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A careful look around at their new surroundings, and already the centuries-young wizard could feel his anxiety rising. Nothing here was familiar. Even the landscape was completely different, and the air itself held unfamiliar energies within it.
“Hey, Arch..?”
“No, don’t you start.” The feline shook his head, taking a moment to clean his glasses before returning them to their usual place. “I warned you, and you didn’t listen. This is what you get for reading aloud from what is very obviously a spellbook.”
“Well, you’re the one who suggested we go through Merlin’s books at the shop.”
“Not to read them! To organize them!”
“And at least half of them have titles too faded to even read! I had to read them to know where to even put them! You know, if he hadn’t gone and died like that he- …” Douxie stopped, now staring quietly at the ground, and at his hands.. Archie knew exactly what that look meant.
“Douxie.. old pal.. It wasn’t your fault.” The feline familiar hopped nimbly onto his wizard’s shoulders, gently pawing at Douxie’s face. “Merlin knew what was to come.. and in no way, was it at all your doing..” A gentle nudge and a nuzzle, before he shifted his feline form to that of one distinctly more draconic.
“I’ll fly up and see if I can’t get a better look at what we’re dealing with here, alright?” Douxie nodded, and Archie spread his wings and took flight, soaring higher and higher until- he nearly collided with another creature! What was it even- Was that some sort of lemur? Archie only spared a brief glance, catching sight too of what appeared to be a- was that a person?! Quickly he dove back toward the cover of the trees, and back to Douxie.
“Act natural, Douxie, don’t draw attention to yourself, I might have already attracted trouble.” Archie shifted back to feline form, again sitting upon the wizard’s shoulders.
“What do you mean you-”
“Shh!”
