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

[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.

[alicornucopia]

This appears to be a large beige institution of some kind.

[nonbird]

It does appear to be that!

It also appears to be surprisingly close to one of the shren houses, because he can tell there is a large collection of miracles over thataway, some distance away but still discernible en masse.

As for amounts-of-dragon nearer by: yes, there's Kaylo. And there's someone he's going to guess is the lots-of-a-dragon Kaylo mentioned. And there's two dragons of the usual amount whom he doesn't personally recognize, not that that's surprising. And there's...

...a pair of shrens? Very close to a pair of dragons of their respective colours? Possibly slightly underground?

Lazarus is confused.

He walks in that direction.

[alicornucopia]

That direction has a pond in it.

[nonbird]

So it does!

The four amounts-of-dragon he can clearly see appear to be underground next to the pond, two shrens shaped like birds and two dragons shaped like small dragons. But there's something else - like a blur, or a smudge - gradually resolving as he gets closer.

When he gets close enough, he eeps and scrambles the rest of the way to the pond, peering at the ground to try to detect an entrance. "Um, excuse me!" he says. "Underground people! I'm a miracle distributor from another world and I can see magic and two of your baby dragons are in an alarming condition I might be able to help with!"

[alicornucopia]

A black-speckled duck swims out from the hidey-hole, and looks around surreptitiously for other witnesses.

Finding none, she hisses: "Keep your voice down!"

[nonbird]

"I'm sorry!" he says, somewhat more quietly. "Would you like me to turn you into a dragon? I can do that. And the other one too."