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The letter was discovered later by Kay as she returned home from shopping. Plopping the grocery bags in the kitchen and a squirming Delphine in her playpen, she nestled back in a lounge chair and eyed the letter. Probably from one of the other guardians, she decided and slid a finger under the edge.

Pulling out the letter, her eyes skipped to the bottom of the page and then widened as she read who it was from. Chest tightening she glanced wildly over at Delphine, who was rubbing her throat in discomfort for what seemed the millionth time that day.

Dropping the letter on the coffee table, Kay went to the kitchen and extracted a bottle of potion for sore throats from amidst the groceries. Hands shaking, she added a few drops to some juice. Had they heard about this slight cold or whatever it was Delphine had? She wondered. Would they take her away? Surely not?

Delphine wrinkled her nose as she was handed the juice. Orange. Definately not her favourite.

Kay sighed as she managed to finally get the grumpy mishap to drink the juice. Only one way to find out. The seer wandered back to the lounge and picked up the letter once again.

She felt herself relax a little as she read the first sentences. Being chastised for Delphine's improper fountain use was alot better then the scenarios she had been thinking of.

But the worry quickly crept back in as she continued reading the spidery scrawl. She glanced up at Delphine and back down to the letter again. So it wasn't a cold after all? The seer felt slightly relieved at the fact she had noticed something was wrong and that the staff weren't going to take Delphine. The knot in her stomach re-appeared; - well not unless she couldn't help Delphine. She must!

After re-reading the letter again and letting out a deep sigh, Kay let it fall from her hand onto the lounge as she knelt down on the floor next to the playpen.

Delphine let out a disgruntled huff as she rubbed her spines back and forth across the playpen bars. She was itchy and sore and above all tired! She hadn't been able to sleep well the past few nights. Things ached and felt wrong and she could not get comfortable at all, no matter how many different sleeping positions she tried.

"Poor poor Delphine." Kay sighed as she scooped the mishap from the playpen and settled her on her lap. She managed to get a hold on one of Delphine's arms and inspected the spines on it carefully.

Now that she looked closely she could see that they were somewhat different looking than normal. She poked it gently and then apologised profusely when Delphine let out a wail.

With a sniffle Delphi pulled her arm away and tucked it close to her. That had hurt! Maybe even more than the time Cato had pulled at her fins. She began to start crying again. It wasn't faa~aaiir, why did all thses bad things happen to her?

Kay patted her head, unsure of wether to even give Delphine a hug now that she was so sore, and made gentle shushing noises. She noted the tone of the cries and decided at this point it was more tiredness then pain that was upsetting poor Delphi and so caried the still snuffling mishap to her room and tucked her in.

Delphine squirmed under the blankets. Didn't her mother understand? She couldn't sleep! Everything was to uncomfortable.

The seer sighed as she watched Delphine toss and turn, well at the least she could give her something to help her charge sleep, while she figured out what to do about the problem.

She retunred to the room a few moments later with another bottle, milk this time, with a few soothing herbs in it that she herself took when she had trouble sleeping at night.
"Goodnight Delphine." She soothed as the fish-kitty's eyes slowly drooped shut.

As she washed out the bottle in the kitchen sink, Kay mused on the fact that Delphine's behaviour somewhat seemed to reflect what happenned to children when their teeth grew in. In a way, she decided, it was rather similar, but with Delphine growing in fins instead. Perhaps that was it?
The bottled was dropped onto the draining board. Maybe looking up what to do for a teething baby might give her some clues? At any rate it was a start!

A few hours later they were still sitting in the kitchen, Kay tappng her fingers against her chin in thought, and Delphine happily demolishing the mashed-potato structures she'd built out of her dinner.

"Growth. Growing." Kay reapeated to herself quietly studying Delphine intently. Suddenly she paused and very slowly began to say, "Growing... growing pains!" she finished with a whoop, which caused Delphine to accidently smash one of her broccoli trees.

"Why didn't I think of it sooner?" the seer gave an exasperated sigh and slapped her forehead. "I used to get them all the time when I was a kid." Sliding off her seat she wandered over to look at Delphine's shoulders again. "They aren't pushing out through her skin, they're growing from it."

Delphine loked up, somewhat bemused as her Mummy patted her on the head and talked to herself.

"I think I know what to do now Delphine."



Delphine sighed happily as a few short minutes later she was lowered into a lovely hot bath.

Kay sat beside her and let the mishap wash herself. No attempts were made to use the sponges or washes on her, and she was left, unusually, to sit and soak for a very long time.

The seer shook her head, she should have seen that the warm baths had helped somewhat in the past few days, but she'd been so frazzled with Delphine's unusual grumpiness and the worry that she had caught a cold from playing in the fountain, that she hadn't really paid much attention and rushed Delphi through bathtime, thinking the sooner she got to bed and had some rest, the better.

She smiled to herself and let out a sigh. Atleast now she'd found a solution to the problem.


A new conundrum presented itself however, when it finally became time to remove Delphine from the cooling bathwater.

"Nooooooooooooooo!!" Delphine wailed and crossed her arms grumpily as her mother tried to remove the slippery mishap from the water. It was nice in the water! She usually enjoyed bathtime anyway, but tonight even moreso as it seemed to be relieving the horrible ache that had been bothering her. Why should she get out? She uncrossed her arms and gripped the edge of the plastic baby tub tightly.

Kay had finally managed to get a grip on the slippery mishap. She gripped and lifted Delphi from the tub, only to have the whole thing upend itself all over her and the bathroom floor.

She let out a sigh and slid to the now soaked bathroom floor, a once again crying Delphine in her lap. A few stray tears edged their way from her own eyes. She had to help Delphine! She just had to!

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