Big revelations are strange creatures. Sometimes they come like an earthquake, rattling the foundations of everything known and established, causing irreparable damage to all it touches.
But sometimes they creep into life and quietly make themselves at home so seamlessly that it's almost like they didn't happen.
And the latter is how life goes on for Duck and Fakir for some time, in part because they're not quite sure what they can do about it. Duck may be Princess Tutu reborn but there isn't an obvious course of action to follow that knowledge.
But then they receive the letter. Or rather, the invitation.
"You and your pet duck got a letter," Charon calls, holding out the heavy, ornate parchment with a bemused smile on his face.
Fakir matches it with his own look of curiosity as he takes the envelope. Duck flies up to sit on his shoulder, watching as he opens the wax-sealed back and takes out the enclosed letter and card.
Charon smiles; if he didn't know better, he'd say the duck was actually reacting to the letter and much happier about whatever news it held than Fakir. She didn't at all try to hide her fluttering or joyous quacking right in his son's ear.
"Well, what's she so excited about?" he asks, pointing to the duck.
"We've been invited to our friends' wedding."
"'We'? Both you and your duck?"
Fakir holds the card out for Charon to see, which clearly states in looping script that yes, both he and Duck are invited to the wedding of-
"'Prince Siegfried and Princess Rue'?" the blacksmith wonders aloud. "This isn't some kind of joke, is it?"
"I know who sent it," his son replies, shrugging the shoulder not holding the duck. "He's kind of...fond of fairy tales, you might say. But if he says he's getting married, there's going to be a wedding. And I'm sure I'll never hear the end of it from him or Duck if we don't attend."
Charon shakes his head, still smiling, as he says, "You have some fairly eccentric friends, Fakir. So, will you have to travel far to get to this fairy tale wedding?"
Fakir ends up smiling so wide at the question that he's in danger of showing teeth. "I'll let you know when we depart but we likely won't be going far and it won't be too long a stay."
"I suppose sometimes that's all a father can ask for."