i might as well be the man on the moon

[truthwright]

Their Isabella having just gone to welcome a new Bell into the peal, Kas and Petaal snuggle up together and take a nap. They'll want to be well rested for the party.

When they wake up, she still isn't back.

[Jane?]

No response.

Kas teleports down to the Janepoint, Petaal wrapped snake-shaped around his shoulders.

The display reads: error 7788: lycanthropy

"...So that's new," he says.

"No shit," says Petaal. "Now what?"

He shrugs. She coils tighter.

"Hang around and wait, I guess."

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[alicornucopia]

Shura inspects her dagger from damage it may have sustained during contact with the spinach. "Spinach head, spinach head, spinach hea-a-ad," she sings.

"Shura! Too close to meter!" says the dagger teacher. "You know better!"

"Sorryyyyy," groans Shura.

[truthwright]

"Careful, or you might turn me into spinach," laughs Kas.

[alicornucopia]

"Then could Helen come live with meeeee?" asks Shura thoughtfully.

[truthwright]

"I dunno! Helen, if I turned into spinach would you move in with your new best friend here?"

[carillons]

"We-ell, that depends," she says. "Would you be talking spinach?"

[alicornucopia]

"Spinach can't take care of a kid," says Shura. "Even if it talks. That is why when you play house there is a mommy and a daddy and not a spinach."

[carillons]

"...Which one are you?" says Helen, peering at Kas.

[truthwright]

"I can't be all three?"

[alicornucopia]

Shura giggles. "He's a daddy, isn't he? Also maybe a spinach."

[carillons]

"He's a mommy too! I came out of his uterus," Helen asserts. "He has one of those sometimes. He's a daddy and a mommy and a spinach."

[alicornucopia]

"I don't think that is how mommies," says Shura dubiously. "Adopting mommies don't that thing."

[carillons]

"Show her the thing, mommydaddyspinach!" says Helen.

[truthwright]

Kas laughs, and switches sex.

[alicornucopia]

Shura tilts her head. "Mommydaddyspinach," she concludes. "Do you have a - a daddymommyspinach? Or a spinachdaddymommy?"

[carillons]

Helen shakes her head.

"I just have Kas," she says.

[alicornucopia]

"Why?"

[carillons]

"Dunno!"

[alicornucopia]

"Did grownups who like spinach eat the other one?"

[carillons]

Helen giggles.

"Noooo," she says. "I don't think so."

[alicornucopia]

"Then why?"

[carillons]

"I dunno! Mommydaddyspinach, why aren't there two of you?"

[truthwright]

"Because I made you by myself," he says, hugging her.

[alicornucopia]

"Why?" Shura asks.

[truthwright]

"Because I wanted to have a kid."

[alicornucopia]

"How come she's a witch?" Shura asks.