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.

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with Miles (kappa)

with Minus (kappa)

Comments

[imeanforever]

"Doing tests sounds reasonable."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah. So. What sort of information do you need in order to make a gate? Would I have to show you pictures of a suitable test location, or actually take you there, or what?"

[imeanforever]

"You mean if you want me to make the gate from the Fairyland end? I was planning on having the Fairyland ends all be too high up to fly to prevent accidents, as long as I can make them from here at all."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Travel time to the nearest other inhabited planet we might want to gate to is a week. Making the Fairyland ends all too high to fly to is a good idea, but if you can make a gate from Fairyland to a desired location with some amount of information, it'll be a whole lot faster to make the gates from the Fairyland side anyway, perhaps by taking a lightflyer or small shuttle through to Fairyland so you have somewhere to sit while you construct them. For testing purposes, though, I can probably take you to an uninhabited planet that's as close as a few hours' travel away."

[imeanforever]

"Lightflyers don't need much air to fly in?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"They need some air, but I could look for one that didn't need as much. Or use a shuttle, which is bigger but has no air-related requirements."

[imeanforever]

"I don't know exactly how much air there is at various altitudes so a shuttle's probably better."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Logical. And... hm. Making gates across pressure differentials seems like it might lead to things like my planet losing a lot of air. Maybe we should be testing that in a nearby uninhabited system, unless you happens to know for sure that air doesn't cross gates by itself...?"

[imeanforever]

"...I don't think it does. I can check. My tree is airtight. If you have a candle I can leave it in there and go check on it later."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Sure, I'll get a candle."

He finds a candle somewhere in the house.

[imeanforever]

Promise brings it into her tree, lights it, and leaves.

"I can't be in there while it's burning and have it be a good test, I can breathe through my wings."

[thisvorlunatic]

"...because they're leaves?"

[imeanforever]

"Yes."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Well, that... makes sense."

[imeanforever]

"But if it's still going in another fifteen or twenty minutes that will mean it's getting air from here, even though it's definitely not enough of it to make a noticeable draft."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah."

[imeanforever]

"My tree here doesn't have windows either. I hope you didn't think I was suffocating in my sleep."

[thisvorlunatic]

Snort. "I assumed that you had some solution or other. You don't strike me as the sort of person who would forget to include air holes in your dwellings if you needed them."

[imeanforever]

[thisvorlunatic]

[imeanforever]

Eventually Promise goes and checks on the candle. She brings it out of her tree unlit. "Doesn't transmit air."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Okay, that's a very comforting result."

[imeanforever]

"It's also a lot warmer here than in my tree, so I think I would have noticed anyway, but yes."

[thisvorlunatic]

"When it comes to things that might potentially send significant portions of my planet's atmosphere spewing into an infinite void, I like to be sure."

[imeanforever]

"That is reasonable."