thirteenth dance | video;

[quackery]

[When the video switches on, Ahiru is sitting on her bed flipping hurriedly through a book - Grimm's Fairy Tales. She'd had a few days of free time on her hands at the beginning of the week, and she's taken the opportunity to make a trip to the library. Once she had read the other books and started on this one, she had grown more and more dismayed

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[troublesmells]

A-are you sure that's a fairy tale, Ahiru?! I've never heard of that story before!

[quackery]

I read all the words straight out of the book!

[troublesmells]

M-maybe the book's a fake! Or someone's playing a joke on you!

[quackery]

I got it from the library!

[troublesmells]

Maybe the library's playing tricks on you, giving you creepy stories instead of fairy tales!

[quackery]

Why would the library play a trick on me?

[troublesmells]

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Um...you could ask them?

[quackery]

I don't think libraries normally do things like that...

[troublesmells]

What if it's a different kind of library?

Or, it wasn't the library, but someone set up that book?

[quackery]

How would they have known I was going to take this book?

[troublesmells]

I dunno, sometimes people watch you and then suddenly they pass you the wrong book!

[quackery]

I took the book off the shelf on my own...

[troublesmells]

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Okay, so maybe these are a different kind of fairy tale?

[quackery]

A lot of people are saying they came from a long time ago, when they were for grown ups.

[troublesmells]

...I've never heard of fairy tales for grown-ups...

[quackery]

They don't have them anymore! But they did a long time ago.