10. "A writer?"
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"Do you remember Duko?" Fiyero asked.
Elphaba looked up from his chest into his eyes. "Yes… why do you ask?"
Fiyero shrugged and ran his hand through her blue-black hair. "No reason. I was just thinking about him the other day."
"You two were close." Elphaba said to him.
He nodded. "Like brothers," though Elphaba knew he was lying. He smiled, "did you know he didn't want to study medicine?"
"Really? What did he want to do?"
The Winkie prince smiled wider and replied, "A writer."
Elphaba sat up and looked at him, "A writer?"
He nodded, and Elphaba smiled, "I thought so."
It was later that she found the wornpaper in his cloak pocket, on it scribbled in Duko's handwriting a poem, signed "to my friend Fiyero, Duko."
He loved him.
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