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got it covered with beginner magic.   Her love for her old college roommate was clear.  And her mountain of respect.
    All power to the turtle.
    The man in question spared enough energy for a smile.  The weather of the world can be altered by a butterfly’s wings.
    Jamie shook his head.  That had never made any sense.
    You aren’t a family that is used to having only butterfly wings to use.  The inferno was down to the size of a small elephant now.  We all have our own special talents.  Mine is in using small things to change the course of bigger ones.
    No shit.  The man messed with the world’s weather patterns—and saved lives doing it.  Jamie added his vote for turtle as MVP.  Really glad you’re here today.
    Me too.  A pause.  She tires.  Aervyn, can you handle what’s left? 
    Superboy was already working, calling to the energy still pounding behind Mia.  Yup.  Can you move her away a bit?  I can make this go down really deep, but it might make the rock you’re sitting on a little rumbly.
    Govin had his student in his arms and off the rock at a speed that looked nothing like a turtle.
    Nell slammed a training circle down around the two of them.  Jamie looked at Aervyn long enough to make sure things were totally under control, and then joined Nell and pulled a second layer of protection down over all of them.
    Turtles suddenly seemed really smart.
    Aervyn held power for another moment, surrounding himself with a flaming column of fire twenty feet high.  And then slowly sank it into the earth. 
    No rumbles at all.  Just one seven-year-old getting the job done.
    With a broomstick loop-de-loop finish. 
    -o0o-
    Lauren handed her dripping-wet husband a bacon biscuit, still trying to catch up on what had gone down at Ocean’s Reach.  She’d been paged, along with Ginia.  And landed just in time to see Aervyn and Dev zooming their broomsticks out of the ocean.
    Her husband leaned in, grinning, and kissed her forehead, dripping salt water everywhere.  “We had to go cool off.  Mia pulled a boatload of power and it took some doing to ground it.”
    Given the exhaustion she was reading, it had taken more than that.  She added a handful of cookies to the biscuit.  “You guys deal with boatloads of power every day.”
    He nodded.  “Yeah, but not through baby-witch channels.  It’s easy to drain your own stuff—a lot harder to drain someone else’s.  And she still can’t see what she calls.”
    That sounded complicated.  Lauren glanced at her niece, currently being thoroughly bossed around by her triplet-sister healer.  “Mia looks okay.”  Her mind wasn’t chewing on nearly as much as everyone else’s.
    “That’s because she didn’t see it,” said Nell quietly, coming over to raid the cookies.  “She channeled a whole lot of power, but all she knows right now is that she lit a candle with a little more oomph than normal.”
    Lauren watched as Mia’s eyes started to study the people around her.  “She’s catching up fast.”  All of the triplets were stellar at reading a situation, and they’d lived through plenty of magical escapades.  “She knows what emergency cookie deliveries and healer scans mean.”
    “Yeah.”  Nell was steadily munching.  “Hopefully Ginia doesn’t have to pull out the goo.”
    That much Lauren could pick up from their competent young healer.  “For Mia, no.  But she’s contemplating it for Govin and Jamie.”  Both of whom were well aware of the possibility and doing their level best to chow down on biscuits and cookies fast enough to avoid looming green fate.
    “Jamie will be fine.”  Dev turned to look at the quiet guy who had apparently been at the center of extreme candle lighting.  “Govin took the brunt of it.”
    “He has more practice grounding energies than anyone else on the planet.”  Nell’s eyes were fierce.  “He’ll be fine.”
    And one mama was very grateful he’d been here.  Lauren picked up another