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"Are you suggesting we will get hurt?" The man of the pale-blond hair had a sudden expression gripping his face between outraged and stricken with fear. "Don't be making accusations like that, or do you mean us all to get - I mean, the women to get scared."
"Tut! Forsooth! And most certainly tch!" said Anachrovica said, her hands fluttering like pale butterflies through the air as she made as if to pat down fears and anxieties. "There's nothing in that old, run-down doohickey to worry about, what?
"All we need to do," Anachrovica sing-songed, "is restore the kiddies
vis a vis their loving families etcetera. Why, a quick in and out job - everything will be perfectly totsy."
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"I'll go!" said the man of the glasses stepping forwards , as frail-looking as ever. But resolute, even valiantly. You would think he was the Harry Potter of their times... with not a bit of (*coughQuidditch-tannedcough*) muscle, though.
Anachrovica beamed, a little dizzily at the frail man, whose glasses really were glinting rather heroically. "There's a good chappie!" she said. "I must say, that's absolutely
ripping of you!
"I'll come with, of course," she added brightly, an incongruously lanky figure with her hinge-y elbows and knees, poking out of the well-tailored corners of her tweed suit. "Now who else is up for a jolly good adventure?
She beamed through her thick, blunt bangs; white-gold hair falling past her shoulders, swinging and shaggy, looking for all the world as if she were ready to tell some doubtless crestfallen would-be adventurer that she was
dreadfully sorry, but they'd filled the necessary quota of people to go on a dangerous and deadly mission to rescue brats who probably played their music too loudly and refused to eat spinach. That anyone might refuse did not, for a moment, cross her mind. Anachrovica Didymus was used to, by virtue of her old name (
"Why, the Didymuses, darling. They came over with William the C.!")and odd, incongruous (blue) blood mixing through her veins and gap-toothed smile, to being refused nothing - much less someone's health, safety and sanity.