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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)

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[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."

[joyfulnoise]

"Cool," he says agreeably.

[alicornucopia]

Eventually Saasnil does indeed appear, with a lion-person.

"Huh, it's some kind of drake," says the lion-person.

"He says he's an otherworldly kind of dragon," corrects Saasnil as though she didn't learn this three degrees ago.

[joyfulnoise]

"Hi," says Joy. "I'm Joy."

[alicornucopia]

"Huh," says Nemaar again. He steps forward and knocks on the empty space above the chalk of the circle; it stops his hand. "All right, so you can do summons."

"Told you," says Saasnil.

[joyfulnoise]

(Joy giggles.)

[alicornucopia]

"I didn't even think you had the CC for this kind of thing," says Nemaar.

"Well, Korulen helped," says Saasnil.

Nemaar blinks. "So, how're you going to send him back, then?"

Korulen blanches.

[joyfulnoise]

"Huh?"

[alicornucopia]

"You can't co-cast a reversal. Oh no," says Korulen.

"That," says Nemaar, "sounds like a problem for you." He leaves the room briskly.

[joyfulnoise]

"What's that mean...?"

[alicornucopia]

"We can't send you home," says Korulen. "I mean - I mean, we'll be able to in a few years - but not now."

[joyfulnoise]

"...oh," says Joy.

He sits down unhappily on the floor.

[alicornucopia]

"I have to tell my mom -"

"No, I'll be expelled!" exclaims Saasnil. "And then I'll never be a wizard -"

"I have to, we can't hide him under a rug or something!"

[joyfulnoise]

[alicornucopia]

"There has to be another way to send him back - can we just send him back -"

"No. He's not native. I have to -"

"No!"

[joyfulnoise]

"Um... if you let me out of the circle I could just go away somewhere and then you wouldn't be in any trouble?" he suggests tentatively.

[alicornucopia]

"That would be much, much worse if we got caught," says Korulen. "I have to tell Mom. You won't even get expelled, Saasnil, you're my backup in case I can't do it even with a familiar."

Saasnil whimpers and sits on her bed.

[joyfulnoise]

Joy has nothing more to contribute at this time.

[alicornucopia]

And then the door opens, and there is a pale human woman with jade green hair standing there.

"Hello, Joy," she says, approaching the circle. "I'm Keo. Do you mind if I do a minimally invasive scan of your mind to make sure you're safe to let out?"

[joyfulnoise]

"...Huh?"

[alicornucopia]

"I have a lot of mind magic. I can let you out of the circle, as long as it's safe, and then you won't be stuck there while Korulen works on being able to send you home," explains Keo. "I won't look at anything that doesn't have to do with whether you're going to hurt people or break laws or things like that."