Aeromancy

7/11

"Do you think the clouds know anything about the future?"

"Why?"

"Well, there's so much space in there...and there are so many. And the water cycle has been going on since the Earth was created, right? All that water must know something."

"It's just water, though,"

They sit in silence on the green grass hill for a while. The sun is lulling and washes out the colors around them with its brightness.

"I guess."

Subtilize

7/12, now with extra Lost reference.

Arcane is fuming by the time she's pulling Karma off Obsidian and Dark Archer (at the same time) for the third time today. And after having to pull her off each of them, separately, two times each. Karma whines like a neglected puppy which only infuriates Arcane more.

"You're getting fixed, girl," she growls,

"Noooo!" Karma protests.

Arcane considers herself fairly level-headed. She's faced down certain death with nary a drop of sweat. She'd fended off an annoying goblin for a whole year without once thinking about killing the creature. But her daughter? Her daughter drives her up the wall without even trying.

Arcane executes a series of nerve pinches without even looking and finds a clean table to put Karma down on.

"Sorry, dear, I let you be raised by another when I should've raised you myself,"

Arcane digs into her pocket dimension and produces a long, wicked looking pair of scissors.

If it works for a dog it should work for a human, too, she tells herself.

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Listen, kids, don't try to spay or neuter your kids in real life. I think you'd get arrested.