Page 91 of Culture and Curiosities
Like making good bubbles.
And making clothes go poof.
“I still do not know where to start, however.” Daddy felt very thinky as he took my hands and helped me step into the bubbly water. “One thing at a time as they come up may be best until we can find a better way.”
As I sat down and Daddy released my hands because we were careful, I sent Daddy pictures of books.
“Yes.” Sitting down on the floor, Daddy nodded. “That may be the best way to start.”
Daddy had smart books and poetry books but not romance books, so they’d be kind of boring but that was okay.
Smiling outside again, Daddy looked down at the water like he was sneaky. “Are you ready for my surprise?”
Nodding, I sat straighter and looked like a good boy as Daddy did more magicy stuff.
Oh.
My toys.
That.
Daddy did magic so much better than the regular mages.
Swimming whales and monsters were much better than funny flowers.
Chapter 24
Toman
How was such a simple spell a surprise to him?
Did they not have the toys that went in circles over a baby to keep them occupied when a parent could not pick them up?
How did they entertain small children?
How did they entertain the dog creatures they had in their homes that seemed to function like small children?
My Wren sucked on his binkie faster as his wide eyes watched his toys bob in and out of the water and up through the bubbles.
The only thing coming through from our bond were what I thought were animal noises but I wasn’t sure what a monster with tentacles should sound like under water.
I’d made the monster move.
Great dragons above.
But my mate was happy and his smile made the swimming creature rising through the bubbles less troubling.
Something could not be frightening when it made my mate laugh…and the books Klynn seemed to read about the monsters probably meant the same.
If it could be considered a mate, it should not be troubling.
“Look at your large fish, my mate.” Wren was so distracted by the way it jumped out of the water and dived back in, he didn’t even take the time to correct me on what the sleek animal actually was. “He’s very fast.”
The spell was designed to mimic their natural movements based on my knowledge, but in this case, it seemed to base their movements on Wren’s knowledge through our bond. It was a very good thing because that was not how I would have displayed the tentacle creature.
Somehow it looked happy as it moved, which must’ve been my Wren’s influence.
The other animals were not as strange or confusing and their movements made sense based on the type of creatures we had in our oceans. Wren was enjoying himself as they swam and nothing in his reactions said they were moving wrong.
