405, Friday Night

[l1ttle_billy]

Dear Mom,

Okay first, thank you for the birthday card, and I’m sorry I haven’t written sooner. There’s, well there’s been a lot of things going on.

For starters, I turned into a Bearded Dragon. Honestly. It was a very interesting experience. I, kind of knew who I was, but kind of not. People certainly treated me differently as a small, and in a strange way, cute lizard. Then I had to borrow a rather avant guard skirt when I turned back. No I will not give you any more details. People turning into animals is not an unusual occurrence here actually. Enough so that my teachers accepted it, and merely gave me some make up work, and not detention for missing a weeks worth of classes.

Okay at the risk of depressing you, we had a parents weekend a few weeks ago. Fortunately, no unexpected parents of mine showed up. You would have been welcome of course but it might have made for some awkwardness, as I’ve told everyone my parents are dead. However I was not unrepresented. I don’t know if you’ve ever met Duke, probably you have, as I think anything pertaining to Dad falls under his jurisdiction. Anyway, he showed up. I was a little worried at first, but it turns out he showed up because of a phone call I’d made.

See, this school really had me worried, and long story shorter, I thought maybe this place was secretly training kids to be terrorists, or worse, tyrannical warlords. Part of the reason for that is that one of the teachers was a terrorist back home. I later found out that he was actually a good guy. I called witness protection and told them I was worried, and they sent him. He talked me into staying. Which so far, I’m glad of. I’ve told two people here, part of the truth about me. One figured it out on their own, which was one of the things that scared me. The other I told on purpose, because I found out she was an orphan, and I couldn’t pretend to be one around her.

Something I’d heard about, but had not actually seen any evidence of until Parents Weekend, was the double phenomenon. Apparently many people on this island have doubles in other worlds. I first saw this when I saw two of the same girl, but one was older, apparently a her from the future. Then, I found out that Duke has a double in a friend of mine’s world. Apparently, a very dangerous double.

So happier stuff! I had my first Halloween ever! Complete with Jack O’ Lanterns, and Trick or Treating and dressing up and everything! I wasn’t sure for a while what to dress up as. I thought briefly about a cowboy, there’s a few of them around here. I finally went with the Headless Horseman.

And I finally managed to get to DC as a tourist. I much prefer it as a tourist.

So what else before I go? Uhm, discovered a wrecked Spanish Galleon, met an alien and some kinda blanket monster, helped write a petition, found a mysterious book in a room marked 666, and possibly flirted with a very angry young woman.

So that’s the news here. I’ll write a gain soon.

Love,
Billy