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Ameh 
Hmmm.
Tilting his head curiously, Hark stepped toward the little gate and into the animal enclosure, eyes flicking between the girl and her chicken. She only wanted to feed the one? Did she not care for the rest? Maybe it was because the chicken seemed a bit small. Hmm.
He held out his hand.
"Can I try?"
She didn't look like she'd been bitten that hard, and a grin spread across his face. "Experience is the best teacher, Miss...?" He trailed off, a slight frown darkening his expression. Didn't know her name. Though that wasn't surprising, he didn't know a single soul here. Kinda sucked being new.
"Well you're lucky either way, chickens aren't as bad as other birds. You know some can take fingers off, right?"
Merlin.
The boy was coming closer. He was probably going to laugh at her or, maybe he was going to do the thing that Destiny could not bring herself to do. Which was kick the chicken. He was a boy after all and he had to have a better kicking foot. But, with those boots he was wearing, she didn't think the animal would go very far.
And he wasn't going to kick it anyway.
Glancing over at the chicken when the boy held out his hand, Destiny shrugged before putting some of the wheat in his hand.
"I think there are gloves over in the shed." she said, mentally kicking herself for not thinking about that earlier. It would have saved her a finger.
Experience is the hardest teacher, she wanted to say, but noticing the frown on his face, she decided against it. Hmm, how new was he?
"Shepard. Destiny Shepard. But, just call me Destiny. Usually people only use my last name when I'm in trouble." Not that she was bad or anything, pfft.
It seemed the new boy knew a lot about birds. Or maybe he just knew about the kind that can take fingers off.
"And what kind of bird would that be, Mister.."
Yes, we want to know your name, too. Or else we will have to make one up.