exploratory kidnapping

[alicornucopia]

In this room are two women, one gray and sixty years old, one just thirty and red-haired, both wearing elaborate outfits. The younger casts a spell.

In this room is now also a third person. (On whom the elder woman promptly also casts a spell, which she had at the ready.)

Comments

[missnicegirl]

"Well, then, it makes sense that he'd tell you to be good for your fheeil since he doesn't know your fheeil is wrong about something important," says Matilda. "Maybe he'd say something different if he knew."

[alicornucopia]

"Everybody," says Leekath, "thinks that hearers are crazy. We're just not dangerous so I can still go to school and stuff if my parents let me."

[missnicegirl]

"Everybody is wrong about hearers being crazy," says Matilda. "It's really real magic and anyone who can see magic with ialdae can say so."

[alicornucopia]

"But my parents can't do that," says Leekath.

[missnicegirl]

"No, but lots of people can, and I bet if I found an agreeable wizard I could get them to invent a wizardry analysis for it and then anyone who could cast the analysis could say so too."

[alicornucopia]

"I guess that would help," says Leekath dubiously.

[missnicegirl]

"Okay. So I can do that, and then if you ask your parents if you can study ialdae and they both say no, maybe they will change their minds after they learn hearing is real magic and you're not crazy."

[alicornucopia]

"Is there a school for it or what?" asks Leekath.

[missnicegirl]

"No, there's mostly just me. I'm the first person who ever used ialdae and I still know more things about it than anybody else. But if your parents want more grownups to be involved, I can probably find someone."

[alicornucopia]

"I don't know if it would help," says Leekath. "It would probably be easiest if it was taught at my school."

[missnicegirl]

"Well, where's your school? Maybe I'll go teach ialdae there."

[alicornucopia]

"It's called Binaaralav and it's in Paraasilan."

[missnicegirl]

"Okay! And now that I know how to make vampires immortal I should do it for the rest of your family if they want, but I don't know how to ask your fheeil about that. I think maybe he doesn't like me or something."

[alicornucopia]

"He mostly... doesn't... like people."

[missnicegirl]

"Well, I'll try asking him anyway, I guess. Do you know where your aaihhhi's office is? I could go there to offer it to him too, since it doesn't seem like he's going to come home soon."

[alicornucopia]

"It's in Parliament, and I can find it if I'm in the Parliament building but I don't know how to get there from here without going to the teleportation station."

[missnicegirl]

"Okay. I'll see if I can find it by myself. But first I'll go talk to your fheeil."

She gets up off the couch and goes looking for Kheeeahh.

[alicornucopia]

He is in a small officey room with the door closed.

[missnicegirl]

She knocks.

[alicornucopia]

"What is it?"

[missnicegirl]

"I figured out how to make vampires immortal, and it's really easy and it only takes a split and I can do it for you if you want, and for your other kids too," says Matilda. "And then I think I'll find Thiies's office and offer it to him."

[alicornucopia]

"I do not have time for games, child."

[missnicegirl]

"...I'm not sure what you mean," says Matilda. "I'm serious."

[alicornucopia]

"I particularly do not have time to explain the difference between fantasy and reality. If you are done playing with my daughter you may go home."

[missnicegirl]

"...If you want to find out about the kinds of things ialdae can do, you can probably ask just about any dragon by now and they'll have heard of me," she says. "But you're not going to die of old age anytime soon and neither are your kids, so I guess I don't have to convince you right away."

On consideration, she adds, "Thank you for having me over. It was really nice talking to Leekath. I like her a lot. Goodbye."

Then she pops back out to the street where she met the family. Time to see if she can find out where Esmaar keeps its Parliament. Maybe if she can find a library...