on a lark

[alicornucopia]

She combs and combs the world aside and there is another world, just ahead, and she steps in.

The combed-away hole closes behind her. She puts her comb in her pocket.

Thanjen (Unbitwise)

Blueberry (kappa)

Hivers (Rockeye)

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[alicornucopia]

Put.

[or_coincidence]

Blueberry trots across the floor to stand over the necklace, and lowers her horn, and concentrates very hard on casting the spell. Artifact creation is difficult in nearly every way a spell can be difficult - oomph, complexity, demand for precision - but this is a relatively simple artifact as these things go, and it's well within her reach as long as she... tries... very... hard.

And there.

The new amulet flashes once with pale blue light, and then settles down to a barely-there shimmer. "Oof," says Blueberry. "That was hard. All done! Enjoy your new amulet!"

[alicornucopia]

She almost picks it up, then hesitates. "Will it only work if I put it on, or if I'm just holding it too?"

[or_coincidence]

"It only works when you put it on, and even then it waits to turn you into your true form until it would be reasonably safe and comfortable for you to be your true form right then," says Blueberry.

[alicornucopia]

"Comfortable like not falling out of the sky, or..."

[or_coincidence]

"Like not falling out of the sky, or not being a sea serpent on land, or not being a dragon underwater."

[alicornucopia]

She bites her lip a little and picks up the necklace and puts it on. Nothing happens.

[or_coincidence]

"Well, I guess either that's your true form or your true form is something that has trouble moving around on land or doesn't breathe air or is too big to fit in the library," says Blueberry.

[alicornucopia]

She laces her fingers together -

Then abruptly turns into a griffin, with no more fingers to lace. "Ha!"

[or_coincidence]

"Neat!" says Blueberry.

[alicornucopia]

Flap, flap. Not enough to take off, just stretching the wings. To the somewhat limited extent griffins can grin, she is doing that.

[or_coincidence]

Blueberry giggles. "Were you stuck as a human for a long time? Do you want to go outside and fly?"

[alicornucopia]

"I've been stuck as a human for so long! Are - there griffins here, too, not just unicorns, will people think it's weird if I'm out being a griffin?"

[or_coincidence]

"There's griffins! Not very many of them nearby, but they're not unheard of. And Ponyville is a nice, friendly town, I'm sure nopony will pester you."

[alicornucopia]

"Ha. All right. I'm gonna fly. I might not be very good at it right away. Humans can't fly."

Door! The outdoors! Flapping!

[clearthestorm]

The sky is clear of both clouds and ponies, except for a far-off grey pegasus.

[alicornucopia]

She does not need to meet a pegasus right now. She needs to figure out how to make turns correctly. Swoop!

[pythbox]

Blueberry's prediction was correct: nopony pesters her. She can figure out her flying in peace.

[alicornucopia]

Cool.

Swoop! Swoop!

Since she's being left alone... and cannot turn into anything else while in midair... maybe someone else should have a turn. Flying is still fun even if you're not especially supposed to have wings.

Whee!

[pythbox]

The amulet does not indeed turn them into any non-winged things while they are flying around as a griffin. It is such a convenient amulet that way.

[alicornucopia]

How nice.

So Emmy has a turn, and Zix has a short turn, and Clair has a turn and flies higher to see if there is water nearby.

[pythbox]

There's a river! It looks reasonably placid as rivers go, and pretty roomy.

[alicornucopia]

Is there a nice private riverbank?

[pythbox]

There are a few of those available!

[alicornucopia]

She lands on one.

...Emmy has to take a turn to avoid a problem with wet feathers and fur, real quick, and then it's Clair again, and she's in the water.