blood sweat tear

[imeanforever]

He's moving her to a different court to see if it'll improve her attitude. She's allowed to fly. It's been a long, long time since she was allowed to -

She is only allowed to fly to her destination, not anywhere else. She notices that she is not where she should be, that she cannot progress to where she was told to go, and she careens out of control when her wings won't flap anymore, and she crashes.

---

with Miles (kappa)

with Minus (kappa)

Comments

[imeanforever]

"I just started in my tree. Childhoods sound inconvenient."

[thisvorlunatic]

"They have their ups and downs."

[imeanforever]

"I suppose."

What a pretty round location.

[thisvorlunatic]

It is pretty! And round. Well, the planet is round. The local geography mostly isn't.

Silver overflies a small lake high in the mountains. It seems to give him emotions, but that might just be him continuing to think about the existence and properties of Fairyland.

[imeanforever]

Promise doesn't ask.

[thisvorlunatic]

Well, then she won't find out.

Back to the lake house they go. Zoom.



"Even suspending the question of practical obstacles, if I could hypothetically have wings but it made it awkward to fly a lightflyer I'm not sure I'd make the trade. I'm very fond of lightflyers."

[imeanforever]

"There are a lot of kinds of fairy wings. Some of them allow sitting on chairs with backs comfortably."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Well. There are still plenty of practical obstacles."

[imeanforever]

"Yes. For instance, I don't know how to turn anyone into a fairy, and even if I could it might count as a harmful spell the same way turning you into a sparrow would."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Turning me into a sparrow would count as harmful?"

[imeanforever]

"Yes. Well, probably, if you really wanted me to turn you into a sparrow I might be able to, there's a little flex around what one construes as harm."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I don't yearn to be a sparrow. It's just - well, slightly unsettling but also kind of intriguing that turning people into sparrows is an option," he says. "And very interesting that it's defined as harm."

[imeanforever]

"Animals can't talk. Or use most of the active fairy kind magics. Or do sorcery. And are pretty physically harmless."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yes, I see what you mean. I suppose that where killing someone is not even theoretically possible, that tactical role gets filled with things like 'turn into sparrow'."

[imeanforever]

"Well. More often 'turn into snail'. But yes."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Is it possible to turn a mortal into a fairy...? I'm asking mostly out of theoretical curiosity; I'm not at all sure I'd like the tradeoffs."

[imeanforever]

"I've never heard of it being done. I doubt it, but it could be theoretically possible somehow."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I'd also be fairly surprised if it turned out to qualify as harm, especially given the reasons why turning someone into a sparrow does," he says. "On the other hand - turning someone into a sparrow doesn't make them mortal, right? Which sparrows traditionally are. So turning a mortal into a fairy might not accomplish the reverse, in which case it would be a much less useful trick. Still handy if you really want wings, I guess. Hmm, is it possible to turn a fairy into a different kind of fairy, with a different set of wings?"

[imeanforever]

"Not that I know of, but maybe. It might just be cosmetic, though, I would be more likely to have heard of it if it did something more potentially useful like change fairy kind magics around."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah. Which seems to me to imply that turning mortals immortal won't work, or at least won't work like that."

He lands the lightflyer.

[imeanforever]

Promise gets out and pokes her gate. It is not settled yet.

[thisvorlunatic]

Silver goes into the house.

[imeanforever]

Promise considers, then follows him.

[thisvorlunatic]

He sits at his comconsole and starts playing that game again. It's very fast and shiny.

[imeanforever]

It is very fast and shiny!

Promise watches him for two and a half minutes, then goes elsewhere to do her own shiny thing. (It is thinking. With fairylights. That is her shiny thing.)