you can throw me if you want

[truthwright]

It turns out that there was really not much point to making a schedule. Kas and Helen visit the witch clan whenever Helen feels like it, and stay as long as she wants, and go when she wants to be somewhere else, and it all adds up to plenty more time spent with the clan than away.

After the aquarium jaunt with Ranata, it's a little more than a month before they visit the clan again.

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[alicornucopia]

Shura is excited to see her friend! She has been up to things. She has been writing clumsy little stories, and learning spells, and making arrows to practice with. She has done rather more of all these things than would normally be expected from a child her age in the time since last Helen saw her.

[carillons]

Helen is likewise excited, and excited about all of the things!

"That is a lot of things," she observes. "I only saw squishy octopuses and huggable manatees and lots of cities and ate a whole bucket of popcorn and learned how to bake a cake and some more stuff like that!"

[alicornucopia]

"I've been getting up really early and sitting in the moonlight and the starlight and doing things," says Shura. "And my daddy took me to go on roller coasters, too, when I got mad about not being big enough to fly yet."

[carillons]

"Roller coasters! My spinach should take me on roller coasters," Helen declares.

[truthwright]

"Sure thing, button," says Kas.

[alicornucopia]

"They're good! You go up and up and then down," says Shura, gesturing.

[carillons]

"Fuuuuuun."

[alicornucopia]

"And some of them go upside down!"

[carillons]

"Ooooh!" says Helen. "Fun fun fun! Maybe even more fun than baking cakes. I'll have to try it and see!"

[alicornucopia]

"Is baking cakes fun?" Shura asks dubiously.

[carillons]

"Yeah! You make the stuff and it's all gooey and then you put it in the oven and wait and then it's a cake and you can eat it!"

[alicornucopia]

"I know eating cake is fun," giggles Shura.

[carillons]

"It's more fun when you made the cake!"

[alicornucopia]

"How come?"

[carillons]

"I dunno! Just is," she says.

[alicornucopia]

"Weird," pronounces Shura.

[carillons]

Helen giggles.

[alicornucopia]

"Where do you make cake when you're off away?" Shura asks, gesturing vaguely towards off away.

[carillons]

"Wherever we are. We made a little cake in a microwave in a hotel room once! It was extra fun because it was tiny and cute!"

[alicornucopia]

"I didn't know you could microwave cake."

[carillons]

"You can! It's fun!"

[alicornucopia]

"Did you put frosting? Frosting's the best part."

[carillons]

"We diiiiid," she giggles.

[alicornucopia]

"What kind?"

[carillons]

"Chocolate! The cake was also chocolate. And there were chocolate sprinkles."