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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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That is good. That is the idea.
"The queen will find who did it," Ranata sighs.
"The queen will find who did it," Ranata sighs.
"She will."
The queen does in fact do this.
The Ontario queen is not interested in defending her subjects; they are flown onto Olympic ground, trussed up and gagged, their daemons tangled up in nets with them. (While not as traditional as bows and daggers, nets are sometimes used for things like this.)
"Are these those who harmed you?" the queen inquires of Helen and Kas.
The Ontario queen is not interested in defending her subjects; they are flown onto Olympic ground, trussed up and gagged, their daemons tangled up in nets with them. (While not as traditional as bows and daggers, nets are sometimes used for things like this.)
"Are these those who harmed you?" the queen inquires of Helen and Kas.
The accused are not given an opportunity to speak in their defense; there is always the risk of verse. The queen reads off the charges - kidnapping of an Olympic, interference-spell on an Olympic, attempted murder of a relative of an Olympic. She then sentences them to death. This is open to supervision.
The queen slits their throats. The associated birds dissolve into gold and vanish.
carillons
Helen turns to Kas and hugs him tight, hiding her face against his chest. Kalavar curls up in Petaal's arms as a blue-grey dragon with soft pebbled skin.
The queen sends someone to burn the bodies, clasps hands with Ranata in a sort of ceremonial acknowledgment that the damage to her family has been avenged, and departs.
"That is how we think they found you. It's a complicated kind of spell that makes little chances add up over a long time to get something - like making you cross their path so they could take you home," says Ranata quietly.
"Hardly anyone does them."
"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.
That's good! It is a time to be excited. Ranata flies her up to help her pick one out.