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After leaving the park, Leo gets back into his conveniently tinted-windowed car. (Functional, but not conspicuously nice; this is Chicago.)

"Well," he says wryly, "that was fun."

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doing-the-right-thing

"Yes. A dire insult."

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"Well, you're forgiven."

doing-the-right-thing

"Excellent. Lakewards ho!"

The Beetle sputters to life and gamely makes for the lakeside.

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"Are these normal vehicle sounds?" wonders Milo, regarding the sputtering.

doing-the-right-thing

"Not so much. My car tries her best."

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"Your car is female? Is this rhetorical femininity, in the manner of a boat, or...?"

doing-the-right-thing

"Much like a boat, yes. More in the sense that I wanted a pronoun and 'it' sounded demeaning."

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"Fair enough."

doing-the-right-thing

Driving, driving.

Driving.

Woods!

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Woods! They hardly look horrible at all.

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They are lovely woods!

Harry parks at the treeline and leads his merry band along, carrying the pizza box and a pocket ritual kit.

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Milo, with Cath on his shoulder, traipses after Harry.

The woods don't look horrible, but they do look... off in some subtle way. It's weird. Still, it's soothing to be somewhere that he could at least theoretically pretend was home if he tried.

doing-the-right-thing

They reach a clearing.

"Excellent! And no view of the lakehouse." Harry starts arranging things such as symbols and piles of scented dust around the pizza box.

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Milo stands well back and watches curiously.

Feral Orphan

no-return

Buttercup does likewise.

doing-the-right-thing

After some whispering into the wind, a glowing pink-haired faerie flies in. He looks suspiciously at Harry.

"Wizard! You summon me openly?"

"Yep. D'you want pizza?"

The pixie looks incredulous. "Yes?"

"Do you have friends who want pizza?"

"I have friends, yes, and obviously?"

"I'll pay them in pizza if they'll agree to talk to that small man and his cat until we agree to go."

"Done and done and done! I'll gather friends." He buzzes off.

Feral Orphan

no-return

...Buttercup appears to be having a cuteness meltdown over there.

first-and-final

Milo is more intrigued than endeared, but he is not wholly immune to the cuteness of tiny pizza-obsessed fae.

doing-the-right-thing

After a while, a small horde of pixies converge on their location. Harry moves back to join the others as the beasts descend gruesomely upon the pizza. "I saw a full swarm do that to a cow once," he notes. "Piranhas, nothing."

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"Um. I see," says Milo.

Feral Orphan

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"It's adorable," says Buttercup.

doing-the-right-thing

The pixies, once they have skeletonized the pizza, turn to Milo. Their ringleader, the larger one from before, clears his throat.

"We're supposed to talk to you."

"Hello!" squeaks one. "Pizza!"

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"Hello," says Milo.

"(I'm told you might be able to understand me,)" says Cath.

doing-the-right-thing

"Was there a thing you were going to say that wasn't 'hello'? If that's all, we can be on our way and thank you for the pizza."

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