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One of the most awkward things about being the leader of the host is that Isabella has to issue assignments to people who are or have been in positions of authority over her. Delilah knows enough about what needs doing to keep herself occupied with useful errands when she isn't explicitly enjoying her retirement, but Rinnah is another story; she doesn't quite grasp that sometimes her daughter wants to talk to her for non-social reasons, might really just mean to talk to her to send her a hundred miles west and pray for rain.
This is how Rinnah winds up with the privilege of taking her eldest granddaughter on her first weather intercession.
(Rinnah was told about magic and worlds and Jovah a month prior, and absorbed all this information with admirable calmness, and proceeded to behave as though none of it makes a whit of difference - which Isabella has not prodded at, since of course this is optimal for secrecy.)
Rinnah knocks on Damaris's door, in her flying leathers, grinning from ear to ear.
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"Okay!" says Damaris. She thanks the villagers for their pastries and juice, and follows her grandmother into the sky.
"What do you think of doing weather intercessions?" Rinnah wants to know.
Rinnah laughs.
Eventually they reach the Eyrie again, and Rinnah scoops up Damaris and carries her back to her grandparents' quarters. "Guess who's brought rain!" she calls cheerfully to Charles.
"I'm going to guess," says Charles, looking up from his book, "that it was Damaris!"
"I'm going to guess," says Charles, looking up from his book, "that it was Damaris!"
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"It was meeeee," she laughs. "And the villagers gave me juice and pastries!"
"That's because you helped them, so they were kindly disposed," says Charles.
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"I want to help everyone," Damaris declares. "So they will all give me food."
"If everyone gave you food, and you ate it all, you would burst," laughs Rinnah.
"Maybe not, but probably best not to live like she'll rescue you from every silly thing you could do," says Charles.
"So you want to live a life of doing silly things and having your mom fix it?" asks Charles.
Charles shakes his head but makes no further comment.
"In a way, everyone in Samaria already gives you food," Rinnah says. "Taxes go to support the Eyrie, and everyone pays them."
"In a way, everyone in Samaria already gives you food," Rinnah says. "Taxes go to support the Eyrie, and everyone pays them."
"Pastries are pretty yummy," Rinnah says conspiratorially. "What do you think, is he maybe just jealous because he's never gotten pastries from doing intercessions?"
Charles snorts.
Charles snorts.
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"Maybe so!" says Damaris. "It's okay, Grandpa! I'll give you pastries for being a good grandpa."
"He is a very good grandpa, and deserves pastries!" agrees Rinnah.
Charles laughs, and hugs his granddaughter.
Charles laughs, and hugs his granddaughter.
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She hugs him back.
The next time pastries are available, she finds her grandpa and gives him one.
The next time pastries are available, she finds her grandpa and gives him one.
He takes a moment to remember the significance, but then he takes it, and laughs, and hugs her again.
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