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

[carillons]

"It will be night soon and then I will be flying at night!"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah! Flying under the staaaaars."

[carillons]

Helen giggles delightedly.

[alicornucopia]

"And the moon but it's a new moon tonight."

[carillons]

"Yeah. So the moon later when there is more of it."

[alicornucopia]

"Yes. It will grow."

[carillons]

"Moons do that!"

[alicornucopia]

"And then they shrink!"

[carillons]

"And then they grow some more!"

[alicornucopia]

"Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever."

[carillons]

"Until the sun explodes," says Helen.

[alicornucopia]

"Explodes? Why would the sun explode?"

[carillons]

"Suns aren't immortal! They live a really really really really long time, and then they go boom," says Helen. "I learned that the other day."

[alicornucopia]

"Going boom is a funny way to die," snorts Shura.

[carillons]

"Not if you're a star!"

[alicornucopia]

"I guess! Why do they do it like that?"

[carillons]

She shrugs. "I dunno!"

[alicornucopia]

"Oh. Do moons die?"

[carillons]

"I don't think they die the same way," Helen says consideringly. "But I dunno if they do at all."

[alicornucopia]

"Do any other things besides stars die by exploding?"

[carillons]

"I'm not sure! I wonder how to find out," she muses. "Maybe my spinach would know."

[alicornucopia]

"Maybe. Should we ask him?"

[carillons]

"Sure!"

She listens for Kas and says, "Do any things other than stars die by exploding?"

[truthwright]

"I dunno, button," he laughs. "Maybe galaxies or something."

[carillons]

"He says he doesn't know but maybe galaxies or something," Helen reports.