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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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[alicornucopia]

"Yeah, go for it. And I'll collect you in about three angles give or take and tell your friend to wander off someplace if he wants yoinking - will you be able to tell if he does that versus deciding he's not in a hurry to come back here?"

[or_coincidence]

"Yes. I'll look at him again every so often and if there doesn't seem to be anypony nearby and he doesn't seem to be busy with anything I'll cast the spell to bring him back."

[alicornucopia]

"All right, scrying, good, I'll let him know. Oh, do you want me to look up a translation spell for you? I speak Equestrian just fine but that's because I'm a dragon, you wouldn't be able to talk to anyone else without magic."

[or_coincidence]

"That seems like it would be really convenient, then! It'd take me longer than three hours to find a good translation spell, probably."

[alicornucopia]

"They're common for wizards, I can find one in about a tick, no problem. Okay. See you then," he grins.

[or_coincidence]

"See you!"

And she rereads her notes and double-checks everything and concentrates and - casts.

Kaylo appears back in the library he came from, next to the chair he was sitting in. In a large cloud of slightly glittery red smoke.

[alicornucopia]

"Pah -" He waves away the smoke, then gets up looking for purple-and-green guy.

[joyfulnoise]

Purple and green guy: Still sitting behind an increasingly large stack of books, munching on gemstones and reading about... Linnipese history, currently.

[alicornucopia]

"Hey, uh, Joy? You know Blueberry?"

[joyfulnoise]

"Huh? Yeah!" he says. "Why, have you seen her?"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah, she summoned me and said to tell you that if you want to go home you need to go someplace that isn't near any," he raises a hand, "spell-confusing dragons or dragonlike creatures. If you aren't in a hurry though I'm gonna summon her in about three angles - hours - anyway I'm going to summon her soonish and you could talk to her then directly."

[joyfulnoise]

"Okay. Thanks for telling me! Did she really summon you by accident trying to get me?" He giggles.

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah. It was startling, but you know what, I will take the inconvenience, we're gonna swap knowhow about magic, it's gonna be great."

[joyfulnoise]

"Have fun! Blueberry's pretty great, she knows all kinds of stuff. And she's cute and tiny."

[alicornucopia]

"She is!" agrees Kaylo. "Anyway, I'm off to convince a teacher to let me summon her." He waves and wanders off.

[joyfulnoise]

Joy goes back to his reading.

[or_coincidence]

As promised, Blueberry checks up on him every so often.

One hour into the three-hour interval, she sees him hanging out by the side of a pond, not doing much. As far as Blueberry can tell, there isn't anypony nearby, unless they are hiding at the bottom of the pond or something.

She casts her spell.

This time the cloud of smoke resembles billowing black glitter.

[alicornucopia]

"QUACK!"

[or_coincidence]

"...oh dear," says Blueberry. "You don't look much like a dragonlike creature either... but last time I thought that, it turned out to be shapeshifting. Are you a shapeshifted dragonlike creature? I can put you back where you came from without much trouble, but if you're not a shapeshifted dragonlike creature I want to find out what you are instead first, in case there's something wrong with the spell."

[alicornucopia]

The duck looks around and quacks again.

[or_coincidence]

"Oh, dear," sighs Blueberry. "I'm going to go get Cordy. I'll just be a minute."

And she darts out of the library and conscientiously closes the door behind her and gallops off.

[alicornucopia]

The duck... waddles up to the window, peers out of it, and then looks at the spell scroll.

[or_coincidence]

The spell scroll contains Blueberry's notes on a spell to bring a person from one world to another. It pays particular attention to safety measures, and there are some scribbled laments in the margins about having to sacrifice accuracy to make sure nopony gets hurt.



Blueberry comes back, leading a bigger, older pony with spiderweb marks on her flanks.

[ipso_amore]

"Hi," says Cordy to the duck. "What's up?"

[alicornucopia]

The duck just looks at her.