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Sydney was surprised she enjoyed the dragon egg assignment as much as she did. When the assignment started, her interest was purely scientific, but to her surprise, she’d actually bonded with Vox. Normally she wasn’t the type to get attached to anything at all, let alone something soft and cuddly like a plush!
She placed a protective arm around the Swedish Short-snout plush nestled safely in the wrap she wore around her front. Vox gave her hand a playful nip, then snuggled against her chest. She giggled softly. For once she was glad that Vox wasn’t an actual dragon; otherwise that nip could’ve done some damage. Vox was a biter, that was for sure! He also liked to roar in the middle of the night, and he kept trying to set fire to Alastor. It was rather funny, but Sydney couldn’t have Vox hurting her prized venus flytrap!
Sydney’s thoughts began to wander as she waited for Professor Paton. She contemplated the concept of nature v. nurture, and she wondered if Vox would have the same chaotic personality had he been hatched by someone a little more… passive. A horrible thought occurred to her. What would happen to Vox after Professor Paton removed the enchantments? Without his bite, his roar, or his fire, he wouldn’t be Vox anymore! He’d be just another ordinary plush… would he be any fun like that?
She hugged Vox closer to her, feeling suddenly melancholy… though she tried not to let it show in her perpetually stoic expression. Removing the enchantments felt like removing Vox’s personality! Maybe there was a way around it… Her mind raced. She could try to convince Professor Paton to let her keep the non-dangerous aspects of Vox’s enchantments, at least his static-like roar. She could take Vox home at the end of the term and ask her mums to enchant him again. If all else failed, she could bide her time until she learned how to do the enchantments herself, but she hoped she wouldn’t have to wait that long. You won’t lose your personality forever, I promise, Vox! she thought.
__________________ 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... |