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Minor Characters ([personal profile] alicornucopia) wrote in [community profile] alicornutopia2015-11-11 10:00 am

on a lark

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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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
(Improvement is good, but he's looking more for lack of significant mistakes than the height of skill.)

Eventually he stops leading, and stops moving, and waits for her.
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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
“Now that you have practiced the motions of your body, it is safe for you to claim it.”
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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
“You could still give yourself weird bruises if you tried. The difference now is that you aren't going to do it by accident because you know what is a normal kind of motion now.”
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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
“You can connect yourself to your other stuff, instead of using stuff you wear like your bracelet. This allows you to support your weight comfortably.”

He demonstrates by rising off the ground a few feet.

“You can reinforce yourself to prevent injury.”

He hits himself on the head with a piece of glass. It goes clank.

“And you can move yourself using stored energy rather than your muscles. That's a bad habit, though, because you want to keep your muscles fit and adding to your stored energy instead.

“Want me to show off a bit?”
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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The birds, which have turned into fully human-seeming bodies instead of just having faces, throw him some more glass. He makes a completely unnecessary throwing gesture and scatters small spikes that bury themselves over a large area of the beach.

Now he's flying without benefit of wings, like the beach is a racetrack and he's doing his qualifying lap.

Back in front of her, he makes as if to jump — and he's a speck in the sky.

Now he's falling down again, head first.
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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
While falling, he flips over, forms spikes on the soles of his feet, and hits the beach without slowing down.

A complimentary glass wall to catch the spray of sand has been provided for the comfort of spectators.

He takes a bow while buried up to his hips.
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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
“Yep! You can't go completely rigid like I did for that all the time or you wouldn't be able to move, or breathe, but you can do a gentler reinforcement that you keep up all the time.”
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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
“Sort of. Your body doesn't have a specific shape, and it doesn't have any rigid parts except for bones. If you want to say things stop after some motion, you have to say they stop relative to something else in particular, and the only way to do that that doesn't lead to hurting yourself or being unable to move is "this part of your body can only move so much relative to the part right next to it" — when I say part I mean like this patch of skin and the patch of skin next to it — and the result you get when you do that all over and smoothly is what I called a gentle reinforcement. It still makes you really tough, but if you did just that and tried to hit the sand like I did, you'd bend and flop instead of smashing the sand. You'd still be safe.”
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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
“I also had spikes on my feet so that they pushed the sand aside. If I hadn't done that I would have gotten just a bit of a crater instead, and not gone into the sand very much. But that difference is more about how sand in particular works.”
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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
“You could get it to grow differently, a little bit, until you finish growing up, but doing that too much can hurt you.

“But if you want to be a different shape on the outside for a while, then it's easy to do that as long as you can fit inside the shape. You saw me being birds.”
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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
“Or whatever, yes, but you can still feel things through it. You can even make eyes and ears in different places, but you have to learn to use them.”
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[personal profile] wind_on_my_face 2015-11-14 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
“For an eye, you use glass for the lens, but you also need some kind of material that reacts to light quickly, like the retina in your regular eyes does. There's a few kinds that are available. For an ear, you want something that is naturally flexible and not brittle to make the parts that vibrate, so you use a little bit of plastic or metal.”
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