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[shesepankh]

Saturday morning sees Bella with her notebooks about magic all in her knapsack, her medallion safety-pinned by its chain to her bra just in case she trips the wrong way, waiting with Charlie for pickup for the Avalon trip.

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[castmyown]

Darren giggles a little, himself, happy to have made her laugh. She has a lovely laugh.

[shesepankh]

"But," she replies when she's caught her breath, "the idea of the reading-to-cats type initiatives, as I understand it, is that the cats are nonjudgmental and helps the kids build confidence in their skills. Cats falling asleep isn't necessarily counterproductive to that."

[castmyown]

"But what if they fall asleep on the children and the kids can never move again? It's not worth the risk, Bella!"

[shesepankh]

"I imagine the cats will get hungry or thirsty eventually."

[castmyown]

"How long will that take, Bella? How long must the children suffer under the wrath of the dozing cats?"

[shesepankh]

"Possibly hours. It will teach them patience as well as reading skills! Everybody wins!"

[castmyown]

"Except the children, what if their parents show up and they can't go with them because they're trapped?"

[shesepankh]

"The parents are adults and should have already learned patience, you see." Then she snaps her fingers in sudden remembrance - "Oh, and Charlie didn't turn up anything about weird fires in the region, make of that what you will I suppose."

[castmyown]

"There aren't any strange, horrific fires, at least."

Except there goes a potential lead for what the heck is after Bella.

[shesepankh]

"Not in such a pattern that the police of Forks know anything. There could still be fires and the fire department hasn't suspected arson because arsonists aren't usually lava monsters, hence no police involvement."

A plate of bread! How lovely. Bella butters some and noms it.

[castmyown]

Darren raises an eyebrow at the casual discussion of lava monsters, but he won't comment on it. "True," he agrees. "But I was trying to look on the bright side."

Bread! Darren has some, too. Nom nom nom.

[shesepankh]

"Fair enough. I'm kind of stumped about what else to try, honestly, which isn't a nice position."

[castmyown]

"No, it isn't. I suppose there's just - not much we can do except wait, and prepare."

[shesepankh]

Bella nods.

"And maybe not go flying again," she says regretfully.

[castmyown]

Darren looks quite sad. "Probably only in certain places, yeah. Seattle, for example."

[shesepankh]

"Yeah, not just a casual thing near here. And Seattle might be a little too close to the airport for comfort, how much do you find that matters?"

[castmyown]

"I meant in the warehouse we visited before," says Darren, amused.

[shesepankh]

"Oh. The ceiling's high enough to be safe? I'd be worried about running into it. And about undue attention, although I guess that part I can avoid."

[castmyown]

"Wings only, and yeah, Savannah checked the ceiling and you can tell where it is if you get close to it."

[shesepankh]

"All right then, remind me next time we're there. Since the resident magi are useless and the library nearly as bad I might remember by myself, though.

[castmyown]

Darren snickers. "There could have been entirely helpful magi present, we just didn't meet them."

[shesepankh]

"They're not helpful enough to have lemonade stands that read 'actually worthwhile information about magic, twenty-five cents'."

[castmyown]

"They could be out of lemonade. There could be a lemon shortage, you don't know!"

[shesepankh]

"I was referring to the stand as being lemonadey in an architectural and not a flavorish way."

[castmyown]

"Well, okay, ask yourself this. If you had ultimate magical power and there are several projects to do... Would you run a stand giving out magic parlor tricks for quarters?"