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Time goes by. Shura's mother lets her cut a cloudpine branch, and she and Helen go flying together.
Helen celebrates her eighth birthday by baking all her favourite people a cake again. And then she goes away with Kas, to Iceland and Russia and back by way of Alaska.
When they fly in, Kas on Petaal's cloudpine and Helen on her own, Helen is wearing blue jeans and a pink T-shirt.
Helen celebrates her eighth birthday by baking all her favourite people a cake again. And then she goes away with Kas, to Iceland and Russia and back by way of Alaska.
When they fly in, Kas on Petaal's cloudpine and Helen on her own, Helen is wearing blue jeans and a pink T-shirt.
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"Like - glue setting," says Nicoa. "I was fewer and fewer things, and then I was this thing."
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"Yeah, maybe," says Helen.
"I wonder why Petaal never settled," muses Kalavar. "I mean, because she's peculiar, but - why?"
"I wonder why Petaal never settled," muses Kalavar. "I mean, because she's peculiar, but - why?"
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"We don't know," says Shura.
"Maybe she isn't any things. Or she's kind of like in that book where there are aliens whose daemons settle but only to a color, not a shape. Except she's all kinds of colors," Nicoa says.
"Maybe she isn't any things. Or she's kind of like in that book where there are aliens whose daemons settle but only to a color, not a shape. Except she's all kinds of colors," Nicoa says.
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"Maybe she's all the things," says Helen. "Sometimes she's really strange things. She was a human with big fluffy bird wings once."
"They were soft," says Kalavar.
"They were soft," says Kalavar.
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"Actually having an unsettled daemon and being a grownup would be a pretty good superpower," muses Shura.
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"It would! But it'd be based on a true story, or at least a real person, like all the ones where the Shade-Dreamer does stuff."
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She shrugs.
"I dunno. I'm hungry; do you want to come see what there is to eat at Ranata's house?"
"I dunno. I'm hungry; do you want to come see what there is to eat at Ranata's house?"