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On Monday, Bella arrives at school completely and stably human shaped, with everything she has learned about critters (except for her own species, which she isn't liable to forget) written down as margin notes on a page reminding her to ask Darren about D&D and filler decoy notes about that. She's probably going to have invent an actual cipher alphabet or something eventually but for the time being she thinks this will probably do for casual inspection.
She sits next to Darren in English.
shesepankh
shesepankh
"Okay." Bella stands up and streeeeetches. She's been hunched over her notebook for a long time even for her.
castmyown
Darren's kind of stiff now, too. "Ow," he says. "... I should probably have gotten up and walked before now."
Whatever. Off they go to find his father!
Whatever. Off they go to find his father!
steppingup
And there he is, in the kitchen. He looks up, amused. "You two have been busy, I take it?"
shesepankh
"I like Chinese. Good with most anything in the genre but I can produce specific opinions if you want me to and give me a menu to look at."
steppingup
"... Thanks. Only organized one in the house," says an amused Vernon. Menu goes to Bella. "There you are."
shesepankh
Bella looks through it and expresses an appreciation for wonton soup and chicken fried rice, "but again, I'll eat whatever you'd normally get."
morethanimaginary
Savannah arrives from upstairs! "... Oh my god you two have noses out of books. Are you dying?"
shesepankh
"Skin and bones and feathers, don't forget," says Bella, producing feathers. Darren's standing sufficiently adjacent to her that one wing winds up settling incidentally on his back.
castmyown
Darren.... Notices and inspects his shoes, giggling a little. He is embarrassed and vaguely pleased.
shesepankh
Bella figures Darren just thinks, entirely reasonably, that she is hilarious. She puts her wings away. "Is nighttime a good time to try flying practice? It's getting dark, we could go after dinner, we'd be hard to see?"
morethanimaginary
"It's the best time. Do you want to go flying? Because... Darren can take you flying."