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]

"He wants me to learn -" Shura gestures. "Mortal stuff. I don't have to go to school but I have to listen to him tell me stuff that I'd get told if I went."

[carillons]

"What kinds of mortal stuff?"

[alicornucopia]

"Uuuugh, like stuff about mortal wars from before even my grandma was born, and science, and boring books."

[carillons]

"Awwww," says Helen. "I don't have to read any boring books!"

[alicornucopia]

"That's lucky!" says Shura.

[carillons]

"I read fun books about fun things," she says. "I wish your uncle wasn't boring! He should tell you fun stuff instead."

[alicornucopia]

"He says I have to learn it or I'll be badly educated."

[carillons]

"Do you care about that?"

[alicornucopia]

"I don't even know what being badly educated is supposed to, you know, do."

[carillons]

"Maybe you should ask," she says. "To make sure it's not important."

[alicornucopia]

"If it is are you going to start learning the boring things so you aren't badly educated?"

[carillons]

"I don't know!" she says. "I like learning the fun things. Maybe I can just be really well educated about things that I like."

[alicornucopia]

"My uncle says that's not how it works."

[carillons]

"But he never said what's so bad about being badly educated?"

[alicornucopia]

"No, just that being not-badly educated has to do with knowing lots of different things even if the things are boring."

[carillons]

"That's weird," says Helen. "Does that mean you're badly educated if you don't know any boring things?"

[alicornucopia]

"I guess so!"

[carillons]

"What if you like everything, then are you just badly educated no matter how much stuff you know?"

[alicornucopia]

"Maybe not. I'm not sure. Sometimes when I say something is boring he says it's not. He's wrong though."

[carillons]

"Sometimes stuff that's boring for one person is fun for somebody else," says Helen. "Maybe lots of things are fun for your uncle and that's why he doesn't care that they're boring for you."

[alicornucopia]

"Maybe," says Shura. "Whatever, I don't have to do it a lot. I can just learn magic and stuff most of the time."

[carillons]

"Magic is fun!"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah!" agrees Shura brightly.

[carillons]

"And so is cake. I wonder if there are spells about cake?"

[alicornucopia]

"There are spells to warm stuff up!"