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Strange Things
Alex had a lot to ponder.
The day after her eleventh birthday, her father had woken her up and told her they were going on a trip—to Scotland of all places! No real warning, and no reason given. Just, "Pack your bags, Alex. We'll be gone for a week. I've already notified the school."
Thankfully, she had hid the book—the one the owl had brought—beneath a loose floorboard in her room. She didn't want to think about how she would have tried to explain it to her father. Unlike her journal, there was no way she could play that off as fantasy or a creative writing project. There was just something too real about it.
She had quickly packed a bag, then ate a cold breakfast and left.
Their first stop would be in Inverness. They would spend the night there, before moving on to a tiny hamlet further north near the sea. And considering the small village where she lived, if her father said the place they would be staying was "little," Alex was expecting no more than an inn and a few houses.
She had quite a lot to ponder, besides her father's abnormal behavior, of course. There were other things that were just as pressing—like, what if Nessie really existed!
Alex had a strange feeling that she shouldn't be so excited about an ancient giant sea monster potentially being real.
Prompt (Original Character Boot Camp — Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges): giant [word count: 237]