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]

"Unbonded dragons live forever," explains the dragon. "Bonded ones die with our bondmate - one goes, the other's out too. But if we have two Bondmates at once - or I suppose possibly more - then if a Bondmate dies, the dragon needn't, and can find another Bondmate and chain forward like that indefinitely."

[first_and_final]

"What, er, happens if the dragon dies?"

[alicornucopia]

"Well, we're sort of hard to kill and this hasn't actually happened since we noticed the bondmate chaining thing a couple thousand years ago. But probably the bondmates die."

[first_and_final]

"That sounds inconvenient."

[alicornucopia]

"I'd imagine so, yes."

[first_and_final]

"If you'd like to meet Kithabel I can go find her and ask whether she wants to see if she finds you mesmerizingly beautiful. What is dragon-having like?"

[alicornucopia]

"Well, at first it's a little oversharey. That fades out a few minutes later and it boils down to being good at cooperating, especially with magic. Some empathy, for some pairs."

[first_and_final]

"Define 'oversharey'...?"

[alicornucopia]

"Mutual thought awareness. Not all your deepest secrets, unless your response to mutual thought awareness is to immediately think about all your deepest secrets."

[first_and_final]

Snort. "Very good to know, thank you. Oh, I've forgotten to introduce myself. I'm Milan."

[alicornucopia]

"Kiaver."

[first_and_final]

"Pleased to meet you."

[alicornucopia]

"Likewise. What-all do you do with your magic, anyway?"

[first_and_final]

"I solve problems! Do you have any problems in need of solving?"

[alicornucopia]

"Well, every few millennia the Dark shows up and Darks some things, and that's usually bad news... I'm not sure if that's the sort of problem you mean."

[first_and_final]

"Problems I have solved in the last week include: someone needed a road where there was not previously a road, so I made one, complete with bridge. There was a large fire in a medium-sized town and I put it out and restored some buildings that had burned down. Assorted changes to the weather. Assorted healing of injury, illness, and in one case infertility. Growing a garden. Stopping a flood."

[alicornucopia]

"I'm not immediately aware of anything like that. If I was it's more or less the sort of thing my Bonded would handle."

[first_and_final]

"It's good to have people around to handle these sorts of things."

[alicornucopia]

"I agree," says Kiaver.

[first_and_final]

"Well, if you think of any problems we might be able to help solve, do let me know. I think I'll go see if Kithabel's awake."

[alicornucopia]

"I will be here in this pleasant lake."

[first_and_final]

"It's very pleasant!"

He destroys/mists/re-lakes his various dancing bits of water, and then goes looking for Kithabel.

[ertia]

Kithabel's in her room, but no longer asleep; she's sitting up with a notebook and lets him in when he knocks. "Hey you."

[first_and_final]

"Hi. So I found a dragon in the lake," he says. "Her world sounds interesting and she might conceivably be able to help you cheat at momentum as is right and proper."

[ertia]

Kithabel laughs. "Yeah, how?"