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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
wormcan
"I could have someone redact the names from what we claim is a real newspaper, or bring in someone we claim is unaffiliated with our organization, information in general is going to have this problem."
The other problem is simpler. Writing implements aren't in short supply, one materializes, and the Director hands it to Promise.
The other problem is simpler. Writing implements aren't in short supply, one materializes, and the Director hands it to Promise.
imeanforever
Promise marks a roughly door-width distance on the floor. Then she stares at it. Then she reaches into her bag, pulls out a little bit of plant matter, and throws it past the marks. It lands on the floor. She goes and picks it up. "Not an instant settle."
wormcan
"Any idea where it falls on the scale between instant and days? We can accommodate you for that long if you need it."
imeanforever
"I can't tell in advance. I can just wait here for it, if that's all right."
wormcan
"Here?" The humans glance around at the enormous empty room. "If you'd prefer. I'll make sure everyone is warned about the names so you're less confined, but leaving wherever you wait is still going to be a risk."
imeanforever
"I wasn't planning to wander around. Sorcery works here, which is very comforting."
wormcan
Vista nods. If she were in Promise's position, she'd want to stay in the room where her power worked, too.
"If it might be days, you'll presumably want food and furniture and so on. And information, of course, what kinds of things do you most urgently need to know?"
"If it might be days, you'll presumably want food and furniture and so on. And information, of course, what kinds of things do you most urgently need to know?"
imeanforever
"I was packed for a trip when I fell through. I have never eaten mortal food and don't want to start. If I'm going to come back here later I'd like to know more about how the world is, in general. I don't know enough to know what to ask."
wormcan
"I suppose that's to be expected.
There probably actually is an answer prepared for people who need a ground-up introduction to everything. I haven't handled any of those cases myself, but it comes up more often than never.
And I'd like to know more about Fairyland eventually, but you learning about Earth Bet is higher priority."
There probably actually is an answer prepared for people who need a ground-up introduction to everything. I haven't handled any of those cases myself, but it comes up more often than never.
And I'd like to know more about Fairyland eventually, but you learning about Earth Bet is higher priority."
imeanforever
"I'm willing to tell you some general things about Fairyland, but I don't have a prepared answer on hand."
wormcan
"For my own curiosity, why is so much of it in anarchy? Humans have had societies beyond what could be described as someone's court for most of our history, and even capes can be organized. Are most fairies just extremely averse to cooperation?"
imeanforever
"Some fairies do live in largish groups. Mostly breeding kinds. Most individual fairies are breeders, but most kinds of fairies aren't. But there's nowhere as densely populated as the city I just overflew implied. And we can be self-sufficient pretty easily."
wormcan
"Some of that does sound different enough that there's no reason to expect an analogy to humans to hold.
But worrying about the details of another world is likely to be above my pay grade, at least as long as my city isn't in danger."
But worrying about the details of another world is likely to be above my pay grade, at least as long as my city isn't in danger."
wormcan
"Definitely. Who can gain powers is an essentially random sample, but powers only activate after some form of trauma. I admit some are perfectly well-adjusted individuals, but they're not exactly selected for that. And then they wind up obviously unique, powerful, and socially expected to bash one another's faces in. The general trend is that parahumans are much more likely than normals to do their own thing and in unpleasantly direct ways."
imeanforever
"But mortals in general are pretty easily coordinated, I gather."
wormcan
"About three hundred fifty thousand. Brockton Bay is larger than most cities, but there are fifty or so larger in this country alone."
imeanforever
"You'd need to assemble continentsful of fairies to get that many together."
wormcan
"For us it was mostly made possible by the industrial and agricultural revolutions. It sounds like Fairyland never had those. But the causes are ancient history now; large cities are just taken for granted."
imeanforever
"Fairies do some agriculture, but not in a particularly revolutionary way."
wormcan
"I'll dig up some information on how it happened and add it to the list, if you're interested. History in general probably wouldn't even need to be redacted, the owners of any names being safely dead."
wormcan
"You need to avoid hearing names even if there's no one attached? That sounds more dangerous than before."