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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

[Crowley has a pressing, important question.

In fact, it may be the most important question that anyone asks this month.

He sets the device up to video and asks the mansion at large, because he does so dislike making wasted trips.]

Does anyone know if the lake has ducks on it?

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

[Crowley blinks. As much as Aziraphale hadn't realised that the video was on, the demon had not realised that his friend hadn't noticed. He pauses, then snorts.]

What was that?

[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

In the event I have too many ducks, you'll be the first one I tell.

[Hard to tell if he's serious. He probably isn't.]

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

Out? Not at all. I imagine I can manage well enough from here, as long as I don't think too hard about the philosophical implications of a closet producing live animals.

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

Real animal lovers here, huh.

[Behind his carefully schooled expression, his eyebrows are metaphorically lifting into his hair.]

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

Whoever he is, I can't knock the advice.

[He already has Newt pegged for a bleeding heart animal lover of the kind that makes him very much want to eat a very large rare steak for the hell of it, but there is something about a populated lake that's just very...

... comforting.]

You deal with the frogs. I'd rather not.

[Bad associations. You know how it is.]

[theothermrgray]

Agreed.

[Dorian will roll with this.]

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[uncaging]

I don't think I have an opinion on them either way - I'm fairly certain I've never seen a duck before.

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[mr_englishguy]

Certainly. I will definitely watch over them. I've been working on studying all of the local wildlife. I'm excited for the lake having such things.

[Because he is definitely that kind of bleeding heart animal lover.]

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[cakebuffet]

People pulling pets from the closets will never not be weird to me. Apparently it happens all the time.

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[manicuredangel]

I, er... Sorry. Seems I have the video running.

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[punful]

well like you've said, the actual wildlife population is pretty lacking. and hey, people like pets.

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

[... He doesn't get you, Newt. He really doesn't. You're one of those insufferably Good humans he's never going to be able to nudge towards doing anything Bad, and thus are both a curiosity and a complete nuisance.]

Good. Then you can help me move them.

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

You haven't-- What kind of place were you that you never saw a bloody duck?

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[uncaging]

[Her face turns a deep shade of red. There are so many things that she's never seen or experienced, and it doesn't occur to her that other people would regard them as completely normal.]

I-- I was raised alone in a tower. There's a lot that I'd never seen before coming here.

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[mr_englishguy]

[Sadly it has yet to occur to Newt that Crowley isn't a good person. Given he helped him and all, what else is he supposed to think?]

Oh of course. I admit, the boxes are a brilliant idea. I probably would have tried to herd them to the lake.

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

[His expression is one of slight distaste.]

Well. Shame to let it go to waste when an opportunity presents itself.

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

... Why is that a problem? There's nothing about you sitting and reading that I haven't seen before.

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[manicuredangel]

Well, yes, er... But... That isn't usually while we're on a video call. It's more rude like this.

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

When have you ever known me to be bothered by you being rude, angel?

[Really, Azirphale, don't you think you're being a bit silly?]

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

That's why I'm doing this, and you're not.

[Don't ask about the helping. Even Crowley doesn't understand the helping.]

If it was left to you, they'd be everywhere.

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

Huh.

[He huffs out a sigh, shaking his head.]

We're really gonna have to fix that.

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[manicuredangel]

That doesn't make it any better, dear boy. [He doesn't like knowing he's being rude, okay.]

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[mr_englishguy]

Quite possibly they would be. Though I have done well in keep track of those in my own care. Until recently. Recently before Wonderland, that is.

[That was another story all together, and he's been here long enough it truly does feel like two separate times in his life where before it was all "just yesterday".]

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

I think you're making this into more of an issue than it needs to be.

[Eyebrows raised. So high.] What's wrong with you?

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[cakebuffet]

I mean, it's handy if you're lonely, but-- living things shouldn't just appear like that, right?