delta v over delta t when there is no t

[ertia]

In a bar, there is a girl.

She looks like she has saved up all of her decadent and slothful impulses for a solid decade and is indulging them all at once. She is sprawled on a couch with a book she's only half-reading, and an ice cream sundae, and smiiiiiiling.

Comments

[alicornucopia]

You're welcome.

[first_and_final]

He continues to drink his delicious drink.

[ertia]

Kithabel lounges. She accepts food recommendations from Bar and pays her with 'Satrapy sorcery credit', which she explains as deriving from the principle that sorceren are a valuable public good and should not be inconvenienced or delayed in attempting to acquire goods worth less than a certain medium-sized amount. She gets a room and naps and comes back and reads.

[first_and_final]

Milan asks the bar for recommendations of informative or entertaining books from Kithabel's world and then sits down to inhale them.

[ertia]

Her world has a lot of books! Bar is good at picking them. He gets novels and histories and what little tidbits about Kithabel's language Bar can manage in the translation aura of Milliways.

[first_and_final]

He appreciates her help very much.

Books! Book book book. So many book.

[ertia]

And eventually, with a big stack of books to haul home:

"I think I can handle going back to spending every waking hour hard at work imposing my will on the universe now. You want to wrap up?"

[first_and_final]

"Yeah. You said you could find a translation solution somewere, right?"

[ertia]

"I have a friend who's higher-momentum than me, she'll be able to do a translation object, she's offered me one for if I ever traveled outside my linguistic region. Might take her a day or two to swing by, so tell me now if you're allergic to anything, I guess."

[first_and_final]

"Happily no."

[ertia]

"Anything else that's likely to come up in the next day or two...?"

[first_and_final]

"Well, what's going to happen in the next day or two? I stay in your castle and attempt to creatively affect my environment; you go around sorcering and provide me with food and so forth?"

[ertia]

"Yep, that's about the deal."

[first_and_final]

"Have you already asked the knowledgeable interplanar bar for advice and recommendations regarding useful things she can sell us to take home?"

[ertia]

"And seen examples so I can make 'em myself instead of having to haul 'em all through the door, yes."

[first_and_final]

"Oh, excellent, what did you get?"

[ertia]

Kithabel consults her list, which includes things like "the internet" and "spaceships".

[first_and_final]

"Looks like you won't be in danger of running out of things to do anytime soon," Milan remarks.

[ertia]

"Oh yeah."

[first_and_final]

"I'm going to end up having aesthetic issues with the fact that sticking to a project for any length of time is counterproductive, but I can't quite bring myself to complain, at least not ahead of time. Let me just return this batch of books and then I think we're all set."

[ertia]

"You're returning them? Why?"

[first_and_final]

"Because I have finished reading them, except for the appendices of this lengthy work of fiction, and I don't feel like buying them to reread later."

[ertia]

"Ah, fair enough."

Bar accepts the books.

And Kithabel opens the door into her gorgeous palace.

[first_and_final]

Milan brings some converted currency and a few things he did think were worth purchasing from Bar - mainly clothes to replace what he's leaving behind. It all fits in a single backpack.

"Nice castle," he comments before he steps through the door.

[ertia]

"I'll show you around!" says Kithabel, taking off so as not to waste time just standing on the ground. The door shuts behind her and the rest of the tour is incomprehensible, if smilingly delivered.