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]

"I don't remember. I read it someplace."

[carillons]

"It's a fun word! Pecuuuuuuuuuuliar," she says, giggling again.

[alicornucopia]

"Peculiar peculiar," echoes Shrura, and Nicoa adds an iteration. (He's on her shoulder as a squirrel.)

[carillons]

"Pecuuuuuliaaaaaaaaaaaar," trills Kalavar, climbing up Helen's hair as a teeny tiny dragon.

[alicornucopia]

"You're so often dragons," Nicoa comments to Kalavar.

[carillons]

"I like dragons! Dragons are fun!" says Kalavar. She flaps her flame-red wings.

[alicornucopia]

"In some years we'll be birds forever," says Nicoa with mixed feelings.

[carillons]

"Maybe not," says Kalavar. "Not everybody settles. Petaal didn't!"

[alicornucopia]

"That's pecuuuuuliar," says Shura.

[carillons]

Helen and Kalavar both giggle.

"My spinach is a peculiar person," says Helen.

[alicornucopia]

"Yep," agrees Shura.

[carillons]

"He's the peculiarest!"

[alicornucopia]

Shura says, "I don't think I'm very peculiar."

"We're going to be a bird," Nicoa finishes. "I don't know what kind though."

[carillons]

"I wish I could be a dragon," says Kalavar. "I like dragons."

[alicornucopia]

"Dragons aren't birds," says Nicoa. "Maybe if you were a feather dragon."

[carillons]

"I could be an archaeopteryx!" she crows.

[alicornucopia]

"What's that?" asks Shura.

[carillons]

"It's a like this," says Kalavar, shifting.

[alicornucopia]

"Looks like a bird to me!" says Nicoa.

[carillons]

"It's a dinosaur sort of!" says Kalavar.

[alicornucopia]

"But it looks like a bird," Shura says.

[carillons]

"It's like the first bird there ever was or something," says Kalavar, draping her long feathered tail over Helen's shoulder.

[alicornucopia]

"Wow!" says Shura. "I guess there weren't witches around then, huh?"

[carillons]

"Nope!" says Helen. "But there were dinosaurs and stuff!"

[alicornucopia]

"I think lots of dinosaurs were too big."