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Now wait a tic...
Putting Shalimar to bed, I looked at her ears and my thinking cogs began to crank. I knew already that Shalimar was no normal dragon hatchling: already at two days old she is able to lift Skully's hammer and tinker with it to make it stronger, she was creating level 60 snow storms when she should only be able to make a single random snowflake, she had a murderous look on her face when she heard Orsnic's voice coming from his skull that Skully happened to have, and creating level 80 snowballs that had my remaining guardians in them. These and a few other small things have made me begin to wonder about the neko blood running in her.
Because she had drooled on the shoulder of my dress, I went over to my bookshelf and pulled back on one of the books. A faint click was heard then the shelf swung forward a couple of inches. Going down stairs, I ran tests on the piece of my dress where Shal had drooled on. After a few minutes, the results came in.
"The hell?" I murmured. Showing the results to Ikkit, I asked, "I did do everything right didn't I?"
Taking the paper from me, Ikkit looked it over. After a few moments, she nodded and handed it back.
"But if the trace neko DNA doesn't belong to Koopa..." I said, scratching my head. Suddenly remembering the only other neko I knew, I rushed over to Koopa and banged on her door.
"Hiya Dragon!" Koopa said after opening the door. "What's up?"
"Do you have anything of Lex's still?" I asked.
"...Why?"
"Yes or no."
"I've got his glasses in the trash..."
"Give 'em to me. It's important and has to do with Shalimar."
"Ok," Koopa said, going to retrieve the glasses, "tell me what's goin on."
"I don't have time to explain," I replied, following her, "can I have the glasses?"
"Sure...I guess...mind if i come with you though?"
"Um sure. But you can't come with me into the basement."
"Oh come on!" Koopa said, digging the glasses out of the trash. "Take me! Please? Take me!!!!"
"FINE," I replied, taking the glasses from Koopa. "Come on."
Returning to my house, I made sure that Koopa was going to stay upstairs then I went back into the secret basement. Testing the glasses, I compared Lex's DNA to the trace amounts I found in Shalimar's DNA.
"No...way..." I muttered. Taking the papers upstairs, I slowly closed the bookshelf door behind me.
"What's wrong?" Koopa asked. "You don't look that great."
"You know how I had thought you caused the neko-ness in Shal because you were carrying around her egg all day and the spell that Dracona put on me managed to make that rub off?"
"...Yeah..."
"The trace amounts of Neko DNA in her do not match yours. It's another Neko we both know who caused the feline traits in Shalimar."
"...What are you saying...?"
"Lex isn't entirely dead. He has just enough ghost DNA in Shal to still be alive."
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