Inkeri is over here, planting vegetables.

"Sooo," says Helen, "do you remember when we were talking about casting spells on the moon?"

Inkeri thinks, then nods.

"It turns out that on the moon, 'north' is where you think it is, if you're definite enough about it. If you're not sure, then spells that draw on the cardinal directions just don't work."

"Also," says Helen, "I've been to the moon."

Inkeri tilts her head the other way.

"There's a big, complicated explanation full of interesting secrets," she says. "Want to go to the moon and hear it?"

"You can take me to the moon?" asks Inkeri.

"I can take you to the moon!"

"Will I be alive there?"

"Yeah," laughs Helen, "I'm not going to take you to the moon and kill you, why would I do that?"

"I do not know how you survive on the moon," says Inkeri reasonably, "so I did not know if I could do the same thing."

"Special secret magic," Helen asserts.

Inkeri looks around, somewhat more interested in the moon than the diagram.

"You were going to explain interesting secrets?"

"Yeah," she says. "I'm just - kind of not sure where to start? Um, I'm the Shade-Dreamer's daughter. That's where Kas started when he told me, it kind of explains some things all by itself a little."

"Yes," she says. "That was big secret number one. Big secret number two: she had a lot of magic that isn't anything like witch magic, and she gave Kas some before he left. That's what he used to make me, and what I used to bring us here - it grants wishes, and it's nice about it, as long as you more or less know what you're doing. I would've been in trouble if I'd tried to go to the moon without thinking about air first, but Kas took me the first time and I could just copy what he did after that."

"Oh," says Inkeri, looking up at the sky.

"I took us to somewhere away from the Earth and the sun, but I could show you the Earth if you want," she says. "It's beautiful from up here."

"Yes, please."