Ehlana and Ethan:
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Cassie and Michael’s decision to chaperone Naomi’s class trip to D.C. has already proved prophetic. They sensed the danger from another of Gwyneth’s goon squads in advance, but Cassie and Naomi needed to deal with the two women that were assigned the job of abducting Naomi out of one of the washrooms at the Smithsonian – and that’s why they made sure that they did that without any of Naomi’s girlfriends so that they wouldn’t be in the way when they went Ninja on Naomi’s would-be abductors. The bad guys didn’t give up that easily, but Michael was there to help too when a second attempt was made at the hotel during the stop between the museums tours and their dinner plans.
For that little battle, they had eight goons to deal with; Cassie and Michael kept the noise to a minimum with wards and shields to protect everyone in the rooms around them while also having two bystanders forget that they saw anything happening at all. The goons were left mobile-enough to make their escape, but they are apparently having very bad thoughts about Naomi and her talented chaperones; so they might not be done with these attempts against Naomi.
I will mention here that Ethan is not happy about this as we’re winding down toward nap time, but he also has a lot of faith in his future wife; so he is also not trying to talk Mom and Dad into letting him go there to be with Naomi – which he could and would do if really needed! Yes, I’m mad at Gwyneth too, since trying to get at us through our friends is definitely a very bad decision, but we’ll hope that she will get the hint from what happened today and call off her goons. Princeton is on a reading week, though, so that might be too much to hope for when there are definite risks that she’ll just try to help her goons to get the job done instead.
We’ll keep you posted on that if needed, but other than mentioning that Naomi is very proud of herself tonight; that’s all we have for this part of our report.
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Naomi, Aaron, and their classmates and chaperones have been enjoying a play day at the Smithsonian museums – along with awesome weather with temperatures reaching the high-eighties. Compared to that, our school day has been quiet – especially with so many of our own friends away for the week! We still had fun, and the weather has been decent with a local high reaching the seventies, but I spent some extra time with Sophia while she’s missing Aaron; and Ethan has been quieter than usual and wanted to play in his archives after school so we didn’t go biking with our friends. Aiden didn’t do that either, but he ended up helping out at the bakery instead, and we should get used to that, since the bakery will be getting busy as they gear up for the summer season; and Aiden will definitely be working there more-often. Yes, I’ll probably help out now and then too, but I’ll be more-likely to work at the lab whenever Aiden needs to be at the bakery.
Moving along, we traded messages a few times with Cassie and Naomi today, but only had one vid-chat when they could get together and on their own to do that with us this evening while we were working in the office with Mom and Dad. Our work-play time at the lab or archives helped to keep us busy and Ethan distracted from thinking about missing Naomi, and while he’s getting teased a lot already; I’m very tempted to join in on the jokes and book a room at the Inn for him for Friday night; since he might actually be the one to initiate Naomi’s welcome home hug and kiss and just keep it going for the rest of the day! ;^)
Okay, that probably won’t happen, but why let reality get in the way of having some fun? Ethan and I were home from the lab on-time for a barbeque-and-salads dinner with Mom and Dad. We took care of the clean-up; and then we worked and did a Magi lesson in the office until around ten o’clock. Mom and Dad are working ahead this week because we all want to spend extra time with Cassie and Michael after they get home on Friday – though we do know that we will need to share them with everyone else that wants to spend time with them. That, by the way, is going to be a lot of people, and will include Rowen and Tim as they get ready to move into their new house and deal with the rest of the work leading up to their wedding. Cassie and Michael have allowed for all of that in their schedules; so maybe they’ll actually have enough hours in each day to keep up – and if not; they’ll just ‘make’ the extra time as they go along!
Okay, we are obviously getting tired, and since we time-phased some of our work tonight, that isn’t a surprise; so let’s just wrap this up and we’ll get started on some quality power-up nap time now.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
