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]

Ehail nods. "The spells aren't very hard. They're diagrammed, and the caster doesn't have to do their own diagram, and the diagrams can be reused to a point."

[prima_sequentem]

"I see. I'm going to have to entice Lazarus to learn all about local magic for me. I suspect it won't take very much enticement," she says.

[nonbird]

With impeccable timing, Lazarus pokes his head in the door.

"Oh, hello, Libby. Hello, Ehail. I found all the baby home shrens the dragon council knows about and miracled them," he says.

[alicornucopia]

"Oh, good," says Ehail.

[prima_sequentem]

"If anyone's going to go looking for miscellaneous shrens the dragon council doesn't know about, you're the obvious choice," she says. "Ehail, what do you think - are they likely to prefer finding out later from the news, or finding out today from a door-to-door miracle distributor?"

[alicornucopia]

"It might depend on how hidden they are and why. The houses have current addresses for most..."

[prima_sequentem]

"On the one hand, the least hidden ones are probably the likeliest to welcome door-to-door miracles; on the other hand, the most hidden ones are the ones most worth sending Lazarus after, and least likely to hear about it any other way. We have time to think it over, I guess."

[nonbird]

"If I'm going to distribute more miracles I should probably stock up, either way," he says. "Especially since it will be less convenient to do those ones in batches of five. Batches of five are possible, by the way."

[alicornucopia]

"Okay," nods Ehail, and she pulls out her pocket calculator and starts making more eights.

[nonbird]

Lazarus is still mildly disconcerted by the creation of large coins, but only mildly.

[queensidecastle]

In comes Chris.

"Hi, guys."

[alicornucopia]

"Hello," says Ehail. "Corenta is all done?"

[queensidecastle]

"Yep. Turns out you can miracle in batches of five," she says.

[alicornucopia]

"I didn't try it. I guess that was kind of a waste."

[prima_sequentem]

"I didn't try it until after I'd completed all the babies and the list of children Jensal showed me," says Libby. "But when I minted her so she could get the rest, she tried it first thing."

[alicornucopia]

Ehail nods. "Well. I can make more, anyway, and I guess Jensal can too."

[prima_sequentem]

"Yes you can."

[nonbird]

"We should figure something out for making sure the miracles don't run out when this generation of ex-shrens dies of old age," says Lazarus. "I have a few ideas, but - hmmmmmm. Libby, may I have some miscellaneous magic to carry around, please? I'd like to go talk to someone and it's possible I might need to do miscellaneous magic. Like teach myself local languages so I can talk to people who aren't any amount of dragons."

[prima_sequentem]

Libby gives him a considering look.

Then she says, "Sure."

[nonbird]

He blinks. "Goodness. Um - what level of coin does it take, for languages? Do you know?"

[prima_sequentem]

"A five will do one. You can probably pack a lot more onto a six, or even come up with a general translation power, but I'll leave those details up to you."

[alicornucopia]

"Do you need some of those?" asks Ehail.

[nonbird]

"I wouldn't mind a handful, but it is not extremely important," he says. "Libby has given me five fives and one six and made me a mint so I can probably make threes and maybe fours on my own without much trouble. How many eights do you have now? If it's more than twenty or so, I think I might take them in case I bump into a lot of stray shrens and then go talk to that dragon I met earlier. He seemed to know things about magic."

[alicornucopia]

Ehail hands over twenty eights.

[nonbird]

"Thank you!" he says.

He tells his teleport power to take him to a spot out of anyone's immediate or habitual walking path and near the entrance of the building that Kaylo is currently in.