Azora Howl settled comfortably onto her new broomstick. She had only had to seize it from an enterprising shop gremlin who was absolutely wasting it moving boxes about like some kind of common servant. She had simply settled on top and it had obeyed her, which had been exceedingly gratifying. Quite frankly, she'd been worried that Eupheria would manage to screw up witches brooms, which would [i]really[/i] have been an achievement, but one couldn't put any amount of failure past an [i]Illuminan[/i]. She had sniffed, turned up her nose, and kicked her new broomstick to fly off without so much as a how do you do from the gremlin (probably because she had bound him upside down and gagged to the wall with shadow cuffs. Gosh that one really never got old). 

Now, she was comfortably in the lead and there was that silly Illuminan princess, her bratty sister, and that...uh fox princess with them! Wait, hadn't the other one traveling with them been a cat though? Well whatever, it's not she like was expected to keep up with which fluffy animal princess her sister and that Illuminan traveled around with. She couldn't just let them traipse about in what was soon to be her kingdom! She needed to make an example of them, then she could show Daddy that she'd personally defeated all his villains and become a queen AND gotten him the Caduceus and he would know forever that she was the best and only daughter that mattered in the whole universe. This was in fact a perfect plan. 

Oh and look, the Illumina's witty bitty kitty curse was getting worse! She had done some excellent acrobatics, but now she's just sitting there grooming herself. Oh dear though, Azora saw yet another failing on Eupheria's part. The little kitty didn't have a collar on! Why, people would think she was a stray, that wouldn't do at all. Now, let's see, ah yes, she did have those odd green eyes and it was important to color coordinate (Azora Howl considered whether she would make a "collar coordinate" joke upon landing, but determined that such a pun was beneath her). So, she conjured a leash and collar in a lovely green to complement her new kitty's eyes and shot it lickety split from her new broom to snap around Alina's neck. Then she gave it a firm, magically strengthened yank to pull her new kitty onto all fours like she was supposed to be. That was excellent. She was even so thoughtful and careful to make sure that the part of her arm being groomed wasn't pushed as hard as the rest, so kitty could keep working on making herself pretty. 

She'd thought her annoying sister would hop up at an assault on one of her friends, but as she pulled her broom in closer, she realized that the nerd and her little cheerleader were out cold. No visible wounds, must be magic or poison. Either way, they were obviously in the same boat and ought to know it a bit better, not to mention be a bit more immobilized than now. She gives her hand a little twirl and a thick fluffy blanket appears out of nowhere. She's not going to hurt her sister, she's just errant and the forest floor is no place for a Rider princess, especially one carrying something so important as Mother. So she lifts her sister up on the blanket, Kyouko too, and then twirls and twirls and wraps them up together nice and tight. There, snugly held and dealt with. She was almost jealous of the sound sleep they would get, but of course there was other work to be done for her right now.

She starts to float down and as she does so, she sees another one of the competitors. That Askaian in the dancing girl outfit. Where's she going in such a hurry? It would [i]not[/i] do for her to rush Azora Howl along, you can tell that much. Hm, how about...oh yes..Azora gives her fingers a little twirl and sends out an enchantment. Suddenly every piece of silk on that poor little dancing girl thinks it's a tree snake and wants to attach itself to a different tree branch. Just try and watch her twirl and leap when every piece of fabric she's wearing is pulling her in a different direction! She'll be hopelessly trussed up in seconds! Azora permits herself a light chuckle.

Then she floats over to Mittens and pulls her head into her lap, stroking her ears gently (it is not gentle, she's stroking your ear fur the wrong way, you want to shudder and arch every part of your back). "Good kitty. I think being a kitty is the best thing for an Illuminan, you're much better at it than the actual cat people, that one over there is doing an awful job of it. You though, if you're very good," [i]she jangles your collar to emphasize the point[/i] "maybe I'll keep you and let you sit on my lap when I'm the princess of the whole world. What do you think kitty?"