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[fairytaleknight]

Not long ago, Fakir said to Tutu, "When the Raven faces you, strike!"

But when at last Fakir held the Warrior's sword, and the raven princess danced before him, he couldn't touch her. She shielded herself with Mytho's body, and Fakir hesitated --

and then she was gone, and Fakir did nothing.

He couldn't even attack Princess Tutu with the sword. She stood before him, with that maddening smile, and with her pendant (impossible!) around her neck again, and said, "I don't have any wish to fight you."

Fakir should be furious right now. He isn't, and he isn't really sure why not.

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[reallyaduck]

Was that wall there when Tutu was trying to get to the chapel in the first place?

Maybe it was, and maybe it wasn't, and maybe Princess Tutu just didn't notice it, but either way, Duck's got to climb over it now without any of Tutu's magic to help.

"If I don't hurry up," she huffs to herself, as she scrambles over the stones, "Fakir and Mytho will catch u-oooh!"

And, of course, here comes the inevitable plummet into the bushes.

Why, oh why can't she fly as Duck?

[fairytaleknight]

The school gate creaks open. Mytho passes through first; Fakir follows him.

Fakir stops, suddenly, as Mytho continues walking. There's something moving behind the row of hedges. It's hard to tell what, in the moonlight, but...

It's a curl of orange hair, sticking up from an entirely unwelcome head. Fakir closes his eyes for a disgusted moment before leaning over the hedge. "Hey, you."

[reallyaduck]

It would be suspicious if I was caught lurking around here - "- huh?!?"

Duck's bangs stick straight up. Fakir's caught her lurking around here! Oh man, what's she gonna tell him, she's gotta think of something plausible -

"Awawaa-"

- okay, that was not really what she had in mind!

[fairytaleknight]

Fakir is stern!

(If someone pointed out that the corner of his lip is beginning to twitch, he would absolutely deny it.)

"Stop talking nonsense. What are you doing out this late?"

[reallyaduck]

"- oh there's only one thing I could be doing out this late!" Duck gabbles, and then realizes in a panic that Fakir's sarcastic stare seems to have chased all her excuse-bunnies away. "Uh - that!"

[fairytaleknight]

"That?" Fakir has no idea.

The obvious explanation, that Duck snuck out of her room to kiss somebody or other, is, for some reason, unthinkable.

[reallyaduck]

Possibly it's because Duck is well-known to dote on the unavailable Mytho.

(Or possibly because Duck, in the puffy Kinkan Academy uniform that does nothing for her washboard-flat, waddling build, is about as sexual as a waterfowl.)

"Yes, that!" she agrees, with great determination, and bops to her feet with Dignity.

Maybe she's going to be able to get out of this one after all!

"Well - see you then!" she chirps, and starts to exit at what she thinks is a carefree saunter.

[fairytaleknight]

But Duck's attempt at a discreet departure fails when the pendant around her neck catches the moonlight.

--Pendant?!

"Wait!" Fakir calls after her.

[reallyaduck]

-!!!!

"Goodnight!" Duck squeaks, and speeds up her exit.

MAYBE IF SHE RUNS AWAY VERY FAST HE'LL FORGET THE WHOLE THING.

[fairytaleknight]

Fakir just stands there, his jaw falling open.

She always wears that pendant. Always. I never once noticed it.

...

Duck is Princess Tutu?