high-energy physics

[warpfairy]

Federation political prisons are not particularly uncomfortable. She's not going anywhere, but she can read, she's considering taking up an instrument, the only really awkward thing is that she doesn't particularly want to be supervised while she's sweating her way through her next pon farr one way or another but that's years off. That and she wishes she'd taken longer to get caught. But she was running out of the really low-hanging fruit anyway.

This is what she signed up for. She makes up imaginary profiles of people on the planets she got to, people who can live longer fuller lives with the stars in reach, one per day. One per day and she'll have loads of estimated impact left unused when she dies. Perfectly reasonable tradeoff and she can still read books.

Someone wants to interview her about Vulcan; they don't want to lose anything that anybody remembers; she gives the interview and then picks up some poetry.

Comments

[lintamande]

"...a more selective teleport, maybe a teleport that takes other people and not you, would be a good next spell if we are expecting trouble. Also, those personal space rings you tried for someone in the Outer Lands! They work!"

[subtly_artistic]

"Oh good! Maybe we can work out an arrow deflection variant that works on energy weapons too."

[lintamande]

Rúmil nods. "I think Fëanáro's parents would be very much happier if they learned he had spells so that no one could touch him without permission or fire on him at all. And that reduces risk rather neatly."

[subtly_artistic]

Bella puts it on the list.

[lintamande]

The Quendi would also like to build themselves a nicer house. This one is a little stressful to live in.

[warpfairy]

T'Mir is perfectly happy living in her ship but it's not really designed for more than one person to inhabit.

[subtly_artistic]

Bella magicked herself a bungalow like the one she magicked on Tol Eressëa. The spell should be adaptable to non-bungalow designs if desired.

[lintamande]

The design is very non-bungalow; it has three stories and a stream running through it.

[warpfairy]

"...why do they need three stories?" T'Mir asks Bella.

[subtly_artistic]

"...Quendi?" offers Bella helplessly.

[lintamande]

They mostly work on it when the not-Quendi are sleeping.

[warpfairy]

Which the non-Quendi do on a regular basis. The day cycle of this moon is a little longer than Earth days, which seem to be similar to Materian days. But T'Mir can stay up longer than Bella can, a week if she really wants to.

[lintamande]

Fëanáro is baffled that anyone who could only sleep once a week wouldn't do that.

[warpfairy]

"It's not very comfortable and I can do less and less complicated and interesting things the less recently I've slept," she explains. "Besides, now I have mana to worry about."

[lintamande]

"Mana is pretty annoying to worry about," he agrees.

[warpfairy]

"I usually find that going two days without sleep is plenty if I want to do anything more complicated than read or listen to music, anyway, and learning and doing magic and studying law and diplomacy and such is definitely more complicated than that."

[lintamande]

"I get more energized the more I work."

[warpfairy]

"That's very lucky for you, then."

[lintamande]

"I do fall asleep eventually though. I'm going to find magic to fix that." He scowls.

[warpfairy]

"But then how will you get mana?"

[lintamande]

"Don't know yet. I'll find a way."

They finish the house a few days later. It is in fact gorgeous.

[warpfairy]

For which they receive all appropriate compliments.

[lintamande]

Bellas can stay too, if they'd like! All the glass is to Bella's credit anyway. And there is a lot of glass, stone thin enough to be translucent is a hard trick to pull off outside Valinor.

[warpfairy]

It's very nice, but T'Mir is fine in her ship. It's cozy and she's used to it and it has her ship computer in it.

[subtly_artistic]

Bella's all settled into her bungalow, too, but of course will visit.