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Desiree stayed with Pepa and Bruno, the Peruvian and Amazonian salamanders respectively, for a bit longer to make sure Bruno’s cuts were healing and Pepa was moving around alright with that leg. Satisfied that the two were on the mend, she gave them each a goodbye pet and made her way to the final environment: the icy climate.
This was the one Desiree was most excited to see, and it did not disappoint! She glanced around the area, marveling at the snow-covered landscape. Ooh, so pretty! As she looked around, she noticed a pretty blue first salamander sitting on a snowy rock with a dignified air, as if it were on a throne. Desiree giggled softly. “Hello, your majesty,” she said with a princessy curtesy. There was only one name she could give such a queenly frost salamander. “I’ll name you Elsa, okay?” The salamander blinked, moving her head as if to give a nod.
“Would you like something to eat?” Desiree reached into her pouch for another treat, and a thought occurred to her. If Hades liked his treats burnt, maybe Elsa would like hers frozen. She cast a nonverbal Glacius, setting the icy treat on the rock in front of Elsa. As she watched the little blue creature daintily nibbling her snack, she noticed two things. One was a few flaky scales on Elsa’s tail, signs of a minor case of scale rot. The other was that her snow drift looked a bit low.
Desiree just thought of something. What if she turned that snow drift into an ice castle? Every snow queen needed one of those! She knelt, carefully adding snow and ice to the drift until she’d built walls, windows, a door, and a tower. When she was finished, she conjured a few ice flowers to decorate the outside. “Do you like it?” she asked, looking back at Elsa with a smile.
The little blue salamander blinked, crawling down from her rock. She cautiously stepped into her new ice castle and promptly curled up inside. Desiree would take that as a yes! “Wait there, and I’ll get you some dry ice for your tail,” she said, getting up to find Professor Paton.
__________________ Old voices I had thought long since dead whisper of another life I might have led
If I could take that second chance, If I could make my life anew, If only dreams came true... |