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Kas is sadder, after Inkeri's prophecy. And it gets worse as time goes on. The closer they get to Isabella's return, the more it hurts.
He tries to do the best he can for Helen regardless. Helen, in turn, hugs him a lot and doesn't fuss when he cries on her. They make a good team that way.
truthwright
telesonorous
"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."
telesonorous
Helen grins.
She closes her eyes and listens hard, making sure there's no one else around to see them disappear.
And then—
—they are on the moon, standing next to a perfectly straight arrow scratched in the dust.
"That's one of my north marks," she says, gesturing to it. "I made five in different places, and no three of them point to a single north pole; I checked."
She closes her eyes and listens hard, making sure there's no one else around to see them disappear.
And then—
—they are on the moon, standing next to a perfectly straight arrow scratched in the dust.
"That's one of my north marks," she says, gesturing to it. "I made five in different places, and no three of them point to a single north pole; I checked."
telesonorous
"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."
telesonorous
"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."
telesonorous
"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."
There is Earth. Inkeri admires it.
"When the Shade-Dreamer comes back like I prophesied, what's going to happen?"
"When the Shade-Dreamer comes back like I prophesied, what's going to happen?"
telesonorous
"I... really don't know," she says. "That's what Kas has been so depressed about, actually. He's always had a hard time with her being gone, and now he's having a hard time with knowing when she's going to be back and having to wait for it. And I've never met her or anything - Ranata's told me stories, and so has Kas, and of course there's about a million movies, but I don't really feel like she's someone I know."
telesonorous
"I don't know. Probably not. I can't imagine how she would; if there's yet another secret kind of magic that would tell her, I don't know what it is."
telesonorous
"I don't know," she says. "I can't help thinking... what if she doesn't like me?" She sighs, and looks up at the Earth. "I'd be okay. But I'd rather get along with her, and I don't know how to do that, or if I can even make a difference to it at all."
