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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.
truthwright
carillons
Helen listens, but there aren't any numbers, or any words she vaguely sort of recognizes. Or any goddesses.
She waits to see if they have found him or not.
She waits to see if they have found him or not.
truthwright
She hardly has time to get comfy; only about five minutes after the spell was cast, a raven flies in the window and turns smoothly into a naked witch.
carillons
Helen jumps up and claps her hands. "Petaal!" she exclaims. "You got unlost!"
Kalavar launches herself from the back of Helen's chair into Petaal's arms.
Kalavar launches herself from the back of Helen's chair into Petaal's arms.
truthwright
"He's back at the hotel, button," says Petaal, cuddling the now chincilla-shaped Kalavar. "I'll fly you back, c'mon."
carillons
It's a much shorter flight back, for some reason. Maybe Petaal's cloudpine is faster. Anyway, after only a few minutes Helen can see the city in the distance.
carillons
The first Helen knows of this, the branch on which she sits starts to fall out of the sky. She twists around and sees a blur of flame where Petaal should be.
truthwright
The flame unblurs - she's a peregrine falcon, diving to catch the falling branch - she's a witch again, clinging to the back of the cloudpine while Helen clings to the front, and their flight levels out.
"You okay, button?" she says shakily.
"You okay, button?" she says shakily.
truthwright
Petaal angles the branch up to regain lost altitude.
"Somebody's trying to kill me," she says. "But I'm very immortal."
"Somebody's trying to kill me," she says. "But I'm very immortal."
The witches are in flight, now, but they won't catch up if Petaal continues to make forward progress.
truthwright
Especially since Petaal's branch is considerably augmented.
They land in front of the hotel - Petaal brought enough silk with her to cover one problem area, and assumed the appropriate witch shape, so no one gives them excessive trouble while they go up to their room.
They land in front of the hotel - Petaal brought enough silk with her to cover one problem area, and assumed the appropriate witch shape, so no one gives them excessive trouble while they go up to their room.