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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.
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[Helen was in a park, I went to the bathroom, I came out, Helen wasn't in the park. Then somebody hit me with a death curse out of nowhere while I was looking for her. But I am extremely immortal, so it didn't put me down for long.]
[I'm going to need to tell the queen, and Helen should talk to her, too, can you bring her here as soon as you're both up to the trip?]
[All right. Please let me know right away if you learn anything else that could be a clue to who it was.]
[Or didn't think they'd be caught because her mother's not in evidence, I suppose,] says Ranata disgustedly.
It's about six hours later when a sudden shock of cold descends over Kas and Petaal, freezing them solid and stuck together.
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They are all asleep by then, so Helen doesn't notice until the next morning.
She shouts. She cries. She hugs the parts of Kas that are not too close to icy Petaal. She inventively boils the kettle and pours hot water over them. It freezes.
She curls up in bed with Kalavar as a fluffy viscacha, and she tries to think.
She wishes Ranata were here. Ranata could protect her from the scary witches, and maybe even fix what happened to Kas and Petaal, or bring them to the clan and find someone else who could.
She closes her eyes, and—listens...
She shouts. She cries. She hugs the parts of Kas that are not too close to icy Petaal. She inventively boils the kettle and pours hot water over them. It freezes.
She curls up in bed with Kalavar as a fluffy viscacha, and she tries to think.
She wishes Ranata were here. Ranata could protect her from the scary witches, and maybe even fix what happened to Kas and Petaal, or bring them to the clan and find someone else who could.
She closes her eyes, and—listens...
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"Ranata!" says Helen, putting her voice where her listening is. "Wake up, wake up! Something scary happened and I don't know what to do!"
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"Kas and Petaal froze all up," she says, sniffling, "and I don't know how to melt them, and the scary witches who tried to kill him might be coming for me again!"