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"We have more kinds from more places. And some of them are pretty nice, just not most of them. Bella - Juliet I mean - has some of them being her gardener-minions, she accidentally inherited them. Minus and Plus are both our kind of vampire but Plus is from a different world that's only like ours."

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"Does she have a lot of gardens, or something, that she needs minions for?" wonders Tianthonet.

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"Nah, she got the minions, and then made the gardens to keep them busy. She was going to make them self-containing originally."

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"...In that case I have to wonder how and why she acquired the minions," says Sherial.

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"Well, they like to be minions, and the last person they were minioning for was bad news and Bella had to slay her. Or rather send her Downside for the admin to put in stasis or something? But basically slay her, and then she found the minions and they were like 'so do you want some minions'."

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"...Your world is bizarre," Sherial concludes.

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"Yeah, Glass says it and the worlds like it are really really mean."

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"And yet, minions," says Sherial.

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"What d'you mean, and yet?"

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"It's not historically been common for the losing side's loyal followers to spontaneously convert on the death of their leader, around here."

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"Oh. Yeah, that was kinda weird. Bella kept offering to set them up an independent colony but it turns out they have to have someone to be minions of to have baby minions."

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"Ah," says Sherial. "And now it makes sense."

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"So there are going to be ugly-cute wrinkly babies soon!"

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Sherial snorts.

"I've never even seen a baby," says Tianthonet. "Of any species."
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"Weren't you and the other conjured dragons babies at the same time? Do you just not remember it?"

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Tianthonet shakes her head. It's an odd gesture on a dragon, but recognizable.

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"There are some little kids here but not baby little."

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"I think Hyacinthe is the youngest. Peninnah's next and she's like eight."

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"...Are human children a lot smaller than humans?" says Tianthonet, looking down at her feet as though she is afraid a small child could have snuck under one without her noticing, although she stops short of actually picking them up to check.

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"They start yea big," says Soph, gesturing. "They're about full size by the time they're in their mid-teens."

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"Oh," says Tianthonet. "Dragons start bigger than that, I think."

"I've seen our eggshells," says Sherial. "Much bigger. But not bigger than a grown human."

"And we're nowhere near full size yet," says Tianthonet.

"But then we have much farther to go," says Sherial. "And some dragons are just small. Ansharil is."
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"Is he? How big? I've never seen him being, uh, himself."

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"He's... Ansharil-sized," says Tianthonet.

"Just about large enough to comfortably carry one Bondmate," says Sherial. "So not all that much bigger than we are."

"We can both carry ours," objects Tianthonet.

"Yes, but not as easily as Ansharil could. And yet he still doesn't have room to pack on a dozen children like Ancaladar still occasionally complains about."
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"...Dragon children or human-oid children?"

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"Elf children," says Sherial.

"Two thousand years ago, in Jermayan's time," says Tianthonet. "There was a war on, and the elves wanted to send their children to a special fortress where they'd be safe, and of course the best way to go was by dragon, but Ancaladar didn't like having - what was the phrase - "

"An infestation of tiny passengers," Sherial supplies.
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