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[alicornucopia]

In Paraasilan, Esmaar, a pair of roommates are about to break a rule that, compared to the one about running in the corridors or even the one about unlicensed teleportation, is there for a good reason.

In unison, they complete their shared spell.

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with Adarin (Aestrix)

with Ekador (kappa)

with Brilliance (kappa)

with the admin (kappa)

with Teah (kappa)

with Katran (lambda)

with Hall (kappa)

with Joy (kappa)

with Kalinda (Christy Hotwater)

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[cardistry]

He giggles. "And that's still weirdly adorable."

[alicornucopia]

"Huh. Your clothes don't have their own hhikiiias, I didn't notice until yours started talking about them."

[cardistry]

"Course not, they're part of me. I can change 'em the same way I could with my deck, see?" He inverts the black and white parts of the colour scheme with a shimmer of rainbow mana.

[alicornucopia]

"Now they're talking about the colors they are now. That was a pretty - magic thing you did."

[cardistry]

"My magic's pretty!" he says cheerfully. "Wanna see something else?"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah!"

[cardistry]

He giggles, puts his hand on the table, deploys a magical diagram, and lifts his hand away from it. The centre of the diagram fountains tiny glowing spheres in a dazzling rainbow of colours; they rise into the air in a streaming column and then drift away like soap bubbles, slowly fading as they go.

[alicornucopia]

"What's that spell for?" asks Leekath, watching the spheres float away. (The display attracts a little attention from some people nearby, too.)

[cardistry]

"It's not really for anything, I just made it up on the spot."

[alicornucopia]

"It's pretty. Is it easy to make up spells that do kind of complicated things like that on the spot?"

[cardistry]

"It's easy enough for me. I don't know how easy it'd be for somebody who wasn't a Device."

[alicornucopia]

"Are you planning to just stay in Elcenia forever?" asks Leekath.

[cardistry]

"I dunno. I don't even know if I can come back when the spell that's holding me here breaks. I think I can, but it's hard to be sure."

[alicornucopia]

"I don't see why you couldn't, if somebody else summoned you," says Leekath.

[cardistry]

"I mean come back by myself. Using my dimensional transfer magic. So I don't have to keep getting somebody new to summon me every time the last one dies."

[alicornucopia]

"Maybe a dragon would summon you. They live a long time, that's why they're so tasty."

[cardistry]

"I'd still keep needing new dragons for as long as I wanted to stay."

[alicornucopia]

"Hm?" Leekath tilts her head. "Oh, you're immortal." Pause. "You don't have normal blood... but you have some..."

[cardistry]

"Mm? Why, you want some?"

[alicornucopia]

"Not right now. I just ate. But I'm curious."

[cardistry]

He shrugs. "You can if you want."

[alicornucopia]

"I'll find you in a couple weeks. It sounds like - if you are biteable you'll be able to make lots of blood, so you wouldn't need a waiting list like the dragons have."

[cardistry]

"Yeah. I can self-repair; as long as I'm not wasting huge amounts of mana on other stuff, I'm not gonna run out of blood."

[alicornucopia]

"So I want to try it but I don't know if you'll want to tell absolutely everyone if it turns out you're biteable and also taste good."

[cardistry]

"Sure, why not?"