"Heroing, basically," says Darcy. "I can summon thunderstorms with it, but with all those people out flying I probably shouldn't. And when I put it down it stays put and when I hit things with it they stay hit."
Kerron says, "And I'm Kerron. Not sure if this is large enough to read. Or if dragons go in for literacy, for that matter."
"Species from Aurum. Really fast, really durable, really strong - Aianon beat my dad arm-wrestling but it was close - and made out of humans, with vampire venom, takes three days if you do it the natural way."
"Yeah. With anybody but Aianon it wouldn't be close - Dad could pick you up easy. Might not be comfy, he's human-sized and you wouldn't have very well-distributed pressure, but he could do it."
"Yeah. Stand him up there, put a sling under you that wouldn't snap, he could pick you right up."
"You're not really shaped for it. I just meant to indicate that vampires are very, very strong."
(Kerron just kind of runs with it when people pronoun his mum.)
"Maybe on Thilanushinyel. At home you've got witches, who can be any species but only have single specific powers, and then you have imported magic, and pretty much everyone except my mum who has access to that stuff is not a human. Or at least was when I was growing up; there's Harley now, he's another Mum."