> "Rumia is also Rumia. Now hold still for a minute so I can do this properly."> If she actually does hold still, work on developing snake jaws.> How well can we talk with the altered jaws, anyway?
> Speak with the appropriate effort, then.> "All right."> Open our mouth wide, pointed in the direction of Sanae's head.
> Move our mouth in toward her head. If we need help, pullher toward us so her head goes toward our mouth.
> Is our mouth actually wide enough to fit her head?
> Well, if we're not entirely sure, then fun time is over. Maybe we can use this trick again later to help a fairy win hide-and-go-seek or something.> Pull our head back, let Sanae go, and restore our jaw to normal.
> "It's true that I'm not much of a hugger. But today's been full of extreme highs and lows, both physically and emotionally, and I've come out of it with a renewed appreciation for those I care about. And you seemed to genuinely feel bad about the jet thing, so."
> "You've been told correctly, I imagine. Part of my day involved traveling all the way to the other side of the world, to find a country full of people that didn't understand me or speak a language I understood, people that also live in terror and hatred of supernatural creatures, and that was still one of the less stressful things that's happened to me today."
> "Yeah. Go on back inside."> Pick up our umbrella and trot back inside ourselves.
> "Oh, okay."> Join her at the porch.
> "You're originally from the outside, right? Apparently I went to a place called Europe. You ever heard of it? The Turtle House kids say it's all the way on the other side of the world."
> "I don't think so. If I did, it didn't come up. The area of Europe I was in was called Avalon, and one town I found myself in was called Arzas, I think. I learned of a region called Cornwall, too, though I never went there."
> "Really? It was daytime th entire time I was there. But it also wasn't raining, and I spent at least a couple of hours there and returned to find that almost no time had passed here, so who the hell knows what rules apply to this situation. If any."
> "They said they were from Avalon, and multiple magicians here have confirmed the existence of an Avalon. Suwako didn't seem to question it either."
> "Oh. Well, the guy there claimed that too. I didn't check any maps because I couldn't have read them anyway."
>"About all I can tell you about the place is that people like me aren't treated as kindly as we are here. Well, that, and that the place has a king named Pendragon."
