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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[carillons]

She spends some time looking at all the trees - they are beautiful trees, and worth looking at - before she finally starts inspecting the branches, and then picks one that is pretty and looks right, and cuts it from its tree.

[alicornucopia]

It will float for her, because she cut it herself, in the way that Ranata's or Petaal's won't.

[carillons]

Eeeee! Helen hugs it.

[alicornucopia]

"Try flying!" beams Ranata, taking a picture.

[carillons]

Helen tries flying.

Flying works.

"Wheeeeeeeeeeeee," she says, zooming around Ranata in an only slightly wobbly circle.

[alicornucopia]

Ranata grins and zooms as well.

[carillons]

Helen chases her!

"This is better than rollercoasters!" she shouts.

[alicornucopia]

"It is!" agrees Ranata.

She leads Helen around in a series of maneuvers that will let her surreptitiously check for balance or steering issues.

[carillons]

No such problems manifest themselves.

"Wheee!"

[alicornucopia]

"Whee!" agrees Ranata, and homeward she leads her grandchild.

[carillons]

Her flying grandchild.

(Along the way, she listens for Kas and tells him that she cut herself her very own cloudpine branch and it is perfect and nice and she's flying and flying is the best thing. Petaal agrees that flying is super great.)

[alicornucopia]

Flying is super great!

It is a long flight with plenty of opportunities for learning the finer points of the sport back to clan lands.

[carillons]

Helen is extremely attentive.

Whee!

[alicornucopia]

Ranata is good at teaching small witches how to fly!

Don't mind the occasional nostalgic expression on her face; they are soon cleared away by smiles.

[carillons]

Helen has so many smiles.

And the very second they get back and land, she has so many hugs.

[alicornucopia]

Hugs! Hugs are wonderful.

[carillons]

Hugs are wonderful.

"I can flyyyyy," beams Helen.

[alicornucopia]

"Of course you can. You're a witch," grins Ranata.

[carillons]

"I'm a grown up enough witch to flyyyyyyyyyyy!"

She twirls around and around and around and around and dizzily hugflops onto Ranata.

[alicornucopia]

Ranata laughs and catches her.

[carillons]

"Flyyyyyy," she mumbles into Ranata's silks.

[alicornucopia]

"Just mind you don't spin yourself dizzy and then crash into a tree."

[carillons]

She giggles. "I won't!"

[alicornucopia]

"Good." Forehead-kiss.

[carillons]

Hug. Hug hug hug hug hug hug hug. Also, hug.