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[campanas]

Pen' was just going to go practice singing. (She likes singing. The words are all lined up for her already and she doesn't get them wrong.) But this doesn't look like the practice room. So it's probably the magic restaurant.

Pen knows about the magic restaurant! You can go in it, and get food or things to drink (she has bracelets!) and then you just go back out the door and it's been no time at all and you're right where you went in.

She goes in. She is going to have cake.

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[aestrix]

The dragonness waves a claw, and several illusions dispell. A pleasant little dragon home is revealed. It's made entirely out of stone, but due to magic it's all nicely carved and decorated. Lovely supporting archways, along with some dragon-sized side-rooms branching off of the main room.

Completing the proper dragon look, the main room is absolutely huge, and filled to the brim with treasure. Gold, silver, ivory, pearls, gemstones, tacky gem-encrusted golden statues, and dozens of other extremely expensive objects.

It's likely that this is the largest quantity of gold and riches in physical form Rose has ever seen.

Hmmm, muses the dragonness. It seemed too small before, you know. Now it just seems tacky.

Yvae giggles, a little. She jumps towards the gold hoard, and goes sliding down one of the many piles, making an, Eeeeeee! sound as she goes. It looks rather fun, and her scales are protecting her nicely.

Though maybe worthwhile for that purpose, muses her mother.

[beheld_beauty]

Rose laughs when Yvae slides. "I cannot usefully advise you on the practical purpose of a large pile of precious metals and stones. I have never had reason to acquire one. I do not recommend you dump it all on a small population of humans in a lump sum, though, there are complicated economic results."

[aestrix]

Indeed. I'm not even sure what we'll do with it all, she says. We might just keep it because we don't know what else to do with it.

Meanwhile, Ilayse is flying with Pen. She does wonderful little loops in the air, giggling all the while.

[beheld_beauty]

"It's up to you. At any rate, I can render all of you torchable now, although fair warning - it doesn't look or feel like anything. You won't be able to tell I've done it unless you care to test it."

[aestrix]

Please go ahead. I'm not sure we'd want to test it, considering the circumstances, but... I do expect it to not fail, says the dragonness. It's not a threat, not exactly, but it's incredibly likely that she will not be pleased if any of her children die and they don't turn out to be immortal.

[beheld_beauty]

"It will not fail. I'm sure it can be arranged if you want someone to demonstrate torching who is not related to you, but that would not prove that I'd done it for your family, I suppose." She applies the failsafe to each of the children and then to both parents, one at a time. "There you are."

[aestrix]

Thank you, says the mother-dragon.

Pyranir goes running up to Rose, toothy grin on his little face. You're a nice human!

[beheld_beauty]

"I like to think so," Rose says.

[aestrix]

Do you like bunnies? he asks. If she says yes, he will probably love her forever.

[beheld_beauty]

"I think bunnies are very cute."

Also delicious, but that is probably not the the aspect of her liking bunnies that she should bring up here. At any rate she hasn't eaten any meat that was nonmagical in origin in years.

[aestrix]

Eeeee! says Pyranir, and then Rose gets snuggled by a baby dragon.They are very cute! I keep trying to get mommy to let us have a pet, but she says feeding them would be difficult.

Ah, yes. His true purpose; 'Nice magic lady, please get me a pet bunny.'

[beheld_beauty]

Hugs. "I did not think bunnies were so hard to feed. Is there something else going on I don't know about?"

[aestrix]

Privately, the mother informs Rose, We are worried a pet bunny would be accidentally stepped on and it would break his heart.

It's hard to bring things aaaaall the way up here! We don't go down that much, so any food I got would spoil before I could get more, explains Pyranir.

[beheld_beauty]

[Perhaps,] Rose suggests to the mother dragon, [a large winged bunny would be sufficiently maneuverable and easy to keep track of?]

She does not poke holes in the flimsiness of the food explanation for Pyranir.

[aestrix]

Certainly. If such a creature exists - perhaps some time in the future we could have one as a pet.

She doesn't know that Rose can just make animals. There is no expectation if Rose doesn't want to, here.

[beheld_beauty]

[My second daughter wanted a griffin. None are conventionally available as pets, so I made her one. As long as I'm here... Well, I would need to call in my husband to help me with the enchantment, but it is more likely than not that he would not mind. Though perhaps it would be best saved for when I am already about to leave, and I do not think that Pen is done flying with your daughter or that her mother would appreciate my leaving her unattended.]

[aestrix]

The dragonness peers at Rose, a little surprised! Certainly. That would be fine, she says, after a moment. Thank you. We don't mind waiting.

Mommy, asks Yvae, once she's done playing on the hoard of treasure. What are the dragons from other worlds like?

I don't know, dear heart. I've never met one, she replies, reasonably.

[beheld_beauty]

"In Thilanushinyel, there are only a handful of them. There was a near-extinction and they are coming back slowly and with magical help," says Rose. "They come in various sizes and colors, but being dragons, they are of course winged and quadrupedal and scaly and much larger than a human. Several of them come to Bell parties when we throw them. I have not met a Chronicle dragon, although Glass, who you saw, counts at least one among her friends. I think Materia may have dragons, but people who are not originally from Materia are not advised to visit it. It has - unkind laws of nature."

[aestrix]

Oooooo, says Yvae. Then she looks up at her mommy. Can I go meet some? I want to see! There might be another purple one, like me!

Her mother snickers, a little. Perhaps, but not to Materia, on Rose's recommendation. She only just got here, though - don't you want to learn more about her world?

Yvae thinks about this, for a little while, then looks at Rose. ... Is it mean for me to say I want to meet the dragons?

[beheld_beauty]

"I do not mind. I'll go put a Janepoint somewhere, and while I'm doing it she will ask dragons if they want to come here and meet you. Perhaps they will."

[aestrix]

Eeeeee! squeals Yvae, doing a little hop and flying around the home with excitement. She gets to meet dragons! Other dragons, from other worlds! Eeeeee!

Pyranir nuzzles Rose, a little. I like you. Don't worry, Yvae's just rude.

That gets him a face, from his sister. Am not!

Are too! replies her brother.

They would continue on like this for a while, unless interrupted.

[beheld_beauty]

Rose does not interrupt them. She teleports into orbit around the nearest star that is not the sun of this planet, checks it for sapient life in its system, finds none, and deploys an orbital Janepoint with a self-contained environment so visitors do not strictly need to be able to survive in vacuum very close to a star.

And she puts out the query.

[pythbox]

Of the Thilanushinyel dragons, Elasirae is curious enough to go and visit the strange world.

[beheld_beauty]

Back to the dragons' cave teleports Rose. "Elasirae is a Thilanushinyel dragon - in fact, he is an alt of Lazarus, who you met earlier - and he would like to visit. Jane can bring him here now if you would like."

[aestrix]

That would be fine, says the mother, after a brief consultation with her mate.

Yvae is so excited. Absurdly excited. She even stops arguing with her brother to flap around the room, making a little, Eeeeeee! as she goes.

It's around this time that Procellor lands, finished with his overly complicated 'distraction' and updated on what's going on. His mate has informed him of it all - he's fine with an otherworldly visitor. Yvae goes and cuddles him in greeting.

Daddy, daddy! There's going to be a dragon from another world! We get to meet him!

So I've heard, he says, snickering a little.