black bats flying round and round

[colorshapes]

They're not really colors or really shapes, but Addy's tastes aren't really tastes, so Kerron thinks it's okay to call them like that anyway. Addy does too and they talk about colorshapes every week. He likes Addy. She has simple colorshapes that are easy to understand and he can help with lots of them. Other people have more complicated colorshapes but he's getting better at reading them while they fly through the air.

He's on his way back to the quarters he and Mummy and Daddy share, and he's just pushed open the door that usually leads to the right building in the Forks compound.

It doesn't.

Kerron has only opened this door twice before in this direction, but he sure remembers where it used to go. Probably Mummy or Her Majesty did a magic here. He wants to see what kind. He goes in and lets the door swing shut behind him.

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[pythbox]

"Are you sure?"

[colorshapes]

"Yeah."

[pythbox]

She shrugs. "Well, then, I don't know what to tell you."

[colorshapes]

Kerron drinks his smoothie, looking suspiciously at her.

[pythbox]

She raises her eyebrows.

[colorshapes]

Finally his smoothie is gone. "Maybe I'll go home now," he says.

[pythbox]

"Bye," says the bat lady.

[colorshapes]

"And I'll tell Mummy and Daddy that I met you and that you want them to leave you alone," he says, nodding smartly. "And then they won't bother you, I bet."

[pythbox]

"Maybe not," she says wryly.

[colorshapes]

"Why would they bother you when you don't want them to?" Kerron asks.

[pythbox]

"That's a very good question," she says, "and I don't know what your mother would say if you asked it of her, but I bet it would be educational."

[colorshapes]

"Okay, I'll ask her then," says Kerron, and he hops off his chair and trots over to the door.

[pythbox]

The bat lady goes back to staring out the window.

[colorshapes]

Kerron goes back to to where his family lives, looking for Mummy.

[manofmyword]

Mummy is with Daddy! They are in their room.

Thanks to Daddy's magic powers, Mummy is sewing when Kerron arrives.

[colorshapes]

"Hi!" says Kerron. "On my way home from magic lessons I found Milliways! I met a lady whose colorshapes had lots of black bat shapes in them flying round and round and she had colorshapes that were about you, Mummy, so I went and talked to her."

[temporal_affairs]

"You're okay?" Nathan says. "Did you tell her who your mummy is - what happened?"

[colorshapes]

"She asked and I said," Kerron blinks. "I'm okay. We just talked. She's a human, she can't hurt me, why are you scared?"

[manofmyword]

"Your daddy and the bat lady don't like each other much," the Joker puts in, glancing up from his sewing. "What'd you talk about?"

[colorshapes]

"That! But she wouldn't say why," says Kerron. "And I told her you didn't have any colorshapes about any cities so she didn't have to worry about that, and she said she didn't understand you but she met you once, and she met the Empress one time, and she wanted to know how you could be my mummy and I told her magic, and she explained what a complex is and why Jasper thought I was going to have one but I don't 'cause I know you love me."

[manofmyword]

The Joker laughs.

"Well, that's not so bad."

[colorshapes]

"And she said that mass murderers don't turn into doting parents but I said obviously they do, like, all the time," says Kerron, nodding to himself. "And I explained about how half-vampires grow, and she said the first drink is free so I got a synthetic thing that looked like a pina colada but it tasted totally different and it was really good, and I told her about the Ultra Olympics, and there's no magic in her world at all and that's sad, and -" Then he repeats the part of the conversation about why Nathan might not like the batlady. Verbatim, including the part where he quoted Addy about how Mummy turning would simplify things.

[temporal_affairs]

[manofmyword]

He stops sewing.

"Well, hon?" he murmurs.

[temporal_affairs]

"You've never wanted to turn," Nathan says. "Kerron, kiddo, even if something like that happens, you'll be fine, okay? We both love you."