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 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.

[pythbox]

Harley pinches him.

[alicornucopia]

"Ow-" The exclamation is cut off by abrupt refloofing. [Okay cool let's go home! And HOLD ON this time!]

[pythbox]

"I will!" he promises, climbing back onto Zeus's floofy back.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus makes a much gentler lope over the river, and trots, fast but not blindingly so, back towards the village. [I can smell everything,] he remarks. [It's pretty amazing.]

[pythbox]

"Ooh, what stuff can you smell?"

[alicornucopia]

[Everything! You and the trees and myself and the water and all the other plants and even some village stuff even way out here. I think someone's making something with pineapple in it.]

[pythbox]

[I like pineapple!]

[alicornucopia]

[Me too! We can have some when we go home, I'm hungry.]

[pythbox]

[Awesome.]

[alicornucopia]

They arrive home. Zeus hangs out in the front yard for a while, trying to figure out how to defloof, and even when he manages it, his mother doesn't want him near the knicknacks till he has himself under better control; this means picnic. It involves pineapple.

[pythbox]

It also involves hug! Lots of hug.

[alicornucopia]

Hug.

Zeus's father presents him with a magnetic uniform, in Imperial pack brown.

It hangs loose on him, but he'll grow. (He's eating a ridiculous amount, more than when he was just a puppy.)

[pythbox]

Harley noms on pineapple and giggles at Zeus in his uniform.

[alicornucopia]

"I'll get bigger!" says Zeus, fiddling with one of the magnets.

[pythbox]

"Yeah, and then you won't look as funny, so I better enjoy it while I can!"

[alicornucopia]

Zeus sticks out his tongue at Harley.

[pythbox]

Harley giggles.

[alicornucopia]

Om nom nom nom nom picnic, oops, floof, wait wait wait, unfloof, snap uniform back on, om nom nom nom.

[pythbox]

This description misses a vital step! The step is 'be hugged'. It goes between floof and unfloof.

[alicornucopia]

Very well; amendment accepted. [You are super huggy,] Zeus remarks fondly while hugging is ongoing.