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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
"It's all over," Ranata says reassuringly. "If they hadn't acted alone, the Ontario queen wouldn't have turned them over so quickly."
It's not too long before this mess is well in the past and it is time for Helen to go up to the cloudpine forest and cut her first branch and learn to fly.
carillons
Well in the past but not entirely in the past; Helen has been more serious, more withdrawn, and even more dedicated to studying magic.
None of which makes her any less enthusiastic about her very first cloudpine.
None of which makes her any less enthusiastic about her very first cloudpine.
carillons
She spends some time looking at all the trees - they are beautiful trees, and worth looking at - before she finally starts inspecting the branches, and then picks one that is pretty and looks right, and cuts it from its tree.
carillons
Helen tries flying.
Flying works.
"Wheeeeeeeeeeeee," she says, zooming around Ranata in an only slightly wobbly circle.
Flying works.
"Wheeeeeeeeeeeee," she says, zooming around Ranata in an only slightly wobbly circle.
"It is!" agrees Ranata.
She leads Helen around in a series of maneuvers that will let her surreptitiously check for balance or steering issues.
She leads Helen around in a series of maneuvers that will let her surreptitiously check for balance or steering issues.
carillons
Her flying grandchild.
(Along the way, she listens for Kas and tells him that she cut herself her very own cloudpine branch and it is perfect and nice and she's flying and flying is the best thing. Petaal agrees that flying is super great.)
(Along the way, she listens for Kas and tells him that she cut herself her very own cloudpine branch and it is perfect and nice and she's flying and flying is the best thing. Petaal agrees that flying is super great.)
Flying is super great!
It is a long flight with plenty of opportunities for learning the finer points of the sport back to clan lands.
It is a long flight with plenty of opportunities for learning the finer points of the sport back to clan lands.
Ranata is good at teaching small witches how to fly!
Don't mind the occasional nostalgic expression on her face; they are soon cleared away by smiles.
Don't mind the occasional nostalgic expression on her face; they are soon cleared away by smiles.
carillons
Helen has so many smiles.
And the very second they get back and land, she has so many hugs.
And the very second they get back and land, she has so many hugs.