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The clouds closed in around them as if somehow ordered to by the Months. Scout had intended to fly over to where Daisy was circling around Seeta and Geeta, but they had vanished from sight.
She tried to stay close to Emilie’s side, but she couldn’t get too close, not with as much wobbling as Emilie was doing as she worked out the mechanics of flight. Wisps of cloud intruded between them, sometimes obscuring Emilie’s form to a mere hint of a shadow, but Scout never totally lost sight of her.
A cold wind rose up as suddenly as the cloud bank had and chased the thick moisture away. Scout first looked to Emilie, a little below and to her left. Then she found Daisy and the others up ahead, far enough ahead that her glasses adjusted a bit to bring them into detail.
Then she looked back an
