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.

Comments

[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."

[alicornucopia]

"Chocolate," say Shura, "is good."

[carillons]

"Chocolate is good!"

[alicornucopia]

"Sometimes when I get up early if I'm very quiet I take a little bit," whispers Shura.

[carillons]

Helen giggles conspiratorially.

[alicornucopia]

"I live with my daddy and brother and uncle and cousins who live together, some of the time, and they have a lot in the house."

[carillons]

"That's a lot of relatives!" says Helen. "Are they fun?"

[alicornucopia]

"They're okay," shrugs Shura. "I like my daddy."