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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[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.

[pythbox]

"I am!" Harley agrees, hugging him. "I like hugs. Hugs are nice."

[alicornucopia]

[They are,] agrees Zeus, and this is when he unfloofs.

[pythbox]

Mid-hug!

Okay, back to nomming.