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Minor Characters ([personal profile] alicornucopia) wrote in [community profile] alicornutopia2014-12-05 06:15 pm

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Nika is impatient for everybody to come home already so she can show them her new stuff and Miles can show them that he can walk if he learns now and Ivan can - well, Ivan doesn't really have much to show for the trip, what kind of altly help is 'don't try aged fish, you won't like it' - well, Ivan can be a firebird, that's something. Ivan can tell them that he is a firebird. Except he doesn't seem to have been pleased about it. Well, whatever, Nika will let him show the grownups about... pens. Wait, if she let him do that, she would not be able to use her pen in the intervening time in case the grownups arrived. Oh well. Ivan will not get to do anything interesting. Maybe that will be okay with him. If he wanted interesting things to show off he should have done more magic bar stuff.

So Nika waits by where she expects grownups to come in, and she reads about magic on her pen.
washed_in_blood: (b< so i'll know)

[personal profile] washed_in_blood 2015-01-17 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Miles is not sufficiently patient to mimic her strategy. He gets Bothari to call his mother.

"Ma'am. You should come home. It's Miles - he's not hurt, but - you should come home, ma'am."

This is not the explanation Miles would have produced if he'd been in charge, but it seems to be inexplicably effective.
greatcomposure: (⑪ recalculating)

[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-17 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
It definitely gets Cordelia to go home immediately.
greatcomposure: (⑩ do go on)

[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-17 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
...well.

"Where is the letter? And where is the Sergeant? Was he with you when you went to the magic place?"
greatcomposure: (⑦ this way of seeing)

[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-17 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
...Cordelia examines the pen. And the letter.

"And where are Miles and Bothari now?"
greatcomposure: (⑧ egalitarian)

[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-18 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
She glances at the first few lines - enough to see that it's addressed to her, and references another letter given to Sergeant Bothari - and then follows Nika.

"So you and Miles and Ivan and Bothari all went to the magic place? Who did you meet there?"
greatcomposure: (⑩ do go on)

[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-18 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"I see."

She doesn't quite, but she thinks she can probably get the details out of poor Bothari if she can get him calmed down.
greatcomposure: (⑥ perfectly obvious and casual)

[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-18 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Does mine also have this letter on it?"
greatcomposure: (⑦ this way of seeing)

[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-18 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"I need to talk to Sergeant Bothari, and then I want to read the letter, and then I will give you back your pen," she says.
greatcomposure: (⑧ egalitarian)

[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-18 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hello, Ivan. Nika told me you went to a magic place," she says.
greatcomposure: (⑨ between)

[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-18 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"I need to talk to Sergeant Bothari. Do you know where he and Miles went?"
greatcomposure: (⑤ it all works out)

[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-18 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank you."

She goes that way.
washed_in_blood: (b< so i'll know)

[personal profile] washed_in_blood 2015-01-18 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not hard to find Miles and the sergeant.

He's not looking so good. But when he sees Cordelia, he looks at her with raw hope.
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[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-18 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hello," says Cordelia.

"You need to let me out of this thing now, the magic blood from the magic place fixed me," insists Miles.

"I will take you to a doctor to check that in a little while," she says. "But first I want to talk to the Sergeant. It's very important."

"Fine," Miles grumbles.

"Sergeant, will you come and sit with me over here?"
washed_in_blood: (c= what did i)

[personal profile] washed_in_blood 2015-01-18 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes, milady."

He pulls the letter out of his pocket and offers it to her. "I have this for you. From - from―" He breaks off, shakes his head, silently brandishes the folded paper.
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[personal profile] greatcomposure 2015-01-18 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank you," she says, taking it from his hand and unfolding it.

Well. That's... that's something.

She reads it through. Then she looks up at Bothari.

"Did you meet... another Miles, in the 'magic place'? Did he give you this letter?"

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