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.

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[prodigal_miser]

"Hmm. Just one, I think."

He motions to the silvery moonglow one. Amariah Lytess' light - Vern is looking like she's trying very hard not to laugh.

[dark_light]

Path catches Vernaia's eye again and blinks slowly.

Isabella scoops up the moonlight rock. "All right. You can watch me mix up the potion if you want."

[prodigal_miser]

She gives Path an amused, somewhat expectant glance right back. What, do you want him to write a letter? This is more fun.

"I'd love to, though I'm not sure if much is involved in the creation of the potion," says Adarin.

[dark_light]

"It's not complicated." She takes the rock inside and gets a little bowl. She mixes one part each vinegar and orange juice with a drop of rosewater and sprinkles oregano on it, drops the rock into the result, and then dumps the whole thing out in the sink, catching the still-glowing rock before it rolls down the drain and rinsing it before handing it over.

[prodigal_miser]

He watches with interest, happy that him being silly and wanting a glowing rock isn't going to cost her much in particular. Adarin takes the rock and pockets it, smiling faintly.

"It's still interesting. Thank you, by the way."

[dark_light]

"You're welcome! If I'd expected you to keep one I might have sought a prettier rock..."

[prodigal_miser]

"I think it's pretty all by itself," he declares loftily, loyal to his rock.

[dark_light]

"A chunk of quartz would've turned out nicer. Oh well. It's three lines of verse, I can do another rock for you if you encounter another rock you think would look nice doing an impression of the full moon."

[prodigal_miser]

"Aw, thank you. At this rate... We're going to become magic rock collectors, you realize."

[dark_light]

"I don't suppose you can make a bag hold an arbitrary amount of stuff without weighing more."

[prodigal_miser]

"I'm afraid not. I could put a portal in a bag and have it connect to a storage space, though. Not quite the same thing, but it could work. Why?"

[dark_light]

"...I want a portal bag. I want a portal bag very much."

[prodigal_miser]

He laughs. "I will add it to the ever-growing list of magical things to do when I can safely. Do you want it sooner but only able to work within this plane, or a little later and able to work wherever?"

[dark_light]

"Later. I'm not accumulating objects that fast."

[prodigal_miser]

"Alright. Do you have a spot in mind for the portal bag to connect to, or is this just a general desire?"

[dark_light]

"I'll scope out what the alethiometer can give me when I ask it for claimable random landspace. Maybe I'll have a house in it."

[prodigal_miser]

"Works for me. Do you have a specific kind of location in mind, or do you just want something no one else has claim to?"

[dark_light]

"If I got to design the place instead of scavenging I'd want nice weather, no close geographical proximity to any witch clan's lands, and - how big do portals get? Could you drive a truck through one? That'll affect if I want to be near a city."

[prodigal_miser]

"Yes, you can - I can make a portal however big the surface I'm making it on is, so if a wall is big enough to fit a truck, the portal can be big enough if I make it with a truck's size in mind."

[dark_light]

"Oh, I didn't realize it had to be on a surface - you can't just make it standing up in the air?"

[prodigal_miser]

"Technically, I could, but - destroy whatever the portal's on or move it extremely significantly and it breaks. Air is extremely mobile and a portal would be unstable and not last very long. I was going to be sneaky and put your portal up in the air against, say, a sheer cliff, or something similar. It doesn't have to look like a portal, we just usually make it do that because it's more convenient."

[dark_light]

"Oh, I see. Huh. That makes it more complicated, especially if I want people to be able to drive in and out... I'll think on it."

[prodigal_miser]

Adarin nods. "It's still a smart idea, though. Bwuahaha, capitalism."

[dark_light]

"I have no special architectural magic, so if they don't just freestand it's more complicated."

[prodigal_miser]

"I can reshape stone, but I don't have a particular talent for it. I could maybe make something, but... Eeeeh," he says. "Probably not structurally sound."