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[alicornucopia]

Two girls are moving their hands through the air and speaking together in perfect parallel.

Two girls are looking expectantly at a circle of red chalk on their floor.

Two girls have done something exceptionally stupid.

with Harry (andaisq)

with Isabella (Eva)

with Arcane (kappa)

with Miles (kappa)

with Nick (Rockeye)

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[thisvorlunatic]

"Thanks," says Miles.

[alicornucopia]

She puts it on one of the desks. There are also sticks of graphite, with the paper. "Um. Bye." She scurries away again.

[thisvorlunatic]

Miles writes a note.

Mother,

You aren't going to believe this one...

I appear to have been accidentally transported to a different universe. Twice. The second one is much nicer; it has people, and air. I am completely fine and getting along with the locals, but because of a quirk in the interdimensional transport system it's hard to say when I'll be back. Other people and objects can be freely transferred between worlds; it's just me who hit the one-in-a-million glitch.

Please reassure everyone who needs reassuring.

Love,
Miles

As a means of identity verification, he gets out his grandfather's dagger and stamps the Vorkosigan seal onto the page in blood. That plus handwriting should at least narrow it down to 'Miles is telling the truth', 'Miles was kidnapped and made to write strange notes', or 'Miles has gone insane'. And the note appearing seemingly from nowhere will argue for the first option.

[alicornucopia]

Eventually:

Korulen has a sending circle drawn up and double-checked, whenever you have something to send.

[thisvorlunatic]

I have something now. Where will I find this sending circle?

[alicornucopia]

Tell the lift to take you to the library, and on the left wall are several doors to workrooms; you want the third.

[thisvorlunatic]

Thanks.

He puts the dagger away and follows these directions.

[alicornucopia]

Whereupon (after cutting through an enormous library) he will find Korulen sitting on a floor by a circle in red chalk, smaller than the one that summoned him.

"Hi."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Hi." He holds up his letter. "So how do I get this sent, exactly?"

[alicornucopia]

"Just put it in the middle of the circle and then put your hand over there and concentrate on where you want it to land," Korulen says. "I'll do the spell."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Simple enough."

He puts the letter in the middle of the circle, and puts his hand over there, and envisions his mother's desk as clearly as possible.

[alicornucopia]

Korulen casts a spell and the letter disappears.

[thisvorlunatic]

"Thank you," he says. "So what is this a school of, exactly?"

[alicornucopia]

"Wizardry," says Korulen. "But it's a kids' school so they also teach other stuff so we're well-rounded."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Huh. All right. Thanks for sending my letter."

And, since he's here and all, he goes to investigate the library.

[alicornucopia]

It has a lot of books in it.

[thisvorlunatic]

So many books! Presumably some of them have things to say about his situation, unique though it is. Now if he can just find out which ones those are...

[alicornucopia]

Well, he can read all the signs labeling the sections and all the titles, thanks to his translation spell. Does he want "Interworld Wizardry"?

[thisvorlunatic]

He strongly suspects that he wants Interworld Wizardry!

[alicornucopia]

It's not a very big section. There are books about summoning and sending, of objects and people, according to various criteria, with and without the use of foci.

[thisvorlunatic]

He means to just do a brief overview of the subject, but between the unexpectedly interesting material and the unexpectedly interesting interaction between his Sense, his translation spell, and the written word, he loses track of time - and of the size of his growing book pile - pretty fast.

[alicornucopia]

"Hey, do you need World Proximity?" asks a fairly magical teenage boy.

[thisvorlunatic]

"Uh." He looks up from his current book. "Which one is that?"

[alicornucopia]

"This one." The boy, who has red eyes, taps a book halfway down the stack.

[thisvorlunatic]

Miles squints at it. "Right... no, I don't need it urgently, you may have it."