I SPY

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"Okay," Richard pointed at Kahlan. "Your turn."

Kahlan looked around her, and then smiled. "I spy with my little eye something beginning with... C."

"Clouds?"

"No."

Cara walked past them, "Are you two still playing that?"

Richard smirked, "Cara?"

"No," Kahlan laughed, and nearly slipped backwards off the log. "Oops."

"How about..." Cara stopped and faced them, "Confessor?"

"I thought you weren't playing?" Richard balanced the flat of his dagger blade on his forefinger.

"I can hardly see myself, Cara."

The Mord Sith shrugged, "There's not much else to do since we're stuck like this until Grandpa Zedd works out how to change us back."

"I'm trying my best, children."

Richard gasped, "Oh, hey! Children! Is it children?"

"No," Kahlan grinned. "You'll probably never guess."

Cara played with her agiels, "C, C... What starts with...?" She pouted and then smirked, "Clothes?"

Kahlan frowned, "I want to say yes, just to move the game along, but no." She giggled, "It's not anything you've guessed so far."

"But what else starts with C?" Richard sighed. He walked around a few trees. "It's so quiet here. You couldn't have seen any creatures, so... Wait, wait!" He turned to Kahlan, who smiled back at him. "Creation? Is it creation?"

"Yes!" Kahlan jumped up from the log and hugged Richard. They smiled at each other, leaned forward, but quickly shrunk back.

Cara pointed an agiel at them, "Doesn't feel so right when you look like six-year-olds, huh?" She laughed.

Richard's eyes pleaded with the taller-than-usual wizard, "Gramps, could you work it out soon?"

Zedd towered over the children as he stroked his long white beard, "Work what out? Why you three have lost years, or why I've gained them all? It was very powerful magic that did this, but I don't know how it happened or how to get us back to our proper ages. There is one who may be able to help us, but with my old lungs and your short legs it'll take us days to reach her."

"Her?" Kahlan grimaced, "You don't mean..."

"I spy with my little eye," Cara pointed her agiel at a black-cloaked figure walking towards them, "Something beginning with S."

Richard pouted, "It was my turn!"