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

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[alicornucopia]

Nervously, the mother shifts, first, and peers at the children (the newly uniqued red one is now playing with fire on purpose). Scales clatter off her. She -

Flies.

Her husband's jaw drops.

[nonbird]

Lazarus beams.

[alicornucopia]

He follows her, and they both fly towards their children and land beside them. He picks up the red opal girl. She breathes fire on him and he does not care. The mother flops down among the babies and lets them climb on her.

(They are both noticeably smaller than Ehail was when Lazarus saw her, and dropped considerably fewer scales.)

[nonbird]

Lazarus teleports back to the general location of the children as soon as their parents land, although he keeps somewhat more distance than he did when they were duck- or human-sized.

"I don't want to leave you on the bottom of the world indefinitely but I'm not sure where to take you back to," he says. "Any suggestions?"

[alicornucopia]

"Uuuum," muses the red one.

"I suppose we can try to get jobs again," murmurs the black one. "Without anyone trying to take our children... Eret? Daasen temporary housing until we find something?"

He nods. "Can we have an angle or two for this one to stop sneezing?"

[nonbird]

"Okay," he says. "I'll go away and come back. Hmm—" A five, he discovers, will produce a linked pair of those speaking crystals. He offers one to the nearest miracle. "So you can call me in case I get distracted and forget the time, which has been known to happen."

[alicornucopia]

"How far are we from the edge, if you don't show up when called?" asks Eret.

[nonbird]

"Exactly as far as you were before; I just took us through the planet. I can move you closer to the edge before I go, if you want."

[alicornucopia]

"Sure."

"Thank you," adds the mother.

[nonbird]

"You're welcome!"

He takes them to halfway between their current location and the nearest edge of the world, then teleports back to the pond and goes looking for Kaylo.

[alicornucopia]

Kaylo is in the beige institution!

There is a back entrance to the beige institution near the pond. It leads to a small box. The small box is magical.

[nonbird]

The small box is magical. It is very helpfully magical! Lazarus inspects its magicalness for a minute, and then tells it to take him to the library, reasoning that even if the library does not contain Kaylo it is bound to contain interesting and potentially useful things.

[alicornucopia]

As it happens, the library contains Kaylo! He's at a desk with a stack of books and some notepaper.

[nonbird]

"Hello!" says Lazarus. "Are you terribly busy? I have arcane questions about dragon magic. Actually - I forgot to ask the miracles - is it a common thing for small baby dragons to mysteriously die? Because if that is the case then I know how to tell which ones it's going to happen to and then fix it, and I need to know who to talk to so I can save any who are in danger from that right this second. Oh, and also what do dragons with lots of extra magic do, exactly? Those are the important things, my other arcane questions are much less time-sensitive."

[alicornucopia]

"I am not terribly - the who now? - yes it is - the dragon council I suppose - and it depends on the color."

[nonbird]

"Yes, I know - I made a black-group one and a red-group one when I was fixing doomed babies just now, and the red-group one started sneezing fire, which was slightly inconvenient, I would like to know if any of the other kinds are more inconvenient than that," he explains. "Do you know a particularly fast way to get in touch with the dragon council? I suppose I could go borrow Quaro's crystal again but he might currently be underwater."

[alicornucopia]

"Uh, baby green-group dragons sound dangerous to suddenly turn into uniques en masse unless Keo's right there to lay down safeties like her predecessor did for her. Any adult dragon has a representative who can get ahold of their color rep. Keo is conveniently nearby and is a representative who can get ahold of her color rep."

[nonbird]

"I assume Keo is the current unique green-group?" he says. "That sounds extremely convenient, thank you! I will be back later to talk about magic some more."

He teleports to the nearest not-in-anyone's-way bit of public hallway to Keo's current location.

[alicornucopia]

He is now right in front of a lift in a hallway, and Keo is upstairs.

[nonbird]

So he is!

He gets in the lift and tells it to go to the headmaster's office, because that is the destination that corresponds to the upstairs that Keo is.

[alicornucopia]

The lift takes him up, and opens into an office with a lot of bookshelves and a green-haired woman at a desk.

She looks up and says, predictably, something that is not in English.

[nonbird]

"Hello I'm a miracle distributor from another world and I just found out about mysteriously dying dragon babies and I can fix them now so you should tell the dragon council so I can go look at all the dragon babies that there are and fix the doomed ones," he says, very rapidly.

[alicornucopia]

Keo blinks at him.

"Do you," she says, "have any kind of proof? Eiaa doesn't like it when her time is wasted."

[nonbird]

"They've already heard from me once today; I spent this afternoon turning shrens into dragons," he says. "You can tell I'm telling the truth if you look, anyway, you have a mildly alarming amount of mind magic, I can see why Kaylo thought a sudden flood of green-group uniques would be a bad idea."

[alicornucopia]

"So you're willing to let me check?" clarifies Keo.