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Can your friends do this? Can your friends do that?
Lexi pinned her hair back - it was growing out pretty nicely at this point, she thought; about as long as Webby's had been when they'd first met. Normally, she just let it do whatever - laziness beat out vanity - but having her hair get in her eyes while she was practicing magic wouldn't do.
She was excited about this. Magic training with Unca Scrooge - as much as she looked up to him - was such hard work, but showing Gobo her magic? That was bound to be a great time - especially since telling Gobo about her magic, her Dark magic, didn't feel awkward to the teen. He wouldn't hear Dark and hear "bad", she figured. She could just show off what she'd been learning over the past few weeks in the Other Duckburg.
An exchange of letters and postcards - always postcards from Gobo - had lead to a meet-up being set for that afternoon, at the first Fraggle Hole they'd found in Lexi's own Duckburg. They'd both been pretty busy for just over a month, so it would just be good to see her pal again, really, in the first place. She rounded a corner, and soon after, the Fraggle Hole was in sight.
She was excited about this. Magic training with Unca Scrooge - as much as she looked up to him - was such hard work, but showing Gobo her magic? That was bound to be a great time - especially since telling Gobo about her magic, her Dark magic, didn't feel awkward to the teen. He wouldn't hear Dark and hear "bad", she figured. She could just show off what she'd been learning over the past few weeks in the Other Duckburg.
An exchange of letters and postcards - always postcards from Gobo - had lead to a meet-up being set for that afternoon, at the first Fraggle Hole they'd found in Lexi's own Duckburg. They'd both been pretty busy for just over a month, so it would just be good to see her pal again, really, in the first place. She rounded a corner, and soon after, the Fraggle Hole was in sight.
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"Pick me up and lay me down, an' spread the news all over town, and tell 'em all to come or they'll be sorry." He leaned his head and shoulders back, bobbing from side to side with the rhythm. "Pick me up and shake me twice, I'm comin' back from Paradise, this poor boy is here to live in glory..."
Noticing his friend approaching, he held off on the singing, though he kept up playing the same music.
"Hey there, Lexi!"
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"It's a funeral dirge."
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"Why do you- What?"
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"I thought that'd get a reaction out of you!" He snickered through his snout. "It's kinda a long story but basically, Red, Boober, and I had been trapped by Junior, who thought he was dying. We needed to distract him, he requested 'a funeral dirge you can dance to' so, that's what we did. When he was good and dancing, we got away."
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"Hey, we have our sad songs and proper funeral dirges. Especially if Boober composes them." Another snort. "But we like our parties too."
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"Sure! What is it?"
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Behind her back, she held up her index and middle fingers on one hand, and began turning them around in circles. Focusing intently, she was able to shift Gobo's shadow from stationary to wiggling back and forth... She smirked, but wasn't done quite yet - a little more time passed before Gobo's shadow began to arc on the ground, sideways, curling around and into his field of vision.
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"Pretty great, huh?"
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"The first time I was face to face with Doc, he didn't see me at all! But after talking to the Trash Heap, I'd discovered why: he'd lost the 'magic,' the way some Silly Creatures do. But she told me something that's stuck with me ever since. You cannot leave the magic. Cantus gave me a little wisdom too, that once Doc touched me, and I touched him, he'd be able to see me. Well, I went back up to that workshop in time to hear the news that Doc was losing his best friend, who was moving away for his health. And that... well, that hit me right in the heart, you know? I knew what that felt like. I put my hand on his, and that was that. He looked at me for the very first time."
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"I think... I can guess what that must be like. Losing the magic." She gave him a soft squeeze. Really, Lexi's life so far had been full of losing herself, who she was, and Gobo had been an instrumental part of her getting so much closer to figuring it out, a few years back to even now, in the present.
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"He was utterly fascinated to learn I exist, and I wanted to talk to him more, too, though I had some other business to take care of, which is a story itself I'll tell another time. Unfortunately, not long after that I fell ill and wasn't able to go back up to the surface for a whole week, and by that time Doc and Sprocket had moved to follow his friend. The workshop was empty and dark, and I hadn't been able to give him the message from the Trash Heap about the magic.
"Well, my friends- who had come up with me -and I were going to head back to Fraggle Rock, when Wembley noticed a completely new tunnel off the main one there. It was beautiful, I should show it to you someday. Full of color and light, and it led right to Doc's new home!"
He shifted the song he was playing a little, though it was still soft and sweet. "That's what I learned. Everything is magic, if you see it that way. The way hearts and people touch each other, the way everything is connected, Silly Creatures, Fraggles, and everything in between, Fraggle Rock itself...
"You cannot leave the magic."
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A specific memory came to mind, too - when she'd told her uncle Scrooge that she was a girl. She'd been really nervous, unsure if he'd get it on any level, so Donald had gone with her when she told him. Lexi had been about to freeze up when Uncle Donald had gently pushed her forward, and the way that had given her courage was like...
Well, like magic.
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"Hey, I give what I get!"
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