barring emergencies

[the_very_best]

Bella's not sure where she has wandered. She thought she was about to walk into a shop, but this appears to be an unattended bar. With none of the windows associated with the shop she thought she was entering. It could be an elaborate psychic assault of some kind, but it doesn't feel very... assault-y... and she was in the middle of a town and doesn't think any humans want to sic their 'mon on her. It's strange. She approaches the bar, looking around warily, hand hovering near her belt.

with Max (Benedict)

with Earth and Lightning (kappa)

with Ann and Sabrina (kuuskytkolme)

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[pythbox]

"What even are you," giggles Lightning.

[cumulonimbus]

"I'm a weather mage!"

[pythbox]

"You're making my halo tickle!"

He ruffles her hair. Sparks happen.

[cumulonimbus]

"Eeeheehee!"

[pythbox]

Lightning scoops her up.

(Earth is keeping his distance, unsure whether the little girl's borrowed halo of sparks will treat him the same way Lightning's does.)

[cumulonimbus]

She doesn't object at all.

"You've got wings, do they work, can you fly? I might be able to make wind pick me up but it seems like it'll be really hard and I'll have to practice a lot."

[pythbox]

"They work. I fly. Wanna see?"

[cumulonimbus]

"Yeah!"

[pythbox]

So he carries her outside, and flaps his wings - they crackle louder when he moves them - and flies.

Earth follows them out, but stays on the ground.

[cumulonimbus]

Stormy whoops at the top of her lungs and holds on tight.

[pythbox]

Whee! Flying!

[cumulonimbus]

Whee!

"I bet you fly around all the time, I would fly around all the time if I could," cackles Stormy. "Except I'd run out of energy if I did it with wind probably so I couldn't."

[pythbox]

"I fly around sometimes," Lightning agrees. "It's pretty great."

[cumulonimbus]

"Was it hard to learn?"

[pythbox]

"Nope!"

[cumulonimbus]

"Lucky! You get to be lightningy and fly. I bet you can't be the sky though."

[pythbox]

Swoop. "What's it mean to be the sky?"

[cumulonimbus]

"Eeeee! - it's when I put my magic up and it's like I'm, well, the sky, being the clouds and the air and the sunshine and everything. It's best during big storms. I'm supposed to only do it in a magic circle so I don't leak magic everywhere and not go more than a few miles away from my body, though."

[pythbox]

"I don't think our magic does that," says Lightning.

[cumulonimbus]

"Most people's magic doesn't do it at home either. I'm not the only weather mage ever but we're really rare."

[pythbox]

"What are your elementals like?"

[cumulonimbus]

"I've never met one and don't know a whole lot about them. One of my teachers knew a mountain, I think."

[pythbox]

"...A mountain?"

[cumulonimbus]

"Or like the middle of the mountain or something. I think it was an elemental that spent most of its time being a mountain."

[pythbox]

"I don't think my kind of elementals spend any time being mountains, even if they're Stone."