something she can use

[alicornucopia]

Ehail blinks, when she finds the bar instead of her room.

She goes in.

She looks out the window, at the exploding things.

"I don't think this is my planet," she observes to herself, tucking silver hair behind her ear.

~~~

with Elysse

with Lazarus

Comments

[alicornucopia]

"Okay." Ehail makes three more sixes and hands them over.

[prima_sequentem]

"Thank you."

She takes a few seconds to ponder, and then two of the coins disappear.

"There. When you make coins they'll automatically go into storage, you can consult storage at any time to tell how many of what kinds in what colours are in there - there's not much practical purpose to knowing the colours, but there wasn't a good reason not to, either - and take coins either 'halfway' out, so they're only substantial enough to you for you to wish on them and aren't apparent to anyone else at all, or all the way out so you can hand them to someone else. Lazarus, would you like one too?"

[nonbird]

"That is much more elegant than what you previously had," he says. "If I'm being drafted as a dragon completion assistant, then - yes, I suppose, all right."

[prima_sequentem]

She wishes on the third six. "There."

[alicornucopia]

"Miracle-worker," suggests Ehail, when Lazarus says "dragon completion assistant".

[nonbird]

"Dragon completion assistant might be more fun to say," he says contemplatively. "And less self-aggrandizing."

[alicornucopia]

"You'll be called it anyway. It's a miracle. I'm a miracle."

[nonbird]

"Well. Okay then."

[alicornucopia]

Ehail sets about making the eight-pointed ones, slightly stiff but not complaining.

[prima_sequentem]

"At some convenient moment I can take us back to Lazarus's place," Libby mentions. "Or anywhere else, for that matter, but I'm not getting much of a tourist vibe from you."

[alicornucopia]

"Not really," agrees Ehail. "I do think maybe when all the miracles have been handed out I might fly to the moon..."

[prima_sequentem]

"There's no particular reason not to show you our moon while you're here," she says. "If you're interested, and feel like sparing a six to take care of the atmosphere problem. I'm not sure what your situation is exactly, but around here, we need to breathe air and the moon doesn't have any."

[alicornucopia]

"...Why wouldn't it have any?"

[prima_sequentem]

"Air collects around planets and places much smaller than planets aren't big enough to collect any. If you want a more complete and rigorous answer, I have an astrophysicist on call."

[alicornucopia]

"I suppose that suffices. There must just be less air here in general, I suppose."

[prima_sequentem]

"Seems like a reasonable theory."

[alicornucopia]

"It's not any trouble? Regardless of the no air thing?"

[prima_sequentem]

"Not at all. The slight amount of trouble it could potentially be would be covered if you gave me a six so I could arrange for the no air thing not to be a problem."

[alicornucopia]

Ehail momentarily downshifts to six, hands over a six, and goes back to accumulating eights.

[prima_sequentem]

"Thank you."

She contemplates the six for a few seconds, then wishes on it. "There. We will be covered if I teleport us to the moon. Shall I?"

[nonbird]

"Goodness," says Lazarus. "That's certainly comprehensive. Why not?"

[alicornucopia]

Ehail nods.

[prima_sequentem]

And then they are on the moon. Earth hangs in the sky above them, large and blue and round.

Libby grins.

[alicornucopia]

Ehail admires the view.

She's still smiling, just a little.

She goes on making eights.

[prima_sequentem]

"So tell me about your world," Libby suggests. "Right now all I know is that it has four houses full of most-of-dragons, and a moon with atmosphere."