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"Awww," sighs Kerron.

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"Only 'many'?"

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"Well, some of them are probably not going to be invited to wake up from the catacombs, at least not anytime soon. I can't imagine Her Majesty conferring consciousness voluntarily on Chelsea or Jane."

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"Because...?"

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"Jane hurt the Princess and Chelsea went around snip-snipping people's affection for one another, including said Princess's. And unlike Addy, they don't have so much benign use or tractable personalities."

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"Gotcha," she says again.

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"Of course, since we determined that you're from Aurum originally, they might already have woken," says Nathan thoughtfully. "Her Majesty'll probably have Jane check up on that and put them on the 'no-fly list'."

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"Ooh, flying, I wanna fly, where's Mummy, she'll turn me into a bird I bet," says Kerron, bouncing up and down on Nathan's shoulders.

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"She's busy," says Eights.

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"But I want her! I wanna turn into a bird."

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"I have some coins, kiddo, I can turn you into a bird," snorts Nathan. "What kinda bird?"

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"A flying kind! A - a hawk. A blue hawk!"

And presently he is a blue hawk, and he laughs and starts teaching himself to fly rather ably.
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Eights giggles.

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"So that's my kid," Nathan says. "It has now been much less time since you have seen a child."

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She cracks up.

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"Rumor has it," observes Nathan, "that you want to get bit again. Isn't the vampire one of the Joker in there? Did he not oblige this interest?"

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"Sure he did," she says cheerfully. "But it's not like wanting him to bite me and wanting you to bite me are mutually exclusive."

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"True. Kerron's sleep cycle will probably figure it's time for him to crash for the night in spite of this being Mars on another world at some point in the near future, shall I find you thenabouts?"

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"Sounds like a plan," says Eights.

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"WATCH MEEEEE, DADDY," Kerron hollers, figuring out how to dive and pull up from said dive at the last moment halfway across the pavilion.

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"It is apparently not right this minute," laughs Nathan quietly. "That's wonderful, kiddo!" he calls to his son.

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Eights giggles and pats Nate on the shoulder.

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It is some fifteen minutes later when Kerron divebombs his father, sits on his shoulder, and starts snoring loudly.

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Nathan peers at him for a moment, then gets a square out of the coin bowls, conjures a perch, and transfers hawk-Kerron thereto.

He winks at Eights.
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