"... Hm. I dunno. Maybe bug my brother to make a spell for it or something, or give it a shot myself. Or just dress up in something warm and not be a witch for a little while."

"Well, a coat won't help your daemon unless she hides in it with you. My Castarilan can do that but yours is a little big to try it."

"Then maybe some place warmer would be better, I guess. Sorry."

"Well, let me know if you work out a spell and we can go to Finland. Till then, Costa Rica it is."

She snickers. "Sure! Adarin's better at fancy spells, though. Bet if I throw the idea at him he'll jump on it like a starving man when he sees food and obsess over it for a while."

"If either of you works out a spell, anyway. I could cast something that would warm it up temporarily, but I don't know how to make it last. Maybe Isabella could come up with something better, she's very good at pivoting from existing spells into related ones."

"Aha! So I could potentially be immune to cold sometime in the future. Sounds fun, I hate wearing warm clothes. Can't move in them properly."

"I don't know how mortals do it, honestly. I'd go without the silks too if it wouldn't get me asked to move along or potentially arrested in any public place."

She giggles. "I feel like a huge puffball in scarves and coats and fancy fluffy hats and all that. Just poke me, and I'll fall over in a poof of fluff. It's ridiculous. Normal clothes I don't mind. Just the fluffy ones."

"One thing I have not ever tried but probably should one of these days is wearing mortal clothes."

"Some of 'em are comfy! Least mine are. I mean they're not stifling like the warm clothing normally, but they can be. Depends on what you wear."

"We can go shopping in Costa Rica."

"Pffff - sure! Whose money? I don't have any, guess I can nick it from my brother, but he doesn't have any here either."

"Oh, I don't mean buying things, I just mean trying things on. If you have to have something you do a little spell for the shopkeeper."

"Oooo! The favors deal, right. That's seriously great, money's a pain."

"Mortals seem to like it, and Isabella's probably going to work with money a bit to handle that - portal thing, but it seems like a lot of math to be doing for everyday, doesn't it?"

"Yeah, it sucks. Plus there's the added fun of what happens if other people get it - it's not tied to you, it's just money. So they can just take it and then you don't have it anymore and you're out of luck."

"Yes, exactly, my husband is a police officer and while we don't live in a high-crime town much of what he deals with is theft. Some shoplifting, but the thing that most upsets people is when their money is stolen."

"Right! So I just kind of ignore it unless I need it for something. But if I don't need it and can just work through favors... Well, all the better, in my opinion."

"I think you will enjoy being a pretend witch."

"I think I will, too! It's nice and straight-forward."

"We'll see what advice the queen has about passing. For all I know there's a little-known birth defect you can claim to have as far as the cold is concerned."

"Ha! Alright, that could work. How far away are we from getting to the queen, anyway?"

"Hours. I'm actually not going in a straight line - Isabella pointed me at Salt Lake City, which is farther south than we want to be, because I've been there and know the way. We can stop there and look at the pretty temple if you like. And the clan belongs to some kind of membership program that gets us admission into various zoos and things, of which Salt Lake City's zoo is one."

"Oooo. And I'm waiting for a translation spell anyway, so that's no rush. Pretty temples and zoos, sounds like something to see!"