Della Duck (
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starlightcafe2019-12-27 04:39 pm
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It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor - could you be mine?
Della didn't much mind the cold, so long as she kept moving, which was (part of) why the visit to the other Duckburg's Manor had become a walk out in the slush. According to Scrooge, the snow had been fierce just a week ago, but now conditions were safe enough to be out in, though they were sticking to the Manor grounds just in case things got bad again. Della wasn't nuts about that limitation, but at least she was in good company.
She smiled over at Scrooge. "You do this regularly with my uncle, right?" she asked.
She smiled over at Scrooge. "You do this regularly with my uncle, right?" she asked.
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"Is it... I mean, do you think you wanted more time on your own out here?"
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"Maybe. I don't know."
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"It's entirely reasonable to want time by yourself, even from the people you hold closest."
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A short little half-chuckle, then he sighed a bit.
"That's not it... Not entirely anyway, I guess. I just keep thinking about leaving the Rock, and how many times I almost did before. Sometimes it would've been alone, sometimes it would've been with friends, but I never wound up doing it. ...Until I did."
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"That day we were in Rainbow Reminisce, and I sang that song? It was one I'd sung before, on that day where it looked like all the Fraggles were gonna leave the Rock. Wembley sang it with me, and.. I think hearing it is what convinced everyone to stay."
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"...I don't know. I guess that's what I've been trying to figure out."
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When Gobo nodded, Scrooge started off again, leaving space for the Fraggle between himself and Della. At first they walked in silence, then he glanced down at him.
"So, what happened before you decided to really come out on your own?"
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"I think I've told you guys about that before, right? About the Honk of Honks, and Doc moving and all that jazz... Heh. Y'know, that was one of the times I almost left the Rock, too. He wanted me to come with him before he moved, but I got scared and went back to Fraggle Rock. Then he did leave, and... I dunno. It still all felt so different, even though the tunnel we found to his new place was almost in the exact same spot as the old one."
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She stretched one arm out, using the other to brace it against it. "How long after that whole thing did you leave?"
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For him to have made up his mind so quickly...
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He breathed out a sigh, the breath pluming at the end of his snout and then buffeting backwards. "I had felt a little lost, because what does an explorer explore when there's nothing left? But the Storyteller told me about a trip that not even Uncle Matt had finished, so I set out on it with my friends. It was supposedly an impossible quest that no one had ever completed, to find nothing less than the meaning of life itself." Weak, humorless chuckle. "We had different levels of confidence about this a'course, but to me this sounded like just what I needed.
"We struggled a little to make it, but eventually we got to the outskirts and found a literal point of no return, with a map and a message carved on a wall. 'To learn the secret you must walk alone, and never return to all that you've known. This map is but the first of many more. Each map found, the further to explore. The meaning of life awaits those who pay the price. A lifetime of wisdom for a lifetime of sacrifice.' One by one the others decided that the Rock needed them more than they needed the meaning of life, but in the end... I continued. Wembley was there at first, but then even he realized he had to go back. I pressed on for a bit, but then... I decided, too, that I had to go back, and I did."
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"So... It sounds like once you left the Rock - and really saw what was out there - you couldn't go back so easily, then."
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He glanced down and when Gobo, after a pause, nodded, he continued. "That happened to me in my youth, actually. I'd spent the previous couple o' decades gaining wealth for back home, to support my family. And when I finally made it, was finally rich beyond my wildest dreams, I thought I would move back into my home in Scotland." He sighed, nostalgic at the memory but not regretful, having long made his peace with this. "I was wrong. Scotland, that part anyway, had become too 'backwater' and I had changed too much because of my travels. It's not necessarily a bad thing, to feel like you don't belong where you came from. Home is where you make it, after all. And ultimately, I made a new one. My living family members and I decided to travel together for a while, and 'twasn't long after that that I founded what would become the modern Duckburg. Everythin' since then has been history, as they say."
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"Yeah, I guess that's... why I'm not really upset my friends came with me. Fraggle Home is exactly what it sounds like it is." He was quiet a bit, then sighed again. "It's just that... Fraggle Rock was a lot. Still is. You're right, when you say places don't change. And I'm not talking about the parties or the music or anything like that either. My friends, and the other Fraggles, they.." He paused, trying to put words to it. "Well. It seemed like I was always getting picked for the big and important stuff, or led things happening, or was always being asked one thing or another, or that others just wanted me. Some days I couldn't get a bit of peace. There's even a couple times where everything almost ended entirely because the Rock as a whole decided to listen to what I said."
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"No. The first time was when I was still a kid. Uncle Matt had always said that, if ever there was too long a time between postcards, that he wanted me to go out there and find him. There had been a couple of weeks without any news, and... I wasn't a true explorer then, not yet, but I knew I had to do my duty and go out there. The entirety of Fraggle Rock got behind me, and then threw me a goodbye party completely by surprise. In the end I didn't have to go because a postcard came in, explaining that he'd been sick, but..."
He trailed off, looking down a moment in thought. "That was the first time for a lot of things, I think. The other Fraggles getting behind me for something, the thought of me leaving the Rock for Outer Space... and only a week before I'd been stuck out there in Doc's Workshop! I couldn't think of anything but getting back into Fraggle Rock, and now here I am out here thinking about how far I've gone from Fraggle Rock."
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