Granny Miri rolled her eyes, then cleared her sinuses by blasting out one side and then the other. “Until she’s grown up, say eighteen or nineteen or maybe even twenty, and then she’ll stay that same age.”
“For how long?”
“For as long as she has the notebook.”
“I’ll take it away from her.”
Granny Miri shook her head. “It’ll just come back. No matter what you do, it will always come back.”
“You can take it away.”
“Not within my power as long as I’m in the corporeal realm.”
“That’s easy to solve.”
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