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.

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[ertia]

"I -"

As soon as she has a thought she can tell the difference. Things around her twitch. Low momentum means lots of concentration and waiting time. Omnipotence means -

"I'm gonna have to be very careful," she says. "Ummmm."

Okay, first thing she wants is a more accustomed level of control. She doesn't need slow response times, but she does want her magic to respond to intention, not passing whim.

Affecting how you sorcer with sorcery is notoriously impossible.

She's omnipotent and does it anyway.

And then she laughs and laughs and laughs and hugs him tight.

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The outrageously sparkly silver dragon giggles and carefully hugs back. With an outrageously sparkly silver wing.

[ertia]

There is no call to be so careful! Kithabel is impossible to injure! Snuggle.

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Snuggle!

"...I was thinking I'd want to turn humanish again immediately but actually I feel like going flying first," he says. "Wings are cool."

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"Oh, are they?" She sprouts a set. "Huh. Could take or leave 'em." They go away and she rises into the air on her own. "Let's fly."

[first_and_final]

Milan flies.

He is less than perfectly graceful at first, because he's not cheating at flight, he's actually using his actual wings which he has only had for a couple of minutes. But holy shit it's so much fun. And he is kind of getting used to being so outrageously sparkly. Whee!

[ertia]

Kithabel zooms around him, cackling.

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"I am so fucking pleased that you finally get to be omnipotent!" giggles Milan.

[ertia]

"I bet I'm pleaseder!"

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"I am deeply disinclined to make this into a competition!"

[ertia]

"Suit yourself." Zoom! She can make sonic booms! She can go that fast and not make sonic booms! She can make sonic booms that sound like woodwind instruments!

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And Milan has glorious sparkly wings!

"...I'm kind of shamefully delighted about my stupidly ostentatious sparkly silver wings and I might keep them when I turn humanish again!"

[ertia]

"Go for it!"

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"Yeah, I'm gonna do it."

He changes in midair. Now he is humanish sparkly Milan with glorious sparkly silver wings and lovely sparkly silver tail and shining silver dragon eyes (he glimpsed their reflection in the lake and adored them) and he is just a little taller than he used to be, but not that much, and flying with wings continues to be so much fun. Redesigning his clothes on the fly (heh) to fit the wings and tail was kind of hard, but he thinks he did okay.

[ertia]

"Oh. You're. Still really pretty."

[first_and_final]

...Milan grins.

[ertia]

Kithabel looks at him for about six seconds, and then she makes a "fuck it" gesture and kisses him.

[first_and_final]

Flying kisses! THIS IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE HISTORY OF THINGS.

[ertia]

[first_and_final]

[ertia]

So, this is technically a public place. Kithabel does not remodel the Milliways backyard, because she has installed some basic control of her omnipotence.

Instead: now they are in her Milliways room.

[first_and_final]

...They are now in Kithabel's Milliways room!

And still with the kissing!

[ertia]

Definitely with the kissing! That's a thing that's happening!

[first_and_final]

It's so great.

[ertia]

Great things ensue.

...For a while. They have all the time in the world.