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Renée is gone in the morning, a pot of maple oatmeal for the girls and Trouble cooling on the stove and a note on the fridge, she's going to be gone all day on a day trip to Tucson with her friends.
Andi wakes up first. Bella's not far behind.
pandion
Andi learns so many things about pigeons! She didn't know that there were this many things to know about pigeons.
palmofyourhand
Babs offers them all some more cookies. And tea.
Ethan engages her in conversation about the tea.
Ethan engages her in conversation about the tea.
And eventually:
"These cookies are great, but I think I need something more substantial - like lunch. Who else wants lunch?"
"These cookies are great, but I think I need something more substantial - like lunch. Who else wants lunch?"
aeskhyne
"Sounds good to me," says Trouble. "I know this great place, I bet we can get there from here."
palmofyourhand
"You are a neverending fountain of restaurant recommendations," says Ethan. "All right, I'm for it."
aeskhyne
"Lunch," says Trouble, "is this way."
He leads them to a tiny decrepit-looking place that serves absolutely delicious food.
He leads them to a tiny decrepit-looking place that serves absolutely delicious food.
aeskhyne
"I just kind of wander around looking for them," he laughs. "There's not much to it. You just have to be willing to give 'em a chance."
Lunch, being so delicious, goes pretty quick. And then home.
Bella locks the door, makes sure all the curtains are still in place over all the windows, and says, "All right, who wants to practice being pigeons?"
Bella locks the door, makes sure all the curtains are still in place over all the windows, and says, "All right, who wants to practice being pigeons?"
pandion
"I morphed the butterfly so many times. I guess I can do the pigeon once but I don't want to work on anything fancy, okay?"
Bella and Andi are already in snug clothes and have learned to morph them. The others are not. "Do you three want some amount of privacy? We can include clothes but it takes a little practice."
"Hmm -" Bella peers down the stairwell into the basement. "I think there's enough room for pigeon wingspan, if you want to go down here - or we could just have Andi go first and then demorph and open and close doors for us as necessary."