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Saturday, June 19, 2004
Another Scene
Read at your pleasure. It'll always be in the archives.
“Fee, why doesn’t magic exist, again?” Melek, with his sister’s hand on his shoulder was squirming with boredom.
Fee rolled her eyes. Little boys were absolutely irritating. “There is this thing, Mel, called scientific law, and ‘magic’ defies scientific law.”
“Soooooooo. I don’t get it.”
“You aren’t old enough yet to understand these complicated things.”
Melek rolled his eyes. Older sisters were absolutely irritating.
“Does that defy some kind of law, Fee?” Rusty pointed to the swamp that loomed ahead of them.
“Rusty, dear, that’s a swamp, a perfectly normal swamp.” Fee sighed inwardly, trying to ignore the voice in her head that told her to tear her own hair out. If logic were to be applied to the situation, however, she quickly realized that there should not be a swamp on this small tropical island.
The road they were following narrowed, and Melek gazed longingly into the forbidding swamp. The hulking warped giants could hardly be called trees. Hung with all sorts of interesting looking vines - or they could very well be snakes -, they were fetid looking, and from where he stood, Melek thought they smelled like old cabbage soup. Amazingly enough, Fee did not protest as the three children followed the path under the rotten canopy. “Hmm,” Rusty sniffed the air and looked around critically. “I don’t much like this place, Mel. It smells like old cabbage soup.”
“Exactly, Rusty, that’s why it’s wonderful.” Melek was grinning with excitement while Rusty just nodded dumbly.
A sudden loud croak startled the three children, and Fee grabbed both boys’ shoulders protectively. A great fat toad leaped out onto the path in front of them. The amphibian was fully twice as big as Fee’s hand with green warts shining in the filtered light of the swamp. Rusty leaned over in curiosity, examining the odd animal. Fee’s skin recoiled in alarm, prickling up every hair on her skinny arms. “Rusty! Move away from there you blithering idiot,” she whispered harshly. “You’ll get ... warts!” She could hardly stand to think of it.
“He isn’t touching it, Fee.” Melek said in his best my-sister-is-an-idiot voice.
To Fee’s great relief and Rusty’s disappointment, the slimy water creature made one giant leap for frog-kind and disappeared into the surrounding foliage. “Let’s keep moving, please.” Fee shoved her fists into the shoulder blades of her charges.
Just two steps later and she was startled again. Something fell out of the trees and landed on her head. Screaming in fury and surprise, Fee leaped backwards, grabbing her wild hair in the process. Sadly, she missed her footing slightly, all due to the fact of her clumsy large feet stuck to the bottoms of her abnormally long legs, and she fell to the ground. “Fee, you ougn’t fall like that. You’ll get hurt.”
She stared up at Rusty’s chubby little face and right into his hazel eyes. “Stating the obvious is not an attractive habit, Rusty.”
The little boy simply shrugged, and Melek tousled his best friend’s bouncy red hair affectionately. “This is why we’re friends, mate.”
Fee began to get up but noticed something odd. A strange tickling sensation was going on inside the blouse of her dress. Quite alarmed, she reached in and found something. When she pulled it out, both little boys gasped in sheer delight. “It’s the flower, Fee! The Witchdoctor’s flower!” Melek slapped his sister’s leg. “You are lucky!”
Fee, however, felt a wave of fear wash over her. She simply didn’t believe in magic, not the tiniest bit. She stood up in a swift, clumsy arc and stalked off down the path. “Melek, as soon as we get to Mother and Father, I’m going to beat you.” Through her fear, it was all she could think of to say.
Melek watched his sister for a moment, then followed her, Rusty on his heels. “That’s all right, it was worth it.”
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