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]

"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.

[pythbox]

Harley cheerfully allows himself to be rescued up to the rest of the house.

The rest of the house contains more stuff! And a kitchen and bathrooms and so forth.

Also, outside, it is an asteroid.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus is fascinated by the visible curvature of the asteroid and runs around with wild abandon.

[pythbox]

Harley runs around right along with him! Running around on Aedyt's asteroid is fun.

[alicornucopia]

Wheeeee!

[pythbox]

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[pumpkin_pie]

Eventually, Aedyt appears.

"If you're done rescuing each other from me, I have your weapons and some snacks," she announces.

[alicornucopia]

"Snacks!" exclaims Zeus approvingly. "Yes. That's next."

[pumpkin_pie]

"C'mon inside!"

Snacks are served in the kitchen. There are yummy muffins!

[pythbox]

Harley is enthused about the muffins.

[alicornucopia]

Om nom nom. Zeus eats like a puppy, which is to say a lot and enthusiastically.

[pythbox]

Harley cannot keep up in volume, but he can keep up in enthusiasm!

[pumpkin_pie]

And Aedyt can keep up in quantity of muffins.

[alicornucopia]

After they have demolished the muffins, Zeus says, "I want my arrow back."

[pumpkin_pie]

"Please do not fire it inside my house," says Aedyt, and she hands it to him.

[pythbox]

"I want my dagger!" says Harley.

[pumpkin_pie]

"Please do not stab anyone or anything that somebody might not want stabbed," says Aedyt, and she gives Harley the dagger.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus considers his instruction, and then fires the arrow at her house.

[pumpkin_pie]

It bounces harmlessly off a wall.

[alicornucopia]

He retrieves it and carries on playing with it.

The premier is fun, their costumes are adorable, some adults do appear tempted to give them free candy but none actually do, and -

Time passes.

Zeus is nine, ten, eleven, twelve and he goes down to the main compound and shakes hands with a secretary vampire.

He runs home in full fur, tongue lolling out of his mouth, and pushes the doorbell to Harley's house with his nose and sits back, wagging madly.

[pythbox]

Harley opens the door.

"Fluffy Zeus?!" he exclaims delightedly.