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

[andaisq]

"We wait... almost another hour. Apparently that was less than an hour, what we just did. And she's going to show up and yell at me and give me all the things I forgot to get out of my apartment because I'm an idiot. Standard fare, really."

[alicornucopia]

"We could just summon whatever the things are if you'd prefer not to be shouted at," Kanaat says mildly.

[andaisq]

"Well, I do also want to talk to her. And she's better at remembering things than I am, I'd miss something. Plus, the yelling is an important part of our relationship, I'd better stock up now so I don't feel deprived now that I don't see her around every day."

[alicornucopia]

"As you like. I'll get started on the circle." He picks up his chalk and starts drawing on the floor again.

[andaisq]

Harry seems somewhat at a loss for what to do! He elects to amuse himself by looking at books in weird alien languages. Alien languages, wooooo.

[alicornucopia]

Well, the translation spell lets him read their titles, although some of them disconcertingly trail their text past the edge of their spines as part of being translated.

[andaisq]

Even better! Weird alien books in perfectly normal English, wooo. He picks one that seems vaguely interesting (it's historical, record of a war of some kind) and sits to read it. Not his favorite way to eat time, but he'll make do.

[alicornucopia]

This book is about the period of time in which some country called Ertydo conquered a lot of stuff and some of the stuff unconquered itself violently. The wars seem to involve a lot of magic.

[andaisq]

Ooh, magic wars. It's kind of fun reading about a magic war that isn't his fault! He feels a bit sorry for the conquered folks, but that's how it goes, and it looks like they got their own back anyway. Good on them, probably.

[alicornucopia]

The book is easily long enough to occupy the entire time Kanaat spends drawing the circle. And the rest of the half hour.

[andaisq]

He checks the terrible watch pretty frequently. At the set time, he stands.

"Hey, Kanaat, the time of reckoning approaches. We can summon Karrin for yelling purposes now."

[alicornucopia]

"If you'll just supply the focus," says Kanaat, gesturing at one of the loop things where Harry has been putting his hand.

[andaisq]

"Sure thing." He puts his hand in and does the focusy thing. Paging Karrin Murphy, tiny angry policewoman extraordinaire.

[alicornucopia]

And Kanaat summons her.

[andaisq]

Murphy appears in a sitting position with a duffel bag slung over her shoulder, apparently having been petting an unreasonably large cat. She falls unceremoniously on her rear, swears loudly, and gets up. She looks around, notes the weird alien wizard-man and the weird non-alien wizard-man, and tests to see if she's confined in this circle thing. Naturally, she is.

"Harry. Good to see you. Mind letting me out of the force field?" she asks in a slightly strained tone of voice.

"Promise you won't throw me out a window?" he responds.

"I promise, I promise."

Harry looks to Kanaat. "She's not much threat to magic people without tools that she doesn't have on her right now, and she almost certainly won't hurt anyone. Besides my feelings. Can you let her out of the circle?"

[alicornucopia]

Kanaat smudges the chalk line.