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[her_imperial_radiance]

Harley is seven, and he and Elspeth are hanging out in the Québec capital (because the rest of the Golden Coven is doing so), and as is usual in capitals with major wolf villages, she, he, and Jacob stay in village quarters during this time.

The capital as a whole moves less often than it once did, now that people can readily teleport to other sites to handle things there; this is the first time in Harley's life that they've been to Québec for anything other than a brief visit, so it's the first time he's seen the Imperial Alpha house in which Jacob, his imprint, and her fosterling are entitled to live.

They have neighbors. One of these is a seven-year-old puppy boy, who is currently making a snowfort.

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[pythbox]

"Nah," he shrugs.

[alicornucopia]

"My dad used to move around with the Coven but he stopped after he met Mom."

[pythbox]

"Did your mom not like it?"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah. We travel plenty, just we always come back to the same place." He gestures at the slain dragon.

[pythbox]

"Elsie goes around with the Coven," says Harley. "And sometimes she takes me places where they aren't, and then we go back again. I like it, it's fun."

[alicornucopia]

"Mom and Dad met at Burning Man and now we all go every year."

[pythbox]

"What's Burning Man?"

[alicornucopia]

"It's a bunch of people and art and stuff in a kind of a dust desert! It's fun and nobody cares if you run around naked."

[pythbox]

"Cool!" says Harley. "That sounds awesome, I wanna go to it."

[alicornucopia]

"You should totally come! It's in summertime. You'd have to get Princess Elspeth to take you though."

[pythbox]

"She would, I bet! She takes me places a lot!"

[alicornucopia]

"That's really cool," says Zeus. "Does she magic you there?"

[pythbox]

"Yeah!"

[alicornucopia]

"Lucky, we have to go places in cars or buses or planes."

[pythbox]

"What are those like?" wonders Harley. "I've never been in them!"

[alicornucopia]

"They're dumb, you just sit in them and you have to be quiet and not kick the seat and sometimes they make me throw up."

[pythbox]

"That is dumb," says Harley. "Somebody should fix it!"

[alicornucopia]

"Dad says when the Masquerade is fiiiiinally over we can start having magic stuff even to go places like Burning Man where regular humans will see, but it's not quite yet."

[pythbox]

Harley shrugs.

"A rollercoaster made me throw up once, but at least rollercoasters are fun."

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah! I like them. Planes are even faster, so it should be funner, but you're all boxed up."

[pythbox]

"Maybe somebody'll make better planes," Harley says optimistically.

[alicornucopia]

"They're faster than they used to be, anyway, it used to be it would take like all day to get from here to Black Rock City but now it's just a couple hours once you're on the plane."

[pythbox]

"That's a start!"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah." They're starting to run out of snow to make the village; Zeus starts patting down the spaces between them into roads.

[pythbox]

Harley busies himself scuplting further details onto the houses. They can have little roofs! With tiny, tiny icicles!