québécois

[her_imperial_radiance]

The Golden Coven stays in Québec for one year.

When Harley is eight and a half, they start packing.

Zeus is inconsolable.

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[pumpkin_pie]

Aedyt scoops up Harley, snuggles him, and puts him down again.

"So is that all for you two?"

[alicornucopia]

"You have a lot of stuff," observes Zeus. "Can you make bow-and-arrows?"

[pumpkin_pie]

"Yes I can! The question is, will I regret it afterward?"

[alicornucopia]

"...No?" tries Zeus.

[pumpkin_pie]

"Then I will make you a bow and arrow."

[pythbox]

"I want a dagger!" says Harley.

[pumpkin_pie]

"I'm sure you do," says Aedyt.

[alicornucopia]

"Maid Marian has one!" defends Zeus. "He's being Maid Marian."

[pythbox]

"And I won't stab anybody with it," Harley says virtuously.

[pumpkin_pie]

"All right," says Aedyt. "I will make you guys some weapons. Do you want to watch?"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah," says Zeus, grinning.

[pumpkin_pie]

"Then you can!"

She makes Zeus a cute little bow with a cute little foam-headed arrow that he can fire at the walls, and Harley a cute little dagger, also with its sharp parts made of foam.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus immediately starts shooting at things.

[pumpkin_pie]

"Careful, please," says Aedyt.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus only shoots at non-fragile things.

On the other hand, his marksmanship is pretty terrible.

[pumpkin_pie]

The first time the arrow heads for something it probably shouldn't hit, it gets stuck in midair.

Aedyt serenely continues using her power to tweak the shape of Harley's Marian dagger.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus reaches for his arrow. When it won't go, he says, "It's stuck!"

[pumpkin_pie]

"Yes it is," says Aedyt. "And it's going to stay that way until you can take it somewhere with fewer fragile things it might accidentally break."

[alicornucopia]

"I can't take it anywhere. It's stuck," objects Zeus.

[pumpkin_pie]

"I will unstick it when I take you home."

[alicornucopia]

"Oh."

[pumpkin_pie]

Back to the dagger!

[alicornucopia]

Zeus shoots mime-arrows. He shoots them much more indiscriminately than he did with the foam one.

[pythbox]

Harley giggles.

[alicornucopia]

Presently Zeus has invented a game according to which he must rescue Maid Marian from the telekinetic witch who has stolen her dagger, and hauls Harley out of the basement of stuff in search of an escape route.