He now wanted to hear all he could about the school, mainly so he could decide if he was going to go or not. Perhaps next time Billie was playing in the prk he might see if he could join - maybe.

Yuri opened his mouth to speak again, to ask if maybe they could bum around together sometime, but as he did he saw the Beadle coming around the corner. ’It’s the beak!’, he hissed. The austere looking man in his smart frock coat and long black cane was coming in their general direction. ’old gits prolly looking for me.’


’I gotta go’ he gasped, his eyes going wide. He started to hurry away from her, putting space between him and Billie and him and the Beadle in one move. ’See you around the park’ he called, before turning his back on Billie and the parish warden, who seemed to have spotted the dark haired orphan. He took off as fast as his skinny legs would carry him.

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