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[campanas]

Here, in a place where she is quite an unexpected sight, is:

an eight year old girl with brown-flecked white wings, looking dismayed and lost.

with Prime (Aestrix)

with Edie and Emily (Maggie)

with Gloria (Maggie)

with Gren (Rockeye)

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[witchwatcher]

"Well, it's not far. I'll go slow." She walks back toward the station and climbs on top of some kind of vaguely horse-sized wooden thing.

"Witches need a broom or something to fly. This isn't a broom, it's made specifically for Witches to fly on it, but we still call it a broom anyway." She lifts off and starts heading towards the castle at a sedate pace.

[campanas]

The little angel takes off and flies. She can do about forty miles an hour.

[witchwatcher]

Gren matches her speed.


The castle really isn't very far away at all. Gren flies around to the other side and lands in a big courtyard swarming with other people in uniforms. The people in uniforms look at the little angel curiously, but she's with Gren and Gren handles all the strange magic so they are not alarmed.

"I'm Grendyne, by the way. Forgot to introduce myself earlier. What's your name?"

[campanas]

"Pen-ni-nah," says Pen. "Pen."

[witchwatcher]

"Pen. I like that, it's pretty. We need to know who to teleport you to when Lytee's back. Your parents? And I'd like to know if there's anything dangerous on your world, or anything we shouldn't do, so we can be prepared for it."

[campanas]

"Um, can putting me in any place with Jane is fine. Should not do appear at home or someone maybe see. Maybe putting on space ship?"

[witchwatcher]

"She needs to put you at a person, not a place. But at Jane should work."

[campanas]

"...Jane lots places, which place putting? Do not much matter for where ending up but might matter to going."

[witchwatcher]

"...I have no idea. Jane is in lots of places at the same time?"

[campanas]

"Yeah. That why so good for putting places. Except she not here."

[witchwatcher]

"You, uh, probably want to think of someone else in case Lytee can't teleport to people who are in more than one place."

[campanas]

"Okay. Any Mommy in a more magic world fine. Rose maybe. Okay to magic where Rose."

[witchwatcher]

"What's this about any mommy? Have you just got a big family, or is it something else?"

[campanas]

"...Something else."

[witchwatcher]

"Well, I think you'll be back to Rose in a few hours. I have a little stuff to do. Paperwork. You can stay with me if you like, or I can try to find someone else to watch you? I want to warn you, though, if alarms like a bell go off you need to stay out of the way. They mean the Neuroi are coming and everyone here has to get ready to fight them. And if you hear alarms like a buzzing sound, you need to fly away as fast as you can. Unless you think your protection magic can stand up to the nastiest monsters we have here."

[campanas]

"Um, is pretty good magic. What monsters doing?"

[witchwatcher]

"They're big black and red flying things. They blow things up with heat and light, and they heal very fast from almost anything we do to stop them. Our world has been fighting them for years. You really aren't from here, huh?"

[campanas]

"No, am not. Pretty sure okay for heat and light. Is okay for singing while paperwork?"

[witchwatcher]

"Sure, you can sing once we get to my office. I can copy some magic, and one of the magics I know is soundproofing so you won't bother anyone else if they don't want to hear singing. I don't have a band in my pocket, though."

She walks to her office. Once the door is closed, "There we go. Sing away."

[campanas]

"A band?" Pen asks.

[witchwatcher]

"A group of people who make music to sing to, like at festivals and such."

[campanas]

"Oh. Don't need."

Pen tips her head back and sings.

[witchwatcher]

Yep. That's singing, alright.



Gren does eventually actually start doing paperwork. And some time after that, "There we go. Done. Lytee's probably back by now, wanna go find her?"

[campanas]

"Yeah."

[witchwatcher]

Lytee looks bored all through Gren's explanation. "Alright, I can put her home. But you have to clear it with the boss, and I wanna bring a half-squad. I'm not teleporting to an unknown world alone. 'Zat okay, Pen?"