"I know you want to get on the road" Audrey began "But our mission is to recover magic items, and I'm kind of curious about how that stone got here. I want to stay around here for a while and see if there's any more where that came from."
"Robin never said where he got it, at least not to me, but he wasn't much of a traveler." Jess replied. "I suppose we could ask him, uh, her, although he'd probably lie."
"I need to find out from Mika if she can talk. He could, when he was a packmule, but I don't know if it works the same way when he transforms other people."
"Where is Mika, anyway?"
Just then the two heard Mika chanting something from the opposite room, the room where Jess had left the rock. The two rushed toward the room, while Audrey gave a sigh of exasperation. What craziness was the kid up to now?
Mika had been thinking. He definitely wanted to go back to being a kid, but he knew that a child alone could get into all sorts of trouble in the world, and he didn't want to be bossed around by an asshole like Robin either. Perhaps there was a way to be a child but part of a family, a real, loving family, not like the one that had bonded him to the wizard because they couldn't afford any more kids. . .
Audrey and Jess came into the room to see a seven-year old boy with Mika's features finish his spell by saying "And Audrey and Jess are my mommies."
Audrey wasn't any less exasperated--if anything she was more exasperated--but she felt a completely unaccustomed wave of love for Mika, a bright, lively child, not the dimwitted servant of Robin's creation.
"Put that down now, son! It's dangerous!" shouted Jess.
And Mika, with a grin, did.