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Aurin holds his mother's hand as she leads him from the street to his aunt and uncle's house. He's been here only a couple of times, and can't remember most of them distinctly; they're sort of awkwardly related, his dead father's half-brother and the wife thereof. But now they have a baby parunia, and that means there is a dragon related to Aurin who is not too far from his age, only thirty-one years younger. This is apparently the sort of relation that it will be particularly enriching for Aurin to meet. They can do this now instead of waiting a month, because parunias don't die when they're babies; this one is safe, unlike the miscellaneous cousins on his mother's side he's never met because they are all in too much danger to get attached to (and have all succumbed to that danger). So here they are. Even though it was a very long flight and he couldn't ride his mother for takeoff and landing when she had to be a heron, only for the middle part.
Alys knocks on the door.
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"Well - can you stop?"
"Dunno," he says. "If I could, I would, wouldn't I?" He does not sound sure of this.
"Would you?" wonders Finnah. "Or would you keep being sad for no reason in case it was eventually interesting?"
"It's not very interesting so far," he says. "Nothing's very interesting right now. I don't even care that much about Mom's scoot." Sigh.
"Even though it's shiny and fast?" Finnah clarifies.
"Even though!" he exclaims sadly.
"Wow, that's pretty bad. What about people, are people interesting? Is being a goat interesting? Is candy interesting?"
(Finnah thinks candy is very interesting.)
(Finnah thinks candy is very interesting.)
Mial turns into a goat, and stays that way a moment, and shakes his head, and turns into a human again.
"I could try some candy and see if it's fun I guess."
"I could try some candy and see if it's fun I guess."
"My friend from flag dance gave me raspberry caramels for last Lufelsis and I still have some. You can have one," says Finnah magnanimously.
"Thanks," he says. He even smiles a little bit.
Finnah gets him a caramel and watches him expectantly.
Mial nibbles the caramel.
"It's tasty," he says.
"It's tasty," he says.
"But are you still sad for no reason?"
"Yeah," he sighs. "But I'm sad for no reason with candy and I think that's better than sad for no reason with no candy."
"That was not the point, though," says Finnah.
"Yeah."
He finishes the candy.
"Thanks anyway."
He finishes the candy.
"Thanks anyway."
"What else should we try?"
"I dunno."
If Aurin were here he might throw Mial out a window, but Mial is not going to suggest that.
If Aurin were here he might throw Mial out a window, but Mial is not going to suggest that.
It doesn't seem to have occurred to Finnah, although she does say, "Have you flown?"
He hesitates, then shakes his head.
"You could try it." She turns into a cardinal illustratively.
He gazes at cardinal-Finnah.
"It's so much work though," he sighs.
"It's so much work though," he sighs.
She turns into a human so as to eloquently look more skeptically at him.
"Really?"
"Really?"
"I don't really feel like moving."
"Uh, yeah, that happens when you don't fly, dummy."