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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
It leads to a homey, roomy tree, lit by fairylights in easily-covered locations. It doesn't have any airholes. There are books, not covered by wood right at this moment, and a little kitchenette and a basin of water and a bed and a sewing room and lots of drawings decorating its interior surfaces.
whole_new_can
Presumably Promise's residence. He's not here to intrude, so he space-warps out of the tree without looking too closely. His method of teleportation was selected for the likelihood it would destroy the gate. Once to get to Alice Springs and turn it into a tear, once to leave the tree and cut off the gate altogether. No sense in being followed, and the gate wasn't meant to be open at all.
Once out, he changes out one of his powers. Charging up takes longer than it used to, but in a few minutes he can sense every person in a long enough range that he can see Fairyland's flatness directly. He chooses the largest collection, and warps to just above them.
Once out, he changes out one of his powers. Charging up takes longer than it used to, but in a few minutes he can sense every person in a long enough range that he can see Fairyland's flatness directly. He chooses the largest collection, and warps to just above them.
He has found a little fairy town. Little fairies - they are all the same kind, yellow and fly-winged and fuzzy, averaging two feet high - go about their business, tending plants, constructing and repairing tiny fairy buildings and burrows, flying to and fro, eating and singing and chatting and sailing around on their lake.
A fairy notices him and starts flying up to see what's going on.
A fairy notices him and starts flying up to see what's going on.
whole_new_can
Most fairies aren't especially relevant one way or the other.
For this to work, he's probably going to have to play the villain. "Send me your sorcerers, if you think they can face me." Green light flashes across the sky. Presentation.
For this to work, he's probably going to have to play the villain. "Send me your sorcerers, if you think they can face me." Green light flashes across the sky. Presentation.
"Are you a mortal?" asks the fuzzy yellow fairy.
whole_new_can
"Yes. I am Eidolon. I am here for a fight, and know exactly what I'm gambling."
The fairy presumably doesn't have any highly specific orders for what to do if Eidolon shows up looking for a fight, because he hovers there, blinking, then says, "...You want us to drag the sorcerers out of the library. And have them fight you."
whole_new_can
Actual villains never seem to have this problem.
"Or...whoever you call on when threatened.
You know what, I'm here to forcibly collect all your names. Please raise the alarm and have people try to stop me."
"Or...whoever you call on when threatened.
You know what, I'm here to forcibly collect all your names. Please raise the alarm and have people try to stop me."
"This is a breeder court," the fuzzy yellow fairy explains patiently. "You might have better luck with the mixed court up the mountain."
whole_new_can
A chance to start over actually does sound pretty good right now. He warps populationward up the mountain.
"I am Eidolon! Face me if you want to keep your names!"
Is this what it's like for his opponents all the time?
"I am Eidolon! Face me if you want to keep your names!"
Is this what it's like for his opponents all the time?
The court up the mountain has homes dug into the mountain, perched up trees, in mounds of earth on the slope, and in a few gigantic flowers. The presumable home of the court's master is a fancy building with lots of glass and shells; someone peeps out of the window, then disappears. A minute later fairies of various shapes and sizes and colors fly out of the fancy house and address others in the court. Apparently getting a court ready for unexpected challenges like this takes a while.
whole_new_can
This is fine. He takes time to prepare, too. The long-range mind detection gets replaced with a telekinesis-based ranged attack, and after one last flash the green lightning with defensive precognition. The space warping he keeps. The flight it gives him seems to work differently here than on Earth Bet for one reason or another, but his power is filling in a way to use it to stay in the air. And the teleportation is a necessity.
In a few minutes he'll be fully prepared for whatever they throw at him.
In a few minutes he'll be fully prepared for whatever they throw at him.
Their first volley is (going to be) intense heat in his immediate location, surrounded by intense cold everywhere else in case he gets out of the metaphorical kitchen.
whole_new_can
Sorcerers! That's what he's here for.
The cold isn't going to be literally everywhere; he considers locations to teleport to until one of them doesn't involve being frozen. With any luck he'll be in blasting distance of his opponents.
The cold isn't going to be literally everywhere; he considers locations to teleport to until one of them doesn't involve being frozen. With any luck he'll be in blasting distance of his opponents.
Well, he could land on the ground. They aren't freezing themselves. Or he could go a ways uphill.
Whichever he does, he will then find some of the smaller fairies buzzing in his direction with sugar candy and slices of fruit.
Whichever he does, he will then find some of the smaller fairies buzzing in his direction with sugar candy and slices of fruit.
whole_new_can
This is enough of a move against him that his precognition tells him their path, but that doesn't make it a threat. He appears in the middle of the buzzing and strikes at them with telekinesis. One fairy gets a small piece of mortal fruit blasted toward their face, stopping before it arrives. "I'm looking for people who can fight me. Where are the sorcerers?"
The fairies do not answer him. The one he aimed fruit at looks terrified but can't of her own volition alter the plan she was given. They keep trying to feed him.
whole_new_can
For possibly the first time in human history, self-defence against fresh fruit is a vital skill. Eidolon cheats, of course.
The inches disappear, and the pomegranate seed starts pressing itself through the fairy's mouth.
"Where are my opponents?"
The inches disappear, and the pomegranate seed starts pressing itself through the fairy's mouth.
"Where are my opponents?"
The terrified fairy cannot answer. She can't even scream. She can cry, though! That's an involuntary reaction!
whole_new_can
Right. Orders.
"Tell me, and then you're free. If you're not a sorcerer."
"Tell me, and then you're free. If you're not a sorcerer."
They can't, so they don't.
The harder parts of Eidolon's costume are about to start reshaping themselves in a remarkably uncomfortable manner.
The harder parts of Eidolon's costume are about to start reshaping themselves in a remarkably uncomfortable manner.
whole_new_can
So they have enough information on the armor to use magic on it. He himself is probably next. He swaps two spheres of space: earth falls from where he used to be. He and his captive appear underground, their surroundings held up by his other power. It's lit only by the green glow from his mask.
The problem with these parahuman powers is that they tend not to work on things inside other people's bodies. He forces her mouth open with yet more telekinesis, and flies the seed down her throat until his power is no longer able to affect it.
The problem with these parahuman powers is that they tend not to work on things inside other people's bodies. He forces her mouth open with yet more telekinesis, and flies the seed down her throat until his power is no longer able to affect it.
She coughs desperately, tears streaming down her face.
whole_new_can
"Tell me where my opponents are, and if you are not a sorcerer you're free."
Cough cough cough. He's not going to get very far like this.
The ground he's under is about to heat up.
The ground he's under is about to heat up.