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Tree branch: check. Assorted lightweight seed-bearing fruits and nuts: check. Other seeds: check. Water bottle, for when she has to veer away from the river: check.
Better not linger in her starting place too much longer. Yellow's faster than her and may have already come home to a wreck. Thorn might have a habit of checking up on the place, even, just in case. She's invisible, inaudible, unsmellable - that won't help if he sends someone thorough. Or comes in person.
She sets out.
She's been flying for about thirty minutes after her shopping trip when she falls through a tear and squeaks inaudibly and lands in the middle of -
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imeanforever
imeanforever
Promise opens it. She goes through and closes it so Alexandria won't jump the gun. She makes sure there are not other fairies in the area, and then makes her tree give her wood in the shape of a large basket. She shoves it around to various places under the tree, makes it drop its haws above the basket, and shoves it again. Eventually she has a very large basket full of a whole lot of haws.
Then, leaving the basket on the ground, she flies up to her gate, opens it again, and says, "You can come carry the berries now."
Then, leaving the basket on the ground, she flies up to her gate, opens it again, and says, "You can come carry the berries now."
wormcan
Alexandria enters, and picks up the basket. Very large by Promise's standards is, in this case, still very large by human ones. While on this side of the gate, Alexandria takes the opportunity to look around Fairyland. A disproportionate amount of this is spent looking upward. She inaudibly subvocalizes something, but does not speak aloud.
wormcan
One of the most important heroes currently active on any known world steps back into Earth Bet. Alexandria is carrying her groceries.
"We've got more conventional transport back, courtesy of Sarkany. One of her drones."
"We've got more conventional transport back, courtesy of Sarkany. One of her drones."
wormcan
There is very little obvious reason for Alexandria to fly back in Sarkany's transport, but she goes in first and sets down the basket.
Once inside, "I know you mentioned earlier that Fairyland is flat, but there aren't any limits on it at all, are there?"
Once inside, "I know you mentioned earlier that Fairyland is flat, but there aren't any limits on it at all, are there?"
imeanforever
"...I don't think so? I mean, one can't fly up as far as one might want because the air thins out, but I don't imagine there would be a similar problem with digging down or traveling away from the continents I happen to have heard of."
imeanforever
"The continents I've heard of? I'm not sure. I read most of my geography a long time ago and it tends to be denominated in days' flight, which varies kind to kind anyway."
wormcan
"It might become useful to send some humans across for one purpose or another, and the fewer such areas there are the more likely it is to be too dangerous."
imeanforever
"It's really not a good idea for any mortals to spend long in Fairyland. Like, you could find someplace no one was living, but someone might wander by. And there's the risk of food cross-contamination. By the way, if you drop a berry, find it before somebody has a chance to think they should eat it."
wormcan
"Not all purposes need involve much time. If there were, say, natural resources that are in short supply here, no one would have to live or eat there."
The craft approaches Ellisburg again.
The craft approaches Ellisburg again.
wormcan
"Oil deposits, perpetual wind storms, enormous planes of solid gold, humans are good at finding value in all sorts of things." The real relevant resource doesn't need to be stated right now.
imeanforever
"Well, I suppose you might find any of those things but I don't know where any would be."
wormcan
"Regardless, it's a question for another time.
I suppose you're going to need me to help deliver Nilbog's gift?"
I suppose you're going to need me to help deliver Nilbog's gift?"
imeanforever
"Unless you have another way to do it. Will he recognize you? He's expecting an apology in addition to the gift."
wormcan
She shakes her head. "He won't. Not individually at least, he may at most guess that I am part of the Protectorate."
imeanforever
"And you'll play along with the apology bit? Unless literally everything in the town eats a berry my control will be messy and I'd rather avoid having to make them fight each other so they don't attack."
wormcan
"Don't worry, I can play the role as necessary.
If they do attack I can defend you. I'd worry more about whatever went wrong in the first place."
If they do attack I can defend you. I'd worry more about whatever went wrong in the first place."
imeanforever
"What are your powers, anyway, besides picking up large objects and flying? Or are you just good enough at those things that you can fight off monsters?"
wormcan
"Here, the flying brick set of superpowers is known as the Alexandria package. I'm Alexandria.
My other power, not exactly secret but less talked about, is mental. I think faster, never forget anything and am in full generality smarter than I was before. But it's mostly the first set that would come into play against monsters, yes."
My other power, not exactly secret but less talked about, is mental. I think faster, never forget anything and am in full generality smarter than I was before. But it's mostly the first set that would come into play against monsters, yes."
imeanforever
Promise purses her lips a little at 'never forget anything'.
"Anyway, he was very excited that I'm a fairy. You are not a fairy and may be less exciting and/or assumed to be my vassal. My read on him is that he won't take very well to being contradicted if he's assumed something. Also his creatures wanted to search me for weapons; I didn't let them touch me but I did have to list my inventory a couple of times before they showed me where he was. If you all by yourself constitute a weapon they might object to you."
"Anyway, he was very excited that I'm a fairy. You are not a fairy and may be less exciting and/or assumed to be my vassal. My read on him is that he won't take very well to being contradicted if he's assumed something. Also his creatures wanted to search me for weapons; I didn't let them touch me but I did have to list my inventory a couple of times before they showed me where he was. If you all by yourself constitute a weapon they might object to you."