Teddybear

How is everyone doing?

"He didn't."

Kivvien completed the concoction and moved on to a different task.

Kivvien could feel his malicious gaze but he paid it no mind.

"I wasn't aware there was more than one kind."

"Wishes," she said. "Could be a bluff but it gets me out of the house so I don't care much."

Kivvien put his wand away and went back to his own workstation to finish what he was working on.

Queenie shrugged. "We don't talk really. We've both got our own stuff going on."

Kivvien did so, making a couple of adjustments to the spell before testing it.

"Mom too," she said dismissively.

Kivvien huffed. "Fine."

"It wouldn't be-" Kivvien sighed. "If you interrupt one reading the spell is never cast. No magic is summoned. It could not be less risky."

"Were you raised by a single parent or a set?" she asked, somewhat intrusively.

She shook her head. "It's just my dad. He's fairly overprotective."

"No patience. No wonder you haven't a hint of organizational skills."