chapter 21 for Resilience is up
In which Bradford, Heron, Pepper and a baby April go up a river and Bradford screams at the top of his lungs at Heron. so, nothings changed.
As the motorboat neared the end of the forest riverway and closer to Duckburg, Bradford decided it was time for him to transform back into his old form. Coming in on a boat late in the day wearing a hulking, magical metal suit wasn’t exactly what one might call “inconspicuous”. He had originally given over the Sword to Heron to hold, causing him to return to his old form: hunched back, long and crooked necked, heavy body and blurred sight. But curiously enough, the Sword kept retreating from Heron’s grasp and ending up in Bradford’s instead, its purple aura causing him to transform again. He found it quite annoying quickly.
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Link!: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33655333/chapters/112039816