Post Twenty Six: .....Time Skip

[witchofthechalk]

 [Forward dated to Friday morning. Did you enjoy your 24 hours of droned Tiffany household? I'm guessing no. Anyway while you were sleeping all the photo's changed and you'll notice your daughter looks a bit older. And when she wakes up this morning she notices she's back in this place. Not family feel free to hear her talking to herself in her room.]

-again. I can't believe they would just drag me back here.

[A pause]

Actually I can believe that. In fact I'm surprised they didn't drag me off before this. At least everyone at home should be fine without me for a while....though if time doesn't pause I hope someone remembers that Mrs.Lawson needs her bandages changed....

[And after a moment there is a teenage witch exploring the house to see how long she was gone. Feel free to have been listening at her door the entire time.]

[Phone call. Tiffany sounds a bit older now to anyone who knew her.]

Well that was a nice three years away from this place. Though I've been told it's only been a day here....time certainly works oddly in this place.

No matter. For those who didn't know me, I am Tiffany Aching, witch of the Chalk. I'm not sure if anyone knows what a witch from the Discworld does but I thought I'd offer my services up anyway since I'm going to have a great deal more free time here.

Comments

[wolf-faerie.livejournal.com]

I see. Fairy magic doesn't make things go boom, but...

[A pause.] But you said people burn witches where you're from. But why do they do that if you're useful?

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

Because they're scared of us. We can do magic and they don't understand what that is or how it's possible.

A witch is different from people. We have to be. But because of that people fear us at times and when things get a little too bad...they tend to turn on us.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

....yes I suppose that is true.

Yes and luckily my journal was still here so I reread that to get back up to date.

[wolf-faerie.livejournal.com]

Oh...

[She knows how that is.]

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

Luckily witches tend to be good at surviving.

[sveariket.livejournal.com]

H' 'll not want th't. [And Sweden does not want to deal with an angry adult nation. Especially not without his axe or any other decent weapon.]

[wolf-faerie.livejournal.com]

So am I.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

Always a good skill to have.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

Why not?

[sveariket.livejournal.com]

W' aren't close.

[deaths-heritor.livejournal.com]

Good. I wouldn't have had the patience to describe everything again.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

It hasn't been a year.



[but feels his face for a beard anyway]

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

No, it's been three. At least it has for me.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

I doubt much has changed but did anything happen in the day I was gone?

[deaths-heritor.livejournal.com]

We discovered the secret to escaping the town hidden in subliminal messages in the newspaper advertisement.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, and I'd been so sure it was hidden in the books in the library too.

[deaths-heritor.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, an amnesia boulder fell from the sky after that and crushed half the town into oblivion while the rest of us forgot everything we'd learned.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

I hate when that happens.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

... How did you grow so quickly?

I don't...

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

People tend to grow when three years have passed.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

But it hasn't been three years! It hasn't even been one year!

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

[Pinching the bridge of her nose.]

....England. Time doesn't always work properly here. I was gone for one day here. It was three years for me back home.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

So tomorrow you could come back three years older again?

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

I suppose there is that risk.

Though I'm rather hoping that doesn't happen. It's quite unnerving to realize you've aged three years in a day.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

... It's good that you've come back to me.