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... It was touching him, it was touching him, the plant was touching him.
Except that it had actually already let go. Daxton, however, had frozen at the moment that the relocated plant had hugged him. Usually, he had little problem with touching things, including plants, and was generally unbothered when things would touch him, as did sometimes happen in a magic school when objects would appear to have minds of their own. But the act of the hug was just slightly too much, slightly too human. He had stopped, dead still, unable to process what was going on, as he had not expected such an action from a plant.
As soon as he realised he was free, Daxton backed away from the plant, quickly, roughly brushing at his arms, shaking them off as if it still had hold of him. He took a moment's pause to hug his own body, each hand clutching tightly to his shirt at the opposite shoulder, and refusing to so much as glance in Myers' direction, so as to avoid letting on being at all unsettled. The urge to squeeze his eyes shut and try to pretend he was somewhere else was almost overwhelming, but Daxton ignored it for the moment, instead taking the time to check first that all of the other screechsnaps were occupied.
No such luck. No sooner had Daxton looked around, than had another of the plants bounded right over and ensnared him, no doubt capitalising on his brief distraction, almost as though it had been part of a big plan. This time, Daxton was expecting it, but that made it no easier to deal with, especially with that infernal screeching.
Finding it just slightly too much, Daxton felt a surge of panic and reacted on impulse, immediately scrambling to try to wrestle the plant off of him with force, prepared to rip its leaves off if he had to, or give it a good kick in the stem. This was Myers' plan all along, he just knew it. Throw him in detention, set giant plants on him to kill him, then act as though it was all a horrible, tragic (or perhaps not-so-tragic, according to some people) accident. Well, Daxton would not give Myers the satisfaction of winning.
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