“And Mrs. Earwig,” said Mistress Weatherwax, her voice sinking to a growl, “Mrs. Earwig tells her girls it’s about cosmic balances and stars and circles and colors and wands and…and toys, nothing but toys!” She sniffed. “Oh, I daresay that’s all very well as decoration, somethin’ nice to look at while you’re workin’, somethin’ for show, but the start and finish, the start and finish, is helpin’ people when life is on the edge. Even people you don’t like. Stars is easy, people is hard.”
She stopped talking. It was several seconds before birds began to sing again.
“Anyway, that’s what I think,” she added in the tones of someone who suspects that she might have gone just a bit further than she meant to.
[ID: A digital drawing of the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku. She is shown from the knees up with her arms crossed. She looks at the ground so the top of her head faces the viewer. Her blue hair is styled in two knee length braids and tied with hot pink ropes; her roots are black. She is wearing a low cut black tank top, baggy black pants with hot pink straps, and an o-ring choker. Her arms are covered in bandaids. The username “pumpkinsong42_” is overlayed on top of Miku. End ID]
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