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]

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

[pythbox]

Mid-hug!

Okay, back to nomming.

[alicornucopia]

Om nom nom. Zeus was a hungry puppy. Now he is a ravenous wolf. He will turn it all into floof and an extra two feet of height and lots of muscle over the next couple months.

(His mother is taking a lot of pictures of this picnic; wolves' parents do this in the time between first floof and the cessation of growth.)

[pythbox]

Nomty nom!

"Okay, I'm done," Harley announces. He curls up next to the picnic blanket.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus isn't done. He finishes the pineapple, and the whipped cream Demeter put on it, and the leftover hamburgers she warmed up for them, and the green beans. He doesn't even like green beans.

[pythbox]

"You don't even like green beans," observes curled-up Harley.

[alicornucopia]

"I'm really hungry," says Zeus. "I want pizza. Let's go get pizza."

[pythbox]

"Sure!"

[alicornucopia]

Zeus manages to floof on purpose, to be transportation to the village cafeteria. (The village doesn't have many of its own establishments, when they can just travel to the capital compound or farther to town, but it's full of wolves: it has a cafeteria.)

[pythbox]

Pizza is obtained! Harley does not eat it, but he derives great joy from watching Zeus do that.

[alicornucopia]

Zeus eats six slices of pizza. Then he is done. With pizza. He gets a bowl of ice cream after that.

[pythbox]

Harley giggles at him.

[alicornucopia]

"Now," says Zeus, when he finishes his ice cream, "I am not hungry anymore."

[pythbox]

"Are you sure?"

[alicornucopia]

"Well, I'll be hungry in an hour, but now, yeah."

[pythbox]

Harley laughs.

[alicornucopia]

"Come on, let's go see how much floofing sometimes messes up one on one basketball," suggests Zeus, "while I'm still not that much taller than you."

[pythbox]

"Okay!" he agrees, giggling.

[alicornucopia]

And off they go.