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]

She checks her gate. It's still not settled. Sigh. "Breakfast?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Sure."

Plants. Plant derivatives.

[imeanforever]

Nom.

"So what is there to do around here during the day?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Damn little, honestly. And going around in broad daylight, you'd be best served to hide the wings if you don't want uninformed humans asking you why you're walking around in a fairy costume and thinking you are insane if you tell them you are a fairy. But we could make a completely legitimate visit to the public library and read about anything other than demons or magic."

[imeanforever]

"I don't know how to make only part of myself invisible."

[eversomuchfun]

"Well, figure out an alternate solution or endure awkwardness and mild social censure, I suppose," he says.

[imeanforever]

"I don't have anything to wear that covers my wings... and I'm actually really terrible at walking, anyway..."

[eversomuchfun]

Snort. "Wonder if Castle can invent a spell to help you with that. She's got an impressive gimmick going there."

[imeanforever]

"I feel like I'd look wrong without wings, but I suppose random mortals wouldn't know that. Mortals don't dress like I do, either, do they?"

[eversomuchfun]

"They generally don't," he agrees.

[imeanforever]

"So I'll look weird no matter what I do, unless you have mortal clothes in my size - and shape, whether my wings can be made invisible or not - on hand."

[eversomuchfun]

"There are degrees of weird available. Pick whichever you like best."

[imeanforever]

"Are there any obvious problems to just going out as I am besides getting weird questions and odd looks?"

[eversomuchfun]

"The less understandable and comfortable someone finds a situation, the less predictable their reaction to that situation. I don't expect someone who notices you flying down the street in broad daylight to get violent, but it's not out of the question that they might. On the other hand, residents of Sunnydale get plenty of opportunity to practice ignoring things they don't understand, so perhaps everyone will just pretend you aren't there or at least aren't flying. I don't have a confident prediction."

[imeanforever]

"I could turn invisible until we get to the library and tuck myself into a corner?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Sure, that seems like a functional patch."

[imeanforever]

Promise consults her map of the room, and after some frowning at it, turns herself invisible.

[eversomuchfun]

To the public library they go!

Tea has no fear that his sunlight ward might fail. His confidence is rewarded by a complete lack of bursting into flames.

[imeanforever]

How nice for him. Promise flutters along after him.

[eversomuchfun]

The public library is definitely bigger than the library in the school. The building itself is smaller than the school, but the library takes up the whole thing instead of being relegated to a few rooms.

Many books are present.

[imeanforever]

Promise goes behind a bookshelf, lands, takes a moment of fumbling with the drunk harmonics to reappear, and then starts looking at books.

[eversomuchfun]

Tea picks up some fiction and sits at a table and reads.

[imeanforever]

Reading! Promise can just read all day, that seems like a plan.

[eversomuchfun]

Yes indeed. Well, unless one of them gets hungry, but Tea seems not to.

[imeanforever]

Promise does, but she doesn't want to haul all the way back to the crypt in the middle of the day. Two meals a day will do it.