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

[no_return]

"...Metaphorically convince, right, it doesn't have a literal mind I'm bossing around?"

[ertia]

"Right. This is about your mental posture; the tile is just a tile and even the magic ambient to the world isn't actually awake."

[no_return]

"Okay, just making sure."

So...

If he's going to become the omnipotent ruler of a planet he's going to have to get used to enforcing his will on things sooner or later. That tile needs to change colour because if it doesn't, he can't become omnipotent and take over the world, and it is very important that he become omnipotent and take over the world. So the tile is just going to have to deal, metaphorically speaking, with its new life in a lovely lavender-and-white swirling pattern.

[ertia]

"Pretty," comments Kithabel. "Okay, so when you meet a compatible dragon that ought to line up neatly." She shuts the door and opens it to dragons-and-unicorns-land again. "Would the Wild Magic care to identify the dragon it has in mind?" she asks Liselen.

[pythbox]

"...It says they're not any of the dragons we know about. Is there another dragon somewhere? Have they been sleeping all this time or something?" he wonders.

[ertia]

"...Well, I'll see if that'll do the trick."

Hey hermit dragon.

[pythbox]

Yes?

[ertia]

The Wild Magic says you won't mind Bonding with this guy I found who I wish to make omnipotent ruler of a planet.

[pythbox]

...And why do you want to do that?

[ertia]

It needs the attention, evil dictatorship kind of situation - I can't just extinguish some ravening fiends or fix an environmental hazard and call it done - but I don't want to move there permanently myself.

[pythbox]

Fair enough. How do you plan on introducing me to this person?

[ertia]

I can just teleport you to the door to the interdimensional bar if you don't have any further questions before he stares at you and finds you mesmerizingly beautiful.

[pythbox]

'Door' sounds... biped-sized. I am not biped-sized. Will there be room?

[ertia]

Yes.

[pythbox]

Can you bring my Bondmate as well?

[ertia]

You already have one? Are they also on board with maybe moving to another universe?

[pythbox]

Did the Wild Magic not tell you that?

[ertia]

The unicorn representing the Wild Magic did not mention it.

[pythbox]

What a curious oversight.

[ertia]

"Liselen, you didn't mention this dragon was already taken."

[pythbox]

"What? Are they? How'd they manage that? You'd think someone would've noticed... and the Wild Magic didn't say anything... I'm confused."

[ertia]

"Perhaps we should resolve this confusion before introducing the hermit dragon to Jewel. Why might the Wild Magic not have noticed? Or did I find the wrong hermit dragon?"

[pythbox]

"No, now I am even more confused," he says. "You didn't find the wrong hermit dragon. The dragon and their Bonded are the same person as each other, and also sort of the same person as Jewel but differently. Does that make any more sense to you than it does to me? Because it doesn't make very much sense to me at all."

[ertia]

"...No, that makes no sense at all."

[pythbox]

"It does explain perfectly why the Wild Magic didn't mention it before, because it said there was a dragon that wouldn't mind doing the things, and the way it said it definitely also included other people who are the same person as that dragon. I just wasn't expecting there to be anyone like that."