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Jul. 29th, 2009 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Duck has a Plan! A Plan to team up with Mytho and get him away from scary Fakir and then working together they'll get his heart shards back! It's a great, Miss Edel-endorsed Plan and Duck is very proud of it.
The Plan runs into its first snag when Duck realizes that in duck shape (she obviously can't go leave a note in Mytho's locker as a girl!) she'll have some difficulty getting the door to the boy's locker room open. That's okay, though - Maximo comes out while she's waiting, and she can sneak in around the edge of the door as it closes.
The Plan hits its second snag when Mytho's locker turns out also to be closed. Fortunately, Gold Crown Academy's lockers are as flimsy as those at most boarding schools - however rich in magic gold, fairy tales are not known for budgeting a lot of cash for gym repairs - and a couple of firm kicks from a webbed foot send it flying open. Duck deposits her letter inside, hits the locker door closed again, and leans back against it with a sigh of relief . . .
- and then the Plan hits the third snag, as she hears the door starting to open again. No one is supposed to catch her in here! They'll totally think it's weird if they see a duck in the locker room! Hastily, Duck flutters into Mytho's locker and peers out - just in time to see Iguanadon, who is a very sweet kid with very sharp teeth and a taste for poultry, saunter in.
Hopefully he can't smell as well as Crocodellia can . . .
The Plan runs into its first snag when Duck realizes that in duck shape (she obviously can't go leave a note in Mytho's locker as a girl!) she'll have some difficulty getting the door to the boy's locker room open. That's okay, though - Maximo comes out while she's waiting, and she can sneak in around the edge of the door as it closes.
The Plan hits its second snag when Mytho's locker turns out also to be closed. Fortunately, Gold Crown Academy's lockers are as flimsy as those at most boarding schools - however rich in magic gold, fairy tales are not known for budgeting a lot of cash for gym repairs - and a couple of firm kicks from a webbed foot send it flying open. Duck deposits her letter inside, hits the locker door closed again, and leans back against it with a sigh of relief . . .
- and then the Plan hits the third snag, as she hears the door starting to open again. No one is supposed to catch her in here! They'll totally think it's weird if they see a duck in the locker room! Hastily, Duck flutters into Mytho's locker and peers out - just in time to see Iguanadon, who is a very sweet kid with very sharp teeth and a taste for poultry, saunter in.
Hopefully he can't smell as well as Crocodellia can . . .
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Date: 2009-07-30 04:26 am (UTC)Duck looks down and pecks industriously at the bread crumbs. He thinks she's just a duck, right? Who only cares about food? So she'd better make sure he stays thinking that!
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Date: 2009-07-30 04:29 am (UTC)Watching the duck nibble at the bread, Fakir actually laughs. "You sure eat a lot."
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Date: 2009-07-30 04:34 am (UTC)Duck breaks off and scowls up at him - what does he mean, she eats a lot? She's a duck! That's what ducks do! - but the scowl turns to confusion when she sees the smile on his face.
She didn't even know Fakir could smile.
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Date: 2009-07-30 04:41 am (UTC)The words are almost the same ones Fakir usually addresses to Duck: Go away. Don't you dare stay here. The voice in which he says them, however, is relaxed, amused, gentle, and when Fakir turns to go back to his rooms, he's still smiling.
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Date: 2009-07-30 04:52 am (UTC)- and it totally doesn't cancel out all the times that he's been mean and scary and yelled at her and Mytho! "No way," she quacks to herself, "he's definitely a bad guy! I won't be fooled just because the bread was tasty!" She turns up her nose at the last bread chunk - so there! "He was only being nice because he just thought I was a duck!"
And that reminds her that if she tells Mytho everything - like she's been planning, like she's going to - she's going to have to tell him about being a duck, too . . .
Her stomach is feeling weird at the thought. Maybe she wants to eat that last piece of bread after all. Just to settle it.