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

[thisvorlunatic]

"...I see."

[imeanforever]

"Vassalizing her would let somebody who really wanted to fix most of the things about the place. But it's incompatible with vassalization no longer existing at all."

[thisvorlunatic]

"If you want any help with that I can maybe bring myself to accept such a fundamentally inadequate solution."

[imeanforever]

"I might. But - not soon."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah."

[imeanforever]

Hand out. Berry fall. Nom.

"If you ever really want to know what fairy food tastes like the haws are safe for you but the other things might leave you open to other claims unless I hand-fed them to you," she mentions. "Not that I expect you're burning with curiosity about it."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I'm a curious person in general but I think I can pass on this particular information."

[imeanforever]

Nod.

[thisvorlunatic]

"Anyway. I'm glad you've got your tree going now. It's a nice tree."

[imeanforever]

"Thank you!"

[thisvorlunatic]

[imeanforever]

Promise grows her tree some more. She can't fit completely inside it yet, but she can make a hollow in it big enough to sit in. She does that, humming to herself.

[thisvorlunatic]

Silver goes inside to call his mother.

When he comes back out again he reports, "My mother picked the nickname Copper. She says she'll come by soon, maybe in the next few hours. And she'll deal with all the arrangements for making sure the locals don't wander by and cause a fuss."

[imeanforever]

"That's good."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah."

[imeanforever]

"I hope I'm not too much of a disruption for all these people."

[thisvorlunatic]

"The disruption to the locals will be minimal. I'm sure my mother can fit a few more things into her schedule without too much trouble, and the Emperor I expect to be actively delighted about any disruption that ends in functional instantaneous transit between worlds, even if it causes a bit of a security headache in the meantime."

[imeanforever]

"Okay."




By the time Copper has arrived, the tree is too big around to hug, and Promise is putting a fence in around her crops.

[greatcomposure]

Another lightflyer lands by the house; Silver identifies it as his mother's vehicle and goes to greet it; a few minutes later, a new mortal comes around the side of the house and approaches Promise's tree.

She's really tall. Maybe all mortals are like that and Silver is just some sort of exception, but in comparison to either her son or Promise, Copper is really tall.

"Hello," she says.

[imeanforever]

"Hello."

[greatcomposure]

"You can call me Copper. I'm told you can do magic. Would you mind demonstrating and explaining some of that for me?"

[imeanforever]

Promise makes some hovering fairylights, then turns and grows her tree another several feet. "What kind of explanation do you want?"

[greatcomposure]

"I'm curious about how it works and what sorts of things it can do. What I've specifically been asked to verify is that it can do things that would be hard to accomplish without magic, but that can be difficult to verify. I don't think I've heard of anyone being able to grow a tree that quickly, but it wouldn't astonish me if someone could. I'm told you can heal injuries much more effectively than a mundane doctor or medtech, but I don't have any injured people on hand to test that with."

[imeanforever]

"Silver saw me fix my broken hand and black eye... I'm not really keen on replicating either." Pause. "I can move my tree around." The tree waves its branches more energetically and irrespective of wind than trees are normally wont to do.

[greatcomposure]

"I wouldn't ask you to injure yourself just to prove a point. But... hm. What sorts of things can you heal? If someone had a very old injury that mostly didn't trouble them anymore, could you heal it without knowing what it was?"