Sorry for not updating actually on Christmas Day. I'll try to finish soon.
Tales of a Baby Bird
Chapter 6:
...5 days 'til Christmas...
Roe opened her eyes and sat up in bed. She took her toy robin into her arms and looked around her room. After stretching her arms above her head, she got out of bed and went over to her bedroom window. Roe pushed back the curtains and gasped. The entire backyard was covered in pure white snow! To add to it, a little robin came flying onto her windowsill and hopped along it before taking off. Roe unlatched and lifted the window up after getting her Kiddie Zoom Digital Camera. She then took a picture of the robin's delicate footsteps in the snow before closing it and heading out to leave her bedroom.
As Roe came running down the stairs, she saw a large pile of snow in the front hall. Her parents, Theo and Kira were standing around it with pondering looks on their faces. She looked to see the front door open and saw the snow had collapsed in. They were snowed in...
"Mamma, Tati? What's going on?" Roe asked.
"Oh! Roe, we didn't see you there," said Zatanna, reaching over and picking up her daughter "It seems it snowed more than we thought. Would you like to help me clear it with a simple heat spell?"
"Yes, Mamma, yes!" Roe exclaimed.
Zatanna and Roe put their winter coats, hats and boots on over their pyjamas but left their hands uncovered for the spell. They stepped through the snow and Zatanna taught Roe the words, making her repeat them back to her just to make sure.
"Taeh!" the 4-year-old exclaimed, gesturing outwards to the snow.
The snow began to glow with warmth as it began to melt. It would have been faster if Zatanna just said "tlem eht wons" but she needed to teach Roe how to use her powers.
Zatanna and Roe sipped hot chocolate after melting their way down the garden path. Hailey sat on her mother's lap, sucking at a sippy cup filled with warm milk. Roe happily dunked a cookie into her hot chocolate and stuffed it into her mouth, licking the crumbs off her fingers. Zatanna smiled and wiped her hands with a napkin.
"Mamma, will I be able to do big stuff like fly soon?" Roe asked "I wanna fly like you and *Nonno!"
Zatanna felt a twang of sadness at the mention of her father but was happy Roe knew him as Nonno.
"I started training with my powers when I was a little older than you, about 6, and I couldn't fly until I was 12 so, mathematically, you've started at age 4, two years before me so, you could learn to fly by age 10," Mrs. Grayson said, holding Hailey to her as she burped her.
"I'm 4 so... that'll be in six years!" Roe exclaimed.
Zatanna giggled and ruffled her oldest daughter's hair. She had definitely inherited her father's affinity for mathematics. In actuality, Roe would probably learn to fly a lot sooner since Giovanni had kept Zatanna doing beginner spells for as long as possible. Zatanna didn't plan to keep her own daughter back like that but she didn't plan on letting her try anything she wasn't ready for.
"Mamma, do you think Hailey has powers too?" Roe asked, looking at her little sister.
"Possibly," said Mrs. Grayson, watching as Hailey fell asleep for a nap "But she might not. You'll be nice about it even if she doesn't, won't you?"
"Yeppers! And I'll give up being a Bat so she can be the Bat!" Roe exclaimed, smiling.
Zatanna's smile grew. Somehow, she had given birth to the sweetest kid in the world!
*Nonno: the Italian word for "grandfather" and I'm pretty sure it's pronounced Non-noh.
Roe refers to her mother's side in Italian and her father's side in Romanian but refers to her father's adoptive family in English. She's bilingual!
