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]

"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."

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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!"

[first_and_final]

"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]

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[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.

[first_and_final]

They have all the time in the world, and they are really great.

[ertia]

And she's omnipotent! Which is really great!

[first_and_final]

It's pretty fucking great!

[ertia]

Later:

"So are you going to settle for me being omnipotent to go overthrow your gods or do you want to ramp up on your own, I tried giving you some of my infinite momentum and apparently that is one thing I still can't do."