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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.

~~~

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)

Comments

[alicornucopia]

"I mean, I guess we could summon you again with a non-random spell? But we are completely not allowed to let you out of the ward without getting you checked over first," says Korulen. "We weren't really allowed to summon you in the first place but that's less for safety reasons, more just we aren't graduated enough to do this big a spell unsupervised except we completely pulled it off because here you are."

[joyfulnoise]

"Oh. Okay."

[alicornucopia]

"Like I could get my mom to check you but she'd want to know why we'd met a friendly little dragon from another world and wanted to summon him. I'm sorry."

[joyfulnoise]

"It's fine, don't worry about it."

[alicornucopia]

"Okay. But we can chat while we're waiting for Nemaar's class to get out, if there's more stuff you wanna know about our world."

[joyfulnoise]

"Sure!" he says brightly. "Like what's up with your weird magic, and how do you turn the seasons if it doesn't involve waking up creatures?"

[alicornucopia]

"...Even if bunnies overslept when unsupervised how would that have anything to do with seasons changing?" asks Korulen, bewildered.

"We're wizarding students," Saasnil says. "That's the kind of magic we're doing."

[joyfulnoise]

"In Equestria a wizard just means a unicorn who's good at magic. Does your magic come in a bunch of different kinds? Who can do it, if you don't have unicorns? And turning the seasons means, like - actually, never mind the seasons, how do you handle your weather if you don't have pegasi? Do your bird people do weather stuff instead?"

[alicornucopia]

"There are kinds, and anybody can be a wizard, or a witch, and other kinds you have to be born with," says Korulen, "but most anybody can be those, although I don't think dragons can be lights or mages or sorcerers..."

Saasnil says, "Why would somebody have to do weather? Weather just... happens."

[joyfulnoise]

"I guess weather weathers by itself somehow or other in places where there aren't ponies to do it instead, but in civilized places the pegasi manufacture clouds and rainbows and so on and move them around to where they're needed and make sure they behave."

[alicornucopia]

"...Are rainbows practically necessary for, um, anything?" asks Korulen.

[joyfulnoise]

"I dunno. They're rainbows. It'd be weird and sad to have rain with no rainbows. And I think maybe liquid rainbows are an ingredient in some magical potions, but I don't know anything about potionmaking."

[alicornucopia]

"Huh," says Korulen.

"Well, there are weather spells," says Saasnil. "But they only come up if there's like hurricanes or droughts, not for everyday."

[joyfulnoise]

"So you don't schedule your rain and stuff? That sounds really inconvenient, what if you're setting up a big important event and you get the wrong weather?"

[alicornucopia]

"Then you put up a rain shield?" suggests Korulen.

[joyfulnoise]

"Huh. I still feel like having pegasi is better, but I guess it's all in what you're used to."

[alicornucopia]

"I guess," says Korulen. "I mean it'd be convenient if we just controlled the weather all the time and I guess we could, it just doesn't seem worth it?"

[joyfulnoise]

"Well, worth it to who? Pegasi like doing weather, and if they don't like doing weather they do other stuff and leave the weather to the ones who do like it."

[alicornucopia]

"Wizards are the ones with the weather control spells... I guess air and water mages could do some too."

[joyfulnoise]

"Well, I guess if your wizards and mages aren't already doing weather then either it isn't worth it to them or nobody's thought of doing it the way we do in Equestria because there aren't pegasi here."

[alicornucopia]

"Suppose," agrees Korulen.

"I'm gonna go get Nemaar," says Saasnil, and she slips out the door.

[joyfulnoise]

"Who's Nemaar, anyway, why'd he want to see you summon a somebody?"

[alicornucopia]

"Oh, he was making fun of Saasnil earlier, she wanted to prove him wrong," explains Korulen.

[joyfulnoise]

Joy giggles. "Oh."

[alicornucopia]

"He's one of the lion-people I mentioned so you'll get to see what they look like."