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

[queensidecastle]

"I know about Milliways. Go on."

[nonbird]

"I have met someone here who I would describe as most of a dragon," he says, "and I would like her to be the rest of a dragon because being most of a dragon looks terribly uncomfortable and she seems really unhappy about it. She says there are a lot more most-of-dragons and we would like to fix them all. I don't know how big a wish it will take or even if a wish will do it at all, but I really want to try."

[queensidecastle]

"We don't just hand these things out, you know."

[nonbird]

"I am aware."

[queensidecastle]

"...All right. Will your 'most of a dragon' fit through the door? I'm... going to have to make a few calls, and then I might want her to talk to me. Or to somebody."

[nonbird]

"She is currently human-shaped and will fit through the door just fine," he says. "And probably not have very much of a problem using the phone."

[queensidecastle]

"All right. I'll call you back."

[nonbird]

"Kolya please hang up the phone," he says. "Chris is going to call me back. Also can I bring a person into our living room?"

[ignorable]

"Sure."

[nonbird]

"Thank you Kolya."

He un-leans and goes back to Ehail.

[alicornucopia]

Ehail has been waiting patiently.

[nonbird]

"I talked to Chris and she is going to talk to some other shady wish-mongerers and then call me back. Would you like to come into my world to wait to talk to her or whoever she gets on the phone? Does your world have phones, do I need to explain them? And you might be waiting for a long time if I let the door close, because the frequency with which I get doors behaves unpredictably, so I can stand there holding it open if you'd rather. And I have an invisible roommate who will probably be around being invisible."

[alicornucopia]

"How long is a long time?" asks Ehail. "We... don't have phones, but I can get a general idea from the word."

She makes no comment on the invisible roommate.

[nonbird]

"A long time could be a week or something. That's the longest I've gone without a door when I wanted one, and wanting one makes a difference."

[alicornucopia]

"I'll come in, then," says Ehail. "If you don't mind. I don't have to eat much if that's a factor."

[nonbird]

"I do not mind. My invisible roommate might mind but I don't think he will and I can ask him."

He goes to the door, opens it, and addresses the empty room.

"Kolya can the person maybe stay with us if she comes in and Milliways has a sulk?"

[ignorable]

"Sure."

[nonbird]

"Thank you Kolya," he says, to a room that has resumed being empty by the time he finishes the sentence.

[alicornucopia]

Ehail blinks at the unfamiliar magic, but follows Lazarus in and looks around without terribly much curiosity.

[nonbird]

It is a room. There are many, many books. Lazarus perches on a couch.

[alicornucopia]

Ehail looks for something to sit on, and sits on it. She skims the titles of the books, quite indiscriminate about which language she is looking at from spine to spine.

[nonbird]

There are a lot of languages on offer! And there is not much organization to them. Although in particular, the same book will often appear in English and Russian with both copies next to each other.

[alicornucopia]

"Do you mind if I read one of these?" asks Ehail.

[nonbird]

"No, go ahead," he says.

[alicornucopia]

She tips a Dostoevsky book (in the original) into her hand, and starts reading.