Chapter 38: Conjecture
Linde tucked herself into her robe and walked quietly behind Jane.
Whenever Jane stood a little closer to him, he could hear Linde's pounding heartbeat.
"Jane!"
Hermione's voice suddenly came from behind them. Then Linde heard hurried footsteps behind her.
He turned his head to look over, only to see Hermione trotting over, and he was so frightened that he quickly dodged to the side.
"Where have you gone, I've been looking for you." Hermione didn't expect Linde to take the initiative to let go of her, according to this person's temper, didn't others make way for him?
She turned her head and glanced at Linde suspiciously. Then he ran straight to Jane's side.
"Where did you go?" Hermione took Jane's hand with ease. "I've been looking for you for a long time. Within minutes of you leaving the library, I was persuaded to come out by Mrs. Pince. ”
"As a result, as soon as I came out, you disappeared, I thought you went straight back to the lounge, but I didn't see you when I went to the lounge." Hermione babbled.
"I'm ......" Jane was about to reply, but she didn't expect Linde to speak on the side.
"Jane! It occurred to me that I still had something. Linde's voice was heavy, as if he was in some pain.
"You guys go back first, oh yes, give me the book..."Lin De was just about to stretch out his hand in his pocket, when suddenly something came to mind, and his fingers gestured in his pocket.
Sure enough, the flippers also came out.
"Give it to you!" Lind gestured to Andersen. Andersen rolled his purple eyes to the side.
Although it doesn't know what's going on, what its boss says, that's what it is.
It fluttered its wings and flew up to Jane and motioned for her to give her the book. Lind looked at Hans Christian Andersen, and suddenly thought of the bird in the sky in the story.
To be honest, the plot of this story is really not good, but every time Linde thinks about it, he has a sense of palpitation and fear for no reason.
Jane looked at Linde suspiciously, making sure he wasn't joking.
"I really have something to do." Linde looked at her puzzled expression and could only emphasize again.
"It's curfew coming soon, what else can you do!" Hermione looked at Linde.
Lind looked at Hermione and thought to herself: Is this your business? The next thing you have to say is "You're going to get Gryffindor points deducted for this?" ”
He's okay! He admits that this is what Hermione would have said when she was in her first year, after all, Harry and Ron's several night outings after they had been met with Hermione's stern objections.
But what does this have to do with me, I'm annoyed right now. Lind felt the sweater rubbing against his gills, and he couldn't show it in pain.
But he's not the kind of person who would lose his temper with others.
"I just have some ......," Lind could say before Hermione interrupted hermone.
"If there's anything you can do, we can help." Hermione looked at him with a serious expression.
Linde was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Hermione to say such a thing.
His own words were also gagged, and Hermione's words made him a little distempered, and he could only shake his head and refuse her. Then he looked at the book Jane was holding on her chest.
Jane handed the book out, and Andersen's claws grabbed the spine and flew back to Lind's side.
With a snap of his hand, he tucked the book back into his robe.
"I'll go first!" With that, he hurried to the other side.
He wore a hood and hid himself in the darkness along the way.
"He's so weird! What exactly did you do before? Seeing Linde walking away, Hermione asked with some curiosity.
"I don't know how he did this, we're just ...... It's just reading the same book together. Jane remembered what had just happened, and she remembered that Linde had been a little strange since she closed the book.
"Reading a book together? The one just now? How do you read such a small book together? Do you look face to face? Hermione's tone became teasing as if she had thought of something, and she deliberately tilted her eyes to look at Jane.
"What? Not at all. Jane's face flushed, but the thought of the two of them seemed to be separated by a wand just now, which was the one that Linde had cast a fluorescent spell.
My face seems to be leaning against his hand all the time, and it seems that I almost put my head on the back of the back.
Thinking of this, she suddenly blushed.
But you can't blame her, that novel is full of typos, scars and large scribbles at every turn, and it's very tiring to look at.
She couldn't even understand how Linde watched with relish.
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As soon as she turned the corner, Linde hurriedly found an empty classroom and walked in, then leaned against it behind the door.
Only then could he barely feel a little relaxed, and he only felt that people passing by were looking at him strangely outside.
Lind took off his hood and threw the book on the table casually, pulling down the collar of his sweater to feel more comfortable.
"Luckily, I have a lot of long hair." He whispered, his right hand touching his ear.
His ears are completely different from normal, with sharp bone spurs growing on the outer ear chakra, and a thin membrane of flesh is attached to the bone spurs.
Linde locked the classroom door and rummaged through the lectern.
With good luck, I found a pair of mirrors.
"Fluorescent flicker!"
The tip of the staff lit up white, and he picked up the mirror with his other hand and looked at his ear.
I saw that my ears were no longer the same as human ears, but turned into the shape of fish fins.
"Alas! Fortunately, it was long hair, otherwise it should have been noticed by Jane just now. When he noticed that his gills were coming out, he felt something indescribable in his ears, which is why he wore a hood.
Linde sighed helplessly, then lowered the mirror and looked at the book he had just casually thrown on the table.
"Is it just to watch a story and then 'transform' uncontrollably! Or is there another reason? Lind wondered why the book had such an effect on him.
"Stop!" Lind waved his wand at the book to cast the spell, but nothing strange came to mind.
"Is it because there's no magic attached to it, or is it because my spells aren't strong enough?" Linde looked solemnly at the little blue book lying quietly on the table.
"And why is it that I'm the only one who has this unconscious change, and Jane isn't?" The reason why he took the book from Jane's hand was that he was afraid that the book would be borrowed, and as a result, some tragedy would happen that no one wanted to see.
"Is it aimed at any 'non-human'? It is also possible that it is only for the "Fish-Man".
On the other hand, I just grew gills and other things uncontrollably, which is not a bad thing.
Or is it because it's only useful for Fish-People? Linde pondered the possibilities in his mind, and finally, as he focused on his mind, his gills and webs and fins gradually returned to their normal form.
During this time when his body was gradually recovering, he thought of many blind spots.
Maybe my changes have nothing to do with this book, maybe it's a manifestation of "the adolescence of the half-breed fishman", just like I grew ear fins again this time.
Or that my "transformation" may be related to emotions, and I was shocked after reading that article, so I unconsciously became a half-fish person.
Or maybe you have become more sensitive, which may be related to the humidity of the air.
All the possibilities of turning into a half-mermaid form have been sorted out by him.
Seeing that he was back in his normal human form, he carefully picked up the book again and pushed open the door to the classroom.
I've got to go to the Room of Requirement tonight to test my body.
Along the way, he always felt that he still had some blind spots that he hadn't noticed, but he couldn't remember them after turning them over and over again.
"It's just that I'm thinking too much." In the end, Linde could only comfort himself in this way.
"After all, as a half-fish person, it's normal for me to have a lot of strange things on my body."
He is inexplicably sure that he is a hybrid orphan of humans and fishmen.