( closed ) it is only with the heart that one can see clearly

[danserai]

Who: Ahiru + Residents of the Disaster House + Reaper
What: A VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
When: Sometime after Fern's recovery
Where: The Disaster House

Content Warnings: N/A


[ so after much waffling and discussion with fakir, ahiru finally came to the conclusion that she needs to tell her friends the truth. well . . . her house mates at least. she wasn't going to go around blabbing it to everyone. she wasn't quite ready for that.

but if there's one thing this place has taught her, it's not safe to keep her secret all to herself. ahiru needed people in her corner and she believed her house-mates would protect her.

and hopefully . . . not too much will change. she hopes. ]

Uhm, I'm glad you're all here. I have something important to tell you guys. I've been keeping a secret.

Not like a big secret or a dark secret, but more like a secret about me. A personal, kind of weird, don't freak out sort of secret.

Comments

[no_reload]

Considering I've only seen one ballet, I'm certain you could find something to impress with.

[However, he was curious what kind of secret that was so important to tell. She had specifically come to find him after all.]

Precaution. Go on.

[danserai]

[ she fidgets for a moment. ]

Uhm, so I'm not really a girl. I'm actually a duck. The magic turns me into a girl.

[no_reload]

[It took him a moment of just staring at her to process the information. Then he continued to stare as he was convinced that she was pulling a prank on him; had Maul put her up to this for the birthday idiocy?

Of course, the whole lack of birthday conversation would make more sense if she were... a magical duck. That was just... so strange. It was bigger than talking scientist monkeys.]

A duck. [He turned to face her completely and leaned down to be more on her level.] You're a magical duck who becomes a girl.

[danserai]

Well, the magic isn't really mine . . . but uh . . . yes?

I became a girl to help someone I cared about.

[no_reload]

[A spell was cast on a duck, so now the duck was a girl who helped someone she cared about? This definitely sounded like a weird made up story, but she was awful nervous and earnest about it.]

That explains why you don't have a known birthday.

Can you... transition back to a duck on your own, or are you permanently a girl?

[danserai]

I can. If I quack or act like a duck, I turn back into a duck.

It's not very convenient.

[no_reload]

[That was very straight forward.]

And once a duck, if you quack like a girl and act like a girl, you change back?

[danserai]

Girls don't quack, Mr. Reaper.

[no_reload]

Tell that to my cousins.

[He remarked that dryly. Reaper had a lot of cousins.]

So you can turn back to a girl once a duck though?

[danserai]

Yeah. I need water to change back.

[no_reload]

So you need to get wet to become a girl.

[That sounded like it would be... problematic. Maybe he was far less trusting about such requirements than he should be.]

[danserai]

That's how the magic works. Don't ask me why it's like that.

[no_reload]

You're an odd duck.

[He definitely was saying that on purpose. It was an opportunity, and he was going to seize it.]

Does this mean you need a pool in your dance studio when it's built?

[danserai]

[ she shakes her head. ]

I only need a drop of water.

[no_reload]

[Just one drop. This just opened up so many questions. He'd ask, for Moira, for science.]

One drop? Does it have to be pure water or anything with water in it?

[danserai]

I think it can only be water.

But yeah only a drop is needed.

[no_reload]

Have you tried experimenting with other water-based substances?

[danserai]

Not really. I never had time to do any of that. I just worked with the spell.

[no_reload]

It seems to me that you have an opportunity here to understand and push the limitations of the spell. It could save your life.

[She was too nice to use such abilities for sinister means after all.]

[danserai]

Maybe . . . ?

My life isn't really in danger.

[ at least, not from this aspect of the spell. ]

[no_reload]

[Reaper just sighed like she had told him that she hated his cooking. He shook his head.]

You should be prepared for danger, Ahiru. A quick transition back and forth could save your life.

[That was the soldier in him talking.]

[danserai]

How do you be prepared for that?

[ if danger could happen any time, what could she do? hyper alertness isn't really her . . . thing. ]

[no_reload]

Practice and preparation.

[Reaper actually showed her by allowing his body to dissolve to smoke and then reformed in a completely different area nearby.]

[danserai]

[ she gasps. ]

Is that magic? Do you have magic too, Mr. Reaper?

[no_reload]

No, it's my curse.

[Though it definitely came in handy for survival.]

In a dangerous situation, reducing and increasing your size could save your life.