per admirabilem ascensionem tuam

[jovahs_heiress]

Peninnah is now five, and her wingspan should be sufficient to carry her aloft; she's just having a little trouble with the necessary coordination. Isabella has worked with her, and so has Rinnah, but Peninnah is impatient and has given up on both of them in favor of asking Damaris for help, on the poorly articulated theory that Damaris, at age thirteen, is closer to Peninnah's own size and might make more sense.

Comments

[inherpiety]

"I guess we can go fix things, either way."

[fortissima]

"Yep!"

[inherpiety]

"And probably get pastries, even."

[fortissima]

"I sure hope so!"

[inherpiety]

"That would be really sad, if we had to trade pastries for Mom otherwise optimizing the world!"

[fortissima]

"It would! I would ask her to make there be pastries again."

[inherpiety]

"And she would send an aaaaangel to fix your problem," laughs Keziah.

[fortissima]

"But then," exclaims Damaris, "I would have to give them pastries!"

[inherpiety]

"Are you saying you won't share? Will I have to fight you to get some of my own pastries where we're going?" cackles Keziah.

[fortissima]

"You can have all the pastries that are yours," says Damaris.

[inherpiety]

"Who decides which ones are mine, huh?"

[fortissima]

"Me."

[inherpiety]

"Who died and made you captain of Jovah?" snorts Keziah.

[fortissima]

Damaris giggles.

[inherpiety]

"I wonder what Yseult and Céleste are doing right now, they don't have to go through the motions of being professional angels... I wonder how old they are now. And if they have little sisters by now."

[fortissima]

"That's a weird thought," laughs Damaris. "I wonder if we'll be older than they are, when Jane comes back?"

[inherpiety]

"You were once!" says Keziah. "I mean, not exactly, but our mom was pregnant with you when Rose hadn't even decided to have Yseult."

[fortissima]

"I don't think that counts," she says, giggling.

[inherpiety]

"I guess not. I wonder if time ever goes backwards? Like, could they be younger than they were when we saw them?"

[fortissima]

"I don't think that works," says Damaris. "Where would the time go? What would happen to the Yseult and Céleste who met us?"

[inherpiety]

"They'd happen later, I guess? And not mention that they saw us when we were younger?"

[fortissima]

"Can you imagine them doing that? I can't."

[inherpiety]

"Well, maybe something bad would happen if they mentioned it. Maybe things wouldn't happen how they remember them, if they did?"

[fortissima]

"You two were seven! Can you imagine acting perfectly like you'd never met somebody you already knew, when you were seven?"

[inherpiety]

"Nnnnno," acknowledges Keziah, laughing softly.