The goose and his girl.

[mosca_mye]

Enter a girl

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[wishandwait]

"Like a hand?" Sasha calls, bouncing up from the front step to follow the pair.

[mosca_mye]

"Like another dozen legs, I would," the girl wheezes, leaning on her knees to catch her breath. "Saracen, come back here! you half-hatched, obstreperous, rotten chirfugging bird!"

Saracen, if such is the goose's name, settles some yards away and stares at her smugly, only to take off again with a clamor of wings as she dives for him again.

[wishandwait]

Sasha laughs, and attempts a flanking maneuver, loping off to the right of Saracen.

[mosca_mye]

Saracen swerves, finds Dil tearing after him from the other direction, and zooms between them, hissing.

[werebear_guide]

When small Indian urchins see fleeing poultry? They pursue.

"Thou scoundrel! Thou wilt return to thy lady this instant!"

(And scold.)

[mosca_mye]

The goose makes a derisive goose noise, and speeds past her, a diabolical gleam in his small eye.

[werebear_guide]

Dil runs faster, arms out like a bird herself.

[a_waywith_words]

"Having fun?" Kit calls to the goose in the speech, and circles around the edge of the scent garden, hopping onto and down from a planter.

[mosca_mye]

Saracen just laughs a goosey laugh, discordant and full of wicked glee.

[a_waywith_words]

"Taking that as a yes!" Kit says, and waves to Mosca, "Is the position of assistant goose wrangler still open?"

[mosca_mye]

"If you got nothin' better to do," pants Mosca with acerbity.

[callmestargirl]

Stargirl is never one to sit out on a merry chase. She sets off into the fray with a great whoop, in a flurry of skirts and ribbons. However, she only seems to leap and twirl in aimless circles rather than actually try and capture the errant goose.

[mosca_mye]

"Head him off!" the girl squawks, flailing an arm at her.

[snow_white_scar]

*sets the crocodile on Saracen, and perhaps partially on Mosca, too, since she knows how to hold a grudge*

[mosca_mye]

Mosca, fortunately or unfortunately, is too intent on the chase to notice this immediately, and too deafened now by the shouts of other children to hear the slither in the grass.