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[sunburned]

Cowardly as it makes him, he decides to avoid the hut. At a loss of where else to really go, he ends up at Julie and Maddie's door, knocking and then leaning his forehead against the doorframe, waiting for her to answer. He wonders if any of what's happened shows on his face. He feels like it must be etched there, inches deep.

Even if he was gone for barely any time at all.

"Julie?"

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[sunburned]

She teases him often - he's used to it. One eyebrow raises and he reaches out, picking up the book.

"I'm almost afraid of what will happen if the two of you ever meet," he says.

[kissmehardy]

"Next time you go visiting, take me with you and we'll find out."

I know people have no control over when or where the island might send us, or if we'll even come back, but I hate the idea of him being in some other world I can't access instead of in a hut just a few minutes from my own.

"I like to think we'll be great friends. If she likes me at all, that is. I don't know how I'd get on with dragons."

[sunburned]

"I think you'd get on with her," he says, toys th the rim of his teacup, face thoughtful as he considers it. "She wouldn't view you as a thread, anyway, although....she has always encouraged...that. She liked Little. I think she just doesn't like to think of me as lonely."

[kissmehardy]

"I can't see a dragon being much threatened by me. Unless they're much smaller than I imagine, or can be talked to death." I can tease myself, too. I sip my tea and smile at him over my cup. "I'm an entirely different sort of company for you, but she and I do have that in common."

[sunburned]

"They can be terribly insecure creatures," he says, leaning back in his chair. "And she can manage to be discreet, most of the time, at least."

[kissmehardy]

"Maybe I am a dragon, in the body of a girl." I may still play a good game of confidence, but I know myself well enough to recognize what my time with the Gestapo did to me. "Still no fire breathing, but you never know what might happen here."