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]

"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?"

[first_and_final]

"Dragons from her world can be 'had', a process which apparently involves looking at the dragon and finding them mesmerizingly beautiful and then a few minutes of mutual thought awareness, and after that the dragon-haver can access the dragon's magic through whatever variety of magic they could do already. I did not find her mesmerizingly beautiful, which is just as well because of the two of us I'd rather you ended up with a dragon, you hardly get to cheat at all and it's very unfair."

[ertia]

"...Well, the few minutes of mutual thought awareness is pretty freaky but maybe a small price to pay..."

[first_and_final]

"I can introduce you to the dragon. Probably nothing interesting will happen, but it seems the sort of thing that might conceivably be worth a shot."

[ertia]

"Yeah, lemme psych myself up first in case she's so pretty she reads my mind."

[first_and_final]

"Take your time."

[ertia]

"I will. You can sit with me if you want." She picks up her notebook.

[first_and_final]

"Sure. Oh, and there are more notable drawbacks - if all of a dragon's Bondmates are dead at the same time, the dragon dies, and it's theorized that the dragon dying would kill all the Bondmates but it apparently hasn't happened yet, but dragons are apparently very hard to kill except by Bondmate deprivation. Kiaver in particular has one current Bondmate."

[ertia]

"Maybe she would like to name a dead dragon for us to try resurrecting. You might be there already, we only don't have your grandfather because we need to know if I can resurrect from your world."

[first_and_final]

"I could absolutely try resurrecting some dead dragons if Kiaver cooperates."

[ertia]

"Awesome."

Kithabel thinks for twenty minutes of notebooking. She absently scritches Milan's hair with her free hand while lost in thought.

[first_and_final]

...Well that's new.

Sure, okay.

[ertia]

Scritch scritch write write.

"...Okay, I think it's probably worth gazing at the dragon, presuming she thinks it'll be fine to have a long-distance magical relationship."

[first_and_final]

"I can go ahead of you to ask her."

[ertia]

"Yes please."

And her hand leaves his scalp.

[first_and_final]

Entirely reasonable of it.

Off to the lake goes Milan.

[ertia]

Kithabel lags behind in the main bar area.

The lake: contains a dragon.

"What did your friend say?"