Chilly Boulder, Sunday evening

[blondecanary]

Dinah was at the ice cream place. With as many kids as had tagged along wanting ice cream.

Yeah, that'll be sure and get them ready to go to bed this millennium.

[Buying ice cream for wee tiny friends or wanderers. Might be a little slow.]

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[glacial_witch]

Like Karla's clothing could get any worse. She couldn't find any kids clothes in her size, so she'd just taken her clothing into the shower with her and tried to wash the worst of the mud off.

"Oh yes, oh yes! I wanna try them all! Can I?" she asked, turning her best 'please may I' face to the server.

[blondecanary]

Who evidently found it as cute as Dinah did because he said, "Sure, kid," and winked at Dinah, then handed over half-a-dozen sample spoons of ice cream right off.

"Chocolate's my favorite," Dinah admitted, then winked back at the server. "Double Dutch cone, please."

[glacial_witch]

"Thank you, sir!" Karla said, grasping for the spoons. "Oh, they all look so nummy! They do!"

[blondecanary]

"They're awesome," Dinah said, then reached for her own cone. "And you can have a bite of mine, too. Do you get this back home very often?"

[glacial_witch]

Karla nodded. Then shook her head. Then kind of shrugged. "Not alla time," she explained. "But when Daddy feels bad cause he hasn't seen me much, sometimes he takes me out to town to get ice cream at the parlor."

[blondecanary]

Dinah looked thoughtful, and picked up one of the spoons. "How often does your Daddy go away?"

[glacial_witch]

Karla shrugged again. "Lots. He's Mommy's Consort, an' people wanna speak to him if Mommy's not available. An' Mommy's always busy with Court, so Daddy's needed a lot. But next year, they say they'll bring me when it comes time to tour the Provinces. I'm lookin' forward to that."

[blondecanary]

Dinah gave in and hugged her. Even if she wouldn't quite get why.

"You'll have fun then," she said, voice quieter. "And you'll learn lots of stuff." And be with her working parents, except... yeah.

[glacial_witch]

Karla wasn't going to argue with a hug. She liked them. Hugs, yay!

"I'mma learn how to be a good Queen, like Mommy is," she said, nodding. "Maybe she'll let me watch the Court. I'll be good an' quiet, I really will!"

[blondecanary]

"I know you will." Dinah grinned. "Maybe even invisible, if you do a little shield, hunh?"

[glacial_witch]

"I can only do regular shields right now," Karla said, pouting a little. "Mommy an' Daddy say that if I could be invisdible, the servants would rebel."

[blondecanary]

Dinah laughed, managed to turn it into a cough, and said, "Well, fair's fair. If they can't be invisible while they work, you shouldn't get to play through all the places they gotta work in." Heh. Poor Karla's Mommy & Daddy. "But I know you'll be real good at them when you get big."

[glacial_witch]

"I will!" Karla said, nodding happily. "I'mma be super-great at Craft. An' bein' a Queen. An' a Healer! An' a baker!"

...Three out of four wasn't bad, right?