This is a matter of right and wrong, life and death. It's about reshaping the nature of time itself!
How can you possibly concentrate on swimming lessons and arts-and-crafts sessions when you know what's going on just a short distance away in the woods?
You steal whatever time you can to work on your plans, but it's never enough.
Yes, you get the irony in that.
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You've been going out to the Timeless Circle occasionally, too, learning as much as you can about its magic so that you can strengthen it.
What have you been focusing on, in your time out there?
Something else that you've been doing this past week is getting together the care package that you wanted to send back to Alison.
At least, you said that you wanted to send a care package. Did you actually do it? What did you send?