creature's embrace has you too relaxed to put up much of a fight and you're easily pushed right back to where she wants you.
"Now now...sshhhh shhhh...just relax." she says in a gentle, soothing voice.
"If I relax you're gonna plush me or something." you say.
"Honey, I could do that right now anyway. I've got you in exactly the right position for that." she says, her other paw reaching around to rest on your stomach, as if to add weight to her point.
"What do you want?" you ask, fighting the urge to yawn.
"Well, first I want to protect you from those other plushies." she says, resting her chin on the top of your head.
"...and second of all." you ask.