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Nika is impatient for everybody to come home already so she can show them her new stuff and Miles can show them that he can walk if he learns now and Ivan can - well, Ivan doesn't really have much to show for the trip, what kind of altly help is 'don't try aged fish, you won't like it' - well, Ivan can be a firebird, that's something. Ivan can tell them that he is a firebird. Except he doesn't seem to have been pleased about it. Well, whatever, Nika will let him show the grownups about... pens. Wait, if she let him do that, she would not be able to use her pen in the intervening time in case the grownups arrived. Oh well. Ivan will not get to do anything interesting. Maybe that will be okay with him. If he wanted interesting things to show off he should have done more magic bar stuff.
So Nika waits by where she expects grownups to come in, and she reads about magic on her pen.
Nika has been playing with Ivan, but she abandons the toys for her pen as soon as Cordelia offers it back. "Are you going to let Miles out of his brace?" she says. "He's all better."
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"Yes. I'm going to take him to his doctor right now," she says. "When I get back, I'd like you to show me where you put all the pens, but I need to get Miles to his doctor first."
"Hi!" Nika hugs his leg. And then she realizes that she has been misinforming her loved ones and should correct this. "Gregor, I'm not actually a fairy, it turns out, I'm a dragon."
"The magic bar told me! And Miles is a unicorn and Ivan is a firebird but he seems not to like that and Bothari is a fuzzy bear thing."
"Ivan found it! And he got me, and I got Miles, and there were our grownups in it, and they gave us stuff and we came home from it. Look at this!" She puts her pen in drawing mode - this takes her a couple tries; it's not that accustomed to her gestures yet - and draws a squiggle through the air. "One of my grownups invented these!"
"They didn't look like me the way Miles's grownup looked like Miles and Ivan's grownup looked like him - Gregor, Ivan's grownup was so boring, it's sad - but the bar said they were my grownups, I'm going to be like them when I grow up except different looking. And a dragon. And adopted, they weren't adopted."
"It was out the door to the garden but it's not there anymore. They said so, but I checked, and it really wasn't."
"She had to come home to take Miles to the doctor to check that really truly the grownups fixed him and he can learn to walk okay now, yeah."
"Hmm," says Gregor. "So being a dragon isn't at all like being a fairy, then, because being a fairy was pretend."
"Yeah. I wasn't even pretending the right thing! There weren't any fairies in the magic bar at all. I can't turn into a dragon yet because I don't have a magic thingy but we're going to learn to make them, we got magic books."
"Sure! I can send them to your pen. You get a pen. It's the one your grownup picked. He wasn't there but they had one so they knew what kind you'd want." Nika performs arcane pen gestures.
"It's in the box of pens. This way." Nika shows him this way, and the box of pens, and finds the one labeled Gregor. "You get the pointy kind."