a little young for that

[alicornucopia]

There is a red-eyed teenage boy - or so it would seem - positively interrogating the bar.

"Redreed wine?"

Aren't you a little young for that?

"I don't actually want any right now, but you know what it is?"

Of course.

"That... is interesting." He taps his fingers on the bar. "All right - I do, actually, want a chocolate iced planet."

And he gets a little square pastry, frosting on the top, and turns on his barstool to watch the comings and goings.

~~~

with Giles

with Lazarus

Comments

[alicornucopia]

"It is morbid and depressing, and no, we don't typically do that, although 'dropping dead on the spot' is how old age tends to get us and I suppose it could coincide with leaking magic."

[nonbird]

"Well, that's good, I guess. I hope that continues not happening except to very old people and possibly stops happening to them somehow. Oh, another question, is there a thing that happens when a dragon has more magic than you do? It seems sort of like there might be but I have no idea what it would look like if there was."

[alicornucopia]

"Yes, I told you there are three power levels. I'm garden-variety. There's also unusuals and uniques. They get more of the per-group powers. The currently only living unique green-group is married to the headmaster of my school," Kaylo adds conversationally.

[nonbird]

"Does this person go to Milliways, and can I meet them?"

[alicornucopia]

"I am not aware of anyone from my world ever having been here before," remarks Kaylo. "It's quite new to me. It's cool, though!"

[nonbird]

"Yes!" says Lazarus. "It contains a lot of magic. Which is why I was surprised that you still managed to stand out."

[alicornucopia]

"Excessively, even," laughs Kaylo.

[nonbird]

"Yes. Yes, that is the word that I used."

[alicornucopia]

"Despite the fact that you promptly established that it'd be very bad if I were one bit less magic," he snorts.

[nonbird]

"Well. Yes," he says. "There's also the other thing you have that isn't in the same container, though. Is that also completely ordinary?"

[alicornucopia]

"The - other thing. Does it look like a hole that is not a hole?" guesses Kaylo.

[nonbird]

"Y...es. Possibly. It looks like a thing that stuff goes through."

[alicornucopia]

"That's probably my channeling capacity, then, it's even more ordinary, nearly everyone from my world has one of those."

[nonbird]

"Oh. Hmm. What does it channel?"

[alicornucopia]

"Wizarding magic from the reservoir, through spells."

[nonbird]

"Aha. Hence why you can't cast spells at Milliways, because the stuff that goes through it isn't anywhere nearby."

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah, it's pretty firmly attached to Elcenia. It's theoretically possible that I could do something with a compatible but not identical reservoir from somewhere else, but it probably wouldn't have the same spells entrained."

[nonbird]

"I wonder what the stuff that goes through it looks like," he says musingly.

[alicornucopia]

"...Well, when I look at it, it looks like whatever the designer of my analysis spell decided to represent it as, which I guess doesn't answer your wondering, does it."

[nonbird]

"It does not! I'd have to see some. Right now all I know is that there isn't any in reach. I would recognize it if I saw it, though. It would have stuff-that-goes-through-the-thingness."

[alicornucopia]

"I'm beginning to suspect that you aren't talking about things with color and opacity, here."

[nonbird]

"Not remotely," he says. "There isn't anything particularly subcategorical about the shade of red that your eyes are, but when I look at the magic, I see it insisting that your shape should have that particular one there. And it's tied to some other things, and all together it has a very subcategorical look."

[alicornucopia]

"That is really very interesting. I wish I could cast an analysis and have a look at your magic right back, but." He waves illustratively at their surroundings.

[nonbird]

"Yes," says Lazarus. "And unfortunately my power doesn't share. Not that you'd have much luck interpreting it if it did, I don't think; it is extremely me and not anyone-else-ish at all."

[alicornucopia]

"I'm occasionally asked to stop speaking in jargon. This is the first time it has occurred to me to ask someone else to start."