picknicking

[dark_light]

There's something unutterably pleasant about landing in a bit of woods in the middle of Nowhere, Manitoba, removing a sandwich and an apple from her backpack and having a picnic before she's ready to move on. She could eat in midair, but it makes it too likely that she'll drop something and find it unrecoverable.

Path's on her knee, and her cloudpine is propped up against the tree next to her.

Comments

[dark_light]

"Gosh, that would be a disaster even if it was adorable, then, you'd be in a permanent state of pout, I won't risk it."

[prodigal_miser]

"Good, I'm glad to see you have an appropriate reaction to potential disasters brought about by pouting."

[dark_light]

"I'm very well calibrated."

[prodigal_miser]

"So I have seen! Keep up the good work, the planes need some more sanity and general good sense."

[dark_light]

"Goddesses all know it. I'm so pleased to have met you."

[prodigal_miser]

He grins back. "Likewise. Goddesses? I didn't know you were religious."

It doesn't bother him in the slightest, he's just curious.

[dark_light]

"I'm not very, but there's a pantheon of witch goddesses, useful to pay attention to for invoking their names for magical purposes."

[prodigal_miser]

"Ooo. They help? That's something I've never heard of before."

[dark_light]

"Yeah, of course they help, if they weren't good for anything I assure you I would ignore them. Not all spells use them, but plenty do. If you change a goddess's name in a verse spell you get a different result."

[prodigal_miser]

Now Adarin is fascinated. Literal goddesses? Helpful literal goddesses? Interesting. He's not going to jump on board the goddesses train just yet, but this is still useful information. Besides, why would he disrespect her beliefs?

"That," he says, "Is both interesting and useful. What kinds of spells invoke their names? What sorts of effects does changing them have?"

[dark_light]

"A whole bunch, and it depends - I mean, sometimes it won't work, if you cast a death spell you need Yambe Akka and nobody else will fit in the surrounding verse. But if I were illuminating an area I'd get different kinds of light if I replaced Segaard Oskei with Amariah Lytess."

[prodigal_miser]

"I think sometime in the future I'd love a demonstration, if you don't mind. I'm curious, now."

He connects the names. "Your second name was chosen after a goddess?"

[dark_light]

"Yeah, that's not uncommon. The goddesses manifestly do not care. My name goddess and my blessing goddess aren't even the same one. I'll light something up for you when it gets dark, how about?"

[prodigal_miser]

Happy grin. "That would be fantastic, thank you. I might have to also sit down and just ask about all of the goddesses, out of sheer curiosity."

[dark_light]

"Sure, there's only seven."

[prodigal_miser]

"Thanks! Again. Perhaps I should just make a sign that says 'Thank you' and hold it up when appropriate, I seem to be doing it a lot..."

[dark_light]

Isabella laughs. "Do you want to stop by somewhere with markers and cardboard when we get you your chamomile?"

[prodigal_miser]

"Hmmm, no, this is more fun. Less impersonal."

[dark_light]

"Okay then. So what other kinda things do you want to kill time with while we wait on thingamajig the second being doable?"

[prodigal_miser]

"You know better than I of what to do here. Any interesting things to see, or do?"

[dark_light]

"Hmm, a lot of common recreation is ruled out for me because I'm too clumsy to go bowling or ice skating or whatever... library is still closed, tomorrow it will be open though... I guess we could just loiter around Metis's house until it gets dark and then I can glow rocks with various goddesses' light and then we can go to sleep but maybe I'm just failing to think of something."

[prodigal_miser]

"Loitering around your teacher's house works for me. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about my world or anything you're curious about. Would you like me to cook?"

[dark_light]

"Ooh, you can cook?"

[prodigal_miser]

"I can! I wouldn't say I'm the best cook ever, and trying to get, say, fancy frosting on a cake right is a nightmare that I don't want to tackle - but I can make edible things that taste reasonably nice."

[dark_light]

"I'll show you how the kitchen appliances work, you can determine if you're confident in operating them. Or you could use the firepit, I guess." Cloudpine is rendered afloat.