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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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Kesathi is a huggy creature. She demonstrates this now.
"It's probably worth checking with a couple other cursebreakers, but if they say the same thing, I don't know what else we can do," says Ranata.
"It's probably worth checking with a couple other cursebreakers, but if they say the same thing, I don't know what else we can do," says Ranata.
Ranata delegates hugging to Charlie and starts calling other clans.
He is.
The first foreign cursebreaker declines to second-guess Rinda at all. The second listens to the symptoms and the circumstances, asks whether Kas happens to smell of mace, and eventually concludes that he cannot be helped. The third's phone is answered by her son-in-law, who says that she's going to be spending the next six months on a retreat in the Alps and will not be speaking to anyone until the end of same.
Ranata puts her phone away.
"Not much sense in waiting," she murmurs.
The first foreign cursebreaker declines to second-guess Rinda at all. The second listens to the symptoms and the circumstances, asks whether Kas happens to smell of mace, and eventually concludes that he cannot be helped. The third's phone is answered by her son-in-law, who says that she's going to be spending the next six months on a retreat in the Alps and will not be speaking to anyone until the end of same.
Ranata puts her phone away.
"Not much sense in waiting," she murmurs.
Ranata kisses her forehead. "I'm not sure what will get through the ice. It's probably better if you don't watch."
"No, sweetie. Stay here with Charlie, okay?"
Charlie holds Helen securely.
Charlie holds Helen securely.
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"Please?" she says. "I want to see. Even if it's going to be scary and awful. Not seeing would be worse, because then it would be scary and awful and I wouldn't know—" She clings to Charlie and presses her face against his shoulder.
"I don't want you having that image in your head, Helen," says Ranata.
"She's right," Charlie opines.
"She's right," Charlie opines.
"Stay put," says Ranata, and she leaves.
Charlie holds onto her. Kesathi wraps her forepaws around Kalavar and nuzzles her.
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Kalavar turns into a flea and hops away, and turns into a dragon and launches herself into the air, flying after Ranata. She can't get very far, but she pulls as hard as she can, even though Helen is now crying hysterically.
"Helen, honey," says Charlie. "Looking won't help. Kalavar, come back - sit down - just wait. It'll be over soon."
"We said no, Helen," Charlie says.
Ranata is producing footsteps.
And the sound of a dagger unsheathing.
And an apprehensive sigh -
And the sound of ice shattering.
Ranata is producing footsteps.
And the sound of a dagger unsheathing.
And an apprehensive sigh -
And the sound of ice shattering.
"Oh, thank goddesses all," says Ranata, sitting heavily down on the ground.
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"They wouldn't let me see!" says Helen, the words inaudible to Charlie, unless he can hear her all the way from where Kas and Ranata are. "I'm with Charlie—Granatee, bring him here!"