cooperation

[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)

Comments

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"I hope you can see why I was so upset earlier. In my world, it's hard to live to adulthood without a healthy dose of caution."

[alicornucopia]

Nod nod.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Good. Let's go shopping. I want clothes, paper, and crafts supplies. Lead the way."

[alicornucopia]

She nods and shows him to the lift, which takes them to the entrance hall, and then leads him to a city.

The city is very tall. It ends abruptly, but not for lack of land to spill out onto.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

Nick has no comment on the architecture. It's not like he's seen a city built on solid land before. He does seem slightly awed at the sheer size of the place, though.

[alicornucopia]

She takes him to a clothing store first. There are plenty of options; the men's side is however all variants of one sort or another on pants and shirts.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

So Nick buys some pants and shirts. Nothing too fancy or expensive. Are those some shoes? He gets a pair of those as well.

[alicornucopia]

Korulen pays for everything with some kind of credit system, and then shows him to an art store, which has paper as well as miscellaneous craft objects.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Where's your coins? They just trust you to come back and pay later?"

[alicornucopia]

"...What? No, they're scanning my credit stamp," says Korulen.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"So the stamp connects to a bank or something, and showing it tells the bank that you've bought such-and-such? Clever."

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah, basically. There are coins too but it's inconvenient to carry too many."

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"I'm beginning to think Cloudbank doesn't have much of anything compared to this place."

[alicornucopia]

Korulen shrugs noncommittally.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

Okay, crafts store. Wooden timbers, glue, canvas cloth, paper, an array of little metal tools. They don't sell bone and he doesn't know how to work metal, so he's not sure what he'll use for the parts that need to be harder than wood, but those are probably recoverable from his old glider.

It's enough that he has to carry it two-handed. "Before you complain about the cost, this stuff is to fix my glider. I know I probably can't use it properly here, but it gives me something to do."

[alicornucopia]

"I wasn't going to complain," mumbles Korulen.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"If you say so." Huff, huff. The pile isn't that heavy, really, it's just bulky.

"How do you get around other than walking? Those little platforms run on magic probably?"

[alicornucopia]

"I mean, I don't use a hover platform, I can fly, but they're pretty popular," says Korulen.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"You can fly? Without a ship or a platform or anything? Is that a thing dragons do?"

[alicornucopia]

"I'm not a dragon, but yeah, in my other form, I have wings," she says.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Most flying things I know use hydrogen to fly, it'd be interesting to see it done with wings. Would you mind?"

[alicornucopia]

"I don't mind. Do you want me to grab your stuff as long as I'm shifting?"

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"It'll come along? Great, sure, here."

[alicornucopia]

She picks up his bags with a soft "oof", and then bags and elf disappear to be replaced with a large winged lizard with swept-back horns and scales the same color as Keo's hair.

"Like so," she says. Her voice is the same.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Wow. You look like nothing I've ever seen before. What's that called, the... Things covering your skin?"