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Jul 07, 2011 18:13

[Merlin's sitting at the foot of a bed, a large laundry basket beside him. The actual laundry is folded beside it so that the basket can instead hold a duck - one of Freya's, looked after by him until she's able to do it herself ( Read more... )

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Video. supercilious July 8 2011, 01:18:39 UTC

Those ducks need training.

[ Answering the question would be a tad redundant, he feels. ]

Video. pratservant July 8 2011, 02:25:37 UTC

Exactly how does one train a duck?

[It does make him glance back over his shoulder though.]

No! Not that shirt!

Video. supercilious July 8 2011, 02:36:36 UTC

I don't know. But horses and dogs and falcons and things can be trained, so surely you can teach your ducks to be well-behaved.

[ On second thought, given their current master and previous mistress, maybe not. ]

Or perhaps you should just let them roam free in my rooms, how about that.

Video. pratservant July 8 2011, 02:53:12 UTC

Well...do you think I can teach them how to sew?

[Merlin frowns down at his handful of buttons.

The offer makes him perk back up though.]

Really? You'd be all right with that?

Video. supercilious July 8 2011, 04:25:58 UTC

Merlin. If either of those animals goes anywhere near my desk, I will carry them to the kitchens myself.

[ But otherwise yeah, he's okay with it. ]

Video. pratservant July 8 2011, 04:31:02 UTC

You wouldn't! Besides, they're way too small right now, and Freya will be along to collect them long before they're big enough to eat.

Video. supercilious July 8 2011, 04:40:14 UTC

Actually, I hear roast duckling is very tender.

Video. pratservant July 8 2011, 05:09:18 UTC

I'm afraid you'll have to settle for chicken.

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But don't eat it in front of them.

Video. supercilious July 8 2011, 05:20:33 UTC

They won't know.

Video. pratservant July 8 2011, 05:25:35 UTC

They might. Animals are very attuned to such things.

Video. supercilious July 8 2011, 06:32:07 UTC

Are they really? So you're saying that feeding them bits of my breakfast shall constitute them a moral dilemma?

Video. pratservant July 8 2011, 11:19:31 UTC

...You fed them chicken?

Video. supercilious July 8 2011, 11:37:25 UTC

Look, it's not cannibalism, chickens are completely different.

Video. pratservant July 8 2011, 12:18:09 UTC

How-

[Okay Merlin, lower your pitch. Now is not the time to get hysterical.]

It's still not natural! What if it makes them rabid or something!

Video. supercilious July 8 2011, 12:29:18 UTC

Rabid . . . ducks.

Video. pratservant July 8 2011, 13:09:20 UTC

Okay, so. Maybe not rabid. I'm just saying that ducks should eat grain and grasshoppers, not their cousins.

[A pause. A relent.]

It is rather nice that you thought of them though.

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