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]

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.

[alicornucopia]

All the hugs.

[carillons]

When she un-dizzies, she races off to find Shura.

[alicornucopia]

Shura is in her grandma's house, reading a storybook.

[carillons]

"Shura Shura Shura I can flyyyyyy," says Helen.

[alicornucopia]

"Lucky, I still have to wait!"

[carillons]

"When you can fly too we should fly together!" says Helen.

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah!" agrees Shura. "We can go way out over the ocean and swoop around the big waves!"

[carillons]

"Yeahhh," says Helen, beaming. "It'll be fun! Tell your mom to hurry up and take you to the cloudpine place!"

[alicornucopia]

"She says in two months," grumbles Shura.

[carillons]

"Awww." Helen hugs her. "Wanna come flying on mine?"

[alicornucopia]

"I dunno, are you gonna drop me? You just started."

[carillons]

"We can go only a little bit and not very high," she says, "and then I'll learn how to not drop you, and then later I can fly you more!"

[alicornucopia]

"Okay," says Shura, finding this satisfactory, and she puts down her book.