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[she_has_a_kid]

[Anyone wandering outside today will notice a goat. This goat has one earring in her ear, and is bleating wildly, running around.]

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[fearthefool]

[...Clopin recognizes this goat.]

Djali! What are you doing out here without La Esmeralda?

[she_has_a_kid]

[Oh great. Clopin. Well, at least she liked this guy.

She runs over, bleating]

Maaah! Meeeeeeeeeeh! Maaaaaaaah!

['I'm looking for her! What else would I be doing?!']

[fearthefool]

[Looks around for some string to harness Djali up with] Let's take you to Esmeralda before you try to ingest something you were never meant to eat.

[she_has_a_kid]

[Trotting after him]

Meeeh-eeeh-eeeh.

['I'm a goat. We're meant to eat everything that looks edible. Like your hat']

[fearthefool]

[Finds some string wrapped around a tree and cuts the knot] Stay right where you are, you little demon. Don't think for an instant I forgot about your habit of nipping at my hat.

[she_has_a_kid]

[Oh, no. No way is Clopin tying her up. She bolts]

[fearthefool]

Now, then, where- [where is goat?]

[There is goat, bleating in fear far in the distance]

Nombril de Belzebuth! Djali, get back here before I am dragged into a debate with one of the talking lions over the value of your life! [Gives chase]

[she_has_a_kid]

Baaaaaa-haaaa!

['Esmeralda'd kill you!'

And Djali is not stopping or slowing down. She has more stamina than he does and she can hide better.

She thinks]

[fearthefool]

[Djali is very right- maybe ten years ago, Clopin could have caught up with Djali just by following her, but he's in no mood to chase her through the Academy.

Instead, he frightens a few Freshman by leaping onto their bench, scales a fence, swings onto someone's balcony and back-flips onto a nearby roof.

From there, he follows Djali carefully]

[she_has_a_kid]

[Djali looks back, but she keeps dodging and weaving and trying to make it hard to follow her. She knows Clopin. For all she knows, he's up a tree somewhere.]

[fearthefool]

[Smart goat! But Clopin is patient enough to wait her out.]

[she_has_a_kid]

[Still no sign of him...doesn't mean anything, the man's got smoke bombs. She starts bleating again, calling for Esmeralda in her goat-y way.

Still trying to lose Clopin]

[fearthefool]

[This is taking way too long. Clopin sprints ahead and scales the building before Djali can reach the intersection... which is full of people]

Someone catch that goat!

and cue Yakkety Sax

[she_has_a_kid]

[...Damn.

Djali picks up the pace and tries to avoid the people grabbing at her, but one finally does, and is smart enough to pick her up from the stomach and keep away from the horns and hooves]

[fearthefool]

[Clopin fakes being flustered and adorably foreign while thanking the man who caught Djali. He loops the rope around her neck and drags her down the street]

Now, to Esmeralda!

[she_has_a_kid]

Meeh-heeh.

['Die.'

As he's dragging her, she's chomping at the rope.]