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Grendyne groans and starts pulling on her boots when the alarm goes off. Again. She quick-marches to the broom hangar, sits on her machine and is handed a plethora of loaded weapons by attentive corporals.
"Two flyers in one day? They're getting way too common."
"It's worse," the commander informs them, "South Karlsland got hit with three at once. We're taking Lytee's express and sleeping there. You can sit out if you absolutely need to, but Freya's still recovering so we could use you as a comms relay."
"No, I'll come. I just reserve the right to complain about it."
The 42nd United Forces Witch Wing takes off, bracing to fight yet another city-destroying monster, and assembles into a perfect synchronized formation as Lytee charges her teleport power.
...This is not South Karlsland wilderness.
Near the Golden Coven capital, in Aurum
Near Savarasse, in Thilanushinyel
Near Whately Academy
With Unbitwise
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witchwatcher
witchwatcher
[You're welcome. If there's nothing else for now, I'll be taking a nap.]
witchwatcher
She actually manages to pass the entire return trip, including the drive to the wolf village, between her nap, chatting with Kelly and Shawn, and musing on power combos.
And then they are back in Florida.
"I'm glad you don't get airsick," Shawn says. "If you want to move around with the capitol you'd be on planes a lot. Do you want to do that? Or we could go to Quebec or Italy or Forks. Or wherever, but those are the places with permanent wolf villages."
"I'm glad you don't get airsick," Shawn says. "If you want to move around with the capitol you'd be on planes a lot. Do you want to do that? Or we could go to Quebec or Italy or Forks. Or wherever, but those are the places with permanent wolf villages."
witchwatcher
"Of the four, Quebec or following the capital appeals the most. Do you have any preferences about it that are not directly linked to mine?"
"I was never really good at Italian. Or French but I think the Quebec wolves don't go into town as much? I was gonna follow the capital but that was when it was just me, mostly the imprints don't. I mean you can, Elspeth's an imprint."
witchwatcher
"I don't really mind following the capital if all of them are about as nice as this one. I'm not attached to a country here, or to having a house. I'll have more chances to meet interesting witches that way too. So following the capital it is."
"Okay," says Shawn.
witchwatcher
She takes care of a couple of outstanding chores, namely getting a phone and starting the process of officially existing in the US.
Then, "I think I'd like to see if riding a wolf is as fun as riding a broom."
Then, "I think I'd like to see if riding a wolf is as fun as riding a broom."
"Ooh! Okay, but I can just go around the village and up and down the beach. There's more room some of the other places."
witchwatcher
"Point in favor of Forks or Quebec, then. But a few miles ought to be enough for now. I'll carry your uniform if we don't just come right back here."
"Okay."
So down to the beach they go, and he floofs, and crouches down to let her get on, wagging his tail.
So down to the beach they go, and he floofs, and crouches down to let her get on, wagging his tail.
witchwatcher
She gathers uniform bits, then leaps on top with a half-second of extra strength and grabs sturdy-seeming bundles of fur.
[Ready. Slow at first- I won't fare as badly as a regular human if you accidentally send me flying, but it still wouldn't be pleasant.]
[Ready. Slow at first- I won't fare as badly as a regular human if you accidentally send me flying, but it still wouldn't be pleasant.]
[I'll be careful!]
He trots along the sand sedately.
He trots along the sand sedately.
witchwatcher
[Okay, it's not nearly as hard to hold on as I expected. I was just a tad worried 'cause I can't use magic to stick to you like a broom. You can keep speeding up unless I say otherwise.]
[Okay.]
He accelerates, turns when they get to the fence, and speeds up some more.
He accelerates, turns when they get to the fence, and speeds up some more.
witchwatcher
[Yeah, this is fun. It seems faster when you're so close to the ground.]
She'll keep having fun even on the relatively limited running area until he gets tired or hungry, unless that time is several hours from now.
She'll keep having fun even on the relatively limited running area until he gets tired or hungry, unless that time is several hours from now.
He runs her back and forth for a couple hours but then: [It's mealtime! Ashleigh says it's pulled pork!]
witchwatcher
[Yum.]
So they go have food, and Gren settles into the rhythm of the village and does miscellabeous work and follows when the capital moves until about a month later...
So they go have food, and Gren settles into the rhythm of the village and does miscellabeous work and follows when the capital moves until about a month later...
witchwatcher
...When eleven more witches appear around her in the capital compound, holding various antique weapons.
Shawn, who had been explaining the concept of electric guitar, interrupts himself mid-word to reflexively transform and stand in front of and over Gren, growling at the scariest-looking cluster of witches.
witchwatcher
One of them starts swinging a sword at him, but before they can do much of anything else, Gren shouts, "Woah, woah, STAND DOWN!"
The swordswoman arrests her own swing, they lower their weapons. One asks, "What the hell's going on, Gren, where even are we?
"Really long story. Ten second version version is I started working for some benevolent vampires and the wolf is my bodyguard."
The swordswoman arrests her own swing, they lower their weapons. One asks, "What the hell's going on, Gren, where even are we?
"Really long story. Ten second version version is I started working for some benevolent vampires and the wolf is my bodyguard."
When she says to stand down, Shawn interrupts his paw's swipe in Sword Witch's direction before it connects. But he stays wolf-shaped and he is Not Wagging At All.
An assortment of vampires, unarmed except for the whole being vampires thing, appear from both ends of the hallway.
An assortment of vampires, unarmed except for the whole being vampires thing, appear from both ends of the hallway.
witchwatcher
Various witches ask questions all at once. Grendyne Elspeths at them for a few seconds. They are still somewhat confused, but no longer feeling angry or thinking violent thoughts.
Sword lady says, "Jesus, I thought I'd be leading a rescue mission. Or a body-retreival. Sorry for the violent entry, everyone."
Sword lady says, "Jesus, I thought I'd be leading a rescue mission. Or a body-retreival. Sorry for the violent entry, everyone."
luminous_regnant
Shawn is too keyed up to defloof right now. He sits, though.
"As you can see," says Bella, "Gren is fine. I'm Empress Isabella Cullen of the Golden Empire. And you are all in my mindreading husband's range, which you may if you so choose stop by proceeding in that direction, down the stairs, and outside any direction you like for a mile."
"As you can see," says Bella, "Gren is fine. I'm Empress Isabella Cullen of the Golden Empire. And you are all in my mindreading husband's range, which you may if you so choose stop by proceeding in that direction, down the stairs, and outside any direction you like for a mile."