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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[alicornucopia]

Zeus flops onto the ground. [But you could've died if you weren't immortal!]

[pythbox]

"But I am immortal," he says, "and I didn't die anyway, I just broke some bones, Elsie fixed me up fine, it was fun, I'm fine, it's fine!"

[alicornucopia]

Zeus can make some very impressively whiny noises in wolf form.

[pythbox]

Harley gives him scritches. It just seems like the thing to do.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus lays his massive head down on the ground and accepts scritches, making dismayed whuffly sounds.

[pythbox]

"Awwwwwwww," says Harley. "I'm sorry you got scared."

[alicornucopia]

[How was it fun?]

[pythbox]

"I liked the jumping over the river part! And I've never been hurt that bad before, it was really - itself. I think I wanna do it again," he says consideringly. "But not with you if you're gonna get scared." Snuggle-hug!

[alicornucopia]

[You wanna do it again?] asks Zeus incredulously.

[pythbox]

Harley giggles. "Yeah."

[alicornucopia]

[You are a weirdo. I know I'd heal with or without magic if I got beat up like that and I still don't wanna try it.]

[pythbox]

"I am a weirdo!" he agrees happily.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus whuffs out wolf-warm air in Harley's direction.

After a moment, he unfloofs and he's just himself, maybe a little taller already, lounging naked on the forest floor.

[pythbox]

Harley giggles.

"Aww, no more floof," he says. "Can I still hug you?"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah," sighs Zeus, sitting up. Wolves are, of necessity, pretty casual about nudity.

[pythbox]

Hugs!

[alicornucopia]

Hugs!

"So uh," says Zeus, "I don't really know how to change on purpose yet? So if I don't figure it out at about when we wanna go home we need to call Dad, or the Princess, to come get us."

[pythbox]

"Okay," shrugs Harley.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus sets about Trying To Floof On Purpose.

He does not get anywhere, although he makes some entertaining faces while he fails at it.

[pythbox]

Harley laughs at him. In a friendly, affectionate sort of way.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus shoves him in the shoulder, not hard. "You don't have to figure it out," he snorts.

[pythbox]

"Nope! I get to watch you do it. And it's hilarious," he says, grinning.

[alicornucopia]

"Right now I'm trying to be floofy, not hilarious," snorts Zeus. He chews on his lip, trying to replicate the mental state he occupied right before he floofed the first time. "...This is hard."

[pythbox]

"Yeah, I bet!" says Harley.

[alicornucopia]

"Mrrr. Hmm. Can you, like, pinch me or something?" Zeus holds out his arm.