Ten little hatchlings maneuver a garden cart into the Nexus. It's loaded down with tubs of strawberries and raspberries, jars of raspberry and strawberry jam, raspberry and strawberry shortbread cookies, and of course those softball shaped vanilla cakes
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She looks familiar to them, but so far none of them have quite placed why. A few of the hatchlings stare at her shadow, curious.
"Strawberries are good," Lono says. "Mr. 33 says we've had a lot of strawberries this year. More than last year."
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Her shadow moves almost like water as she moves, but less physical, rippling around her feet.
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"I help with the garden sometimes. I like the garden," says Lono.
"And I take care of the chickens," Mistral adds.
Teo and Tavi, curious, try to poke at the moving shadow.
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(( *sleep* ))
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Teo and Tavi blink in surprise.
"Sorry," Teo says, Tavi nodding along.
"You shadow was moving," Tavi says. "We thought maybe it was one of the shadow baby things."
"Heartless," Teo corrects. "They can look like shadows but they move."
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She stares down, but can't stay annoyed. 'Ohhh. No, it's not a Heartless. It's me.' She pauses for a second. 'It just moves because I can't control it very well yet.' She sounds just slightly embarrassed.
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"Our shadows don't move like that," Tavi says. "Not even the ones stuck to us."
Teo nods. "Uh huh. We have shadows all over, but they don't move." The hatchling pulls a glove off to show her. When he holds his fingers together it almost looks like he's wearing a mitten made of darkness, but when he wriggles them at her the seperate fingers can be seen, surounded with a pitch black layer of something with the consistancy of a thick mist.
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"They look a lot like us!" Teo says.
"But naked," adds Tavi.
"And we don't have antennae." Kaze lifts up his hat briefly to show this.
"We hatched this way," Luca says with a shrug.
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'Hatched? Like birds?'
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"All Black Mages come from eggs."
"But only Waltzes have wings."
Blaze just preens. Yes, someone is a sucker for attention.
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And the preen draws attention! 'Those are pretty!'
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"Uh uh."
"I don't remember."
"I think we were too little."
"The bigger mages saved the eggshells."
Oh yes, feed the already large Waltz ego. Blaze fans the wings out a bit to better show them off. "Thank you. I'm the only one that has any white feathers."
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