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PureBlood64 
"But you walked out with a lizard?" Katie ended what Nora had said, and then giggled. That had happened to Katie once, when she had got her owl, at first she wanted a pure white snowy owl, but when she saw a boy turn down the Sooty Barn owl because he said it looked ugly, Katie, like she did a lot of times, felt sorry for the owl and brought that one instead and called it Destiny, and for some reason Destiny had taken a really big liking to Katie, she thinks its because no one else brought the owl until Katie had come, but she isn't positive.
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Yes, I did," she giggled. Now that she actually heard it out loud, she finally realized how silly that sounded. "
I just couldn't bring myself to leave him there, once I laid my eyes on him. He was the only one actually staring back at me."
Love at first sight. "
And the problem is that I am now too afraid to buy a cat or an owl, as much as I'd love to, because I don't want to risk anything." You know, owl eats lizard, cat eats owl... and Nora kills cat, resulting in Nora not having any pet.