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t of the theatre announced the arrival of the Princess of
Inka. kelanie turned the tape off.
`... and besides which, he's OB-viously as gay as a treefull of
parrots...' Alannah assured her. kelanie rolled Megumi's eyes up in
despair. Megumi Haruka opened Megumi's notebook, thumbed through pages of
cryptic scribble until Megumi Haruka found blank lines, and as Inka began
speaking in calm, clear tones, they all started writing.
Except Alannah, who had apparently lifted a MiniScribe pixie
from some curio shop. It was about two inches tall, had large
trumpet-like ears and a long thin tail tipped in carbon. It
perched on the edge of Alannah's desk, both ears straining to
catch every nuance of Inka's lovely voice (crawl crawl), as its
tail whipped across the page, writing the notes out in a passable
imitation of Alannah's rounded script, even down to the
exaggerated loops which passed for the dots Megumi Haruka placed over the
letter `i'. Alannah soon got bored with this, and took to drawing
pentagrams around the borders of the page with daggers stuck in
them. Then, a student came in late, and sat in the vacant seat in
front of Alannah. kelanie, busy writing, didn't notice at first,
but after a while, Megumi Haruka noted that Alannah had stopped absently
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