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Linya and Bella are working on wishes, in between light chat about runecasting and their personal lives. It is radiantly obvious to people paying attention that Bella wants to kiss her and Linya is married, although neither statement is made.
Ivans are playing cards.
Mileses, including Solvei, are debating the wisdom of borrowing another strategy game from Bar; Mark, a voice of caution, does not know what will happen if all of them (Solvei, Mial, Miles, Milo, Stalas) all start screaming at each other in twenty directions.
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isthisart
"I took a medical scan of him and it thought his bones were exotic ceramic, but I slightly doubt that's what you mean?"
greatestgift
"...It belatedly occurs to me that this might not be polite to talk about...?"
thisvorlunatic
"I am pretty curious about what you mean by my weird stuff," says Stalas.
greatestgift
"Well, your blood is... ...sparky?" she says. "And sort of—a little bit almost like the Corruption but not quite? And yeah, your bones are way not human, they're more like rock than bone, but it's mostly the blood that's glaringly obvious. What kind of not human are you?"
thisvorlunatic
"Dwarf, which is why the bones. The weird blood stuff is a separate issue," he says.
unmarred
"I'm very curious now exactly what strange things you can tell about each of us," says Mark.
middlingalong
"Bar already told me I'm definitely a human being, so if I'm weird in some lesser way I can probably deal," says Ivan.
"...If it doesn't add up to 'you are as expected a dragon' for me I may be disconcerted but not in an especially private way," Aurin says.
"...If it doesn't add up to 'you are as expected a dragon' for me I may be disconcerted but not in an especially private way," Aurin says.
greatestgift
"Smells of...? Never mind, okay," says Sable. "Here we go."
She stands on a chair to get a better view of everybody.
"You just look like ordinary humans, insofar as I remember what ordinary humans look like—" and she points out Bella, Ivan, Jann, and Solvei.
"You look unnaturally healthy except for those broken bones," this to Milo, "and you look unnaturally healthy too but in a different way," this to Linya.
"You two have some normal bones and some weird bones," Miles and Mark, "and you in particular have like a million old breaks, it's kinda disturbing," Miles. "But the weird bones aren't the same as Stalas's weird bones. They are a different weird."
"You and you," Mial and Aurin, "have all that inexplicable extra aliveness, and you're maybe a little bit unnaturally healthy but not so's I can hardly notice when you're practically glowing anyway."
"You three," the Kevarsin triplets, "I mean, nobody's going to be surprised when I mention the ears and tails, but you have some other weird stuff, I'm not sure what the one thing is but I'm sure it doesn't look comfortable, and the other thing I can't even tell that much, it's just vague and weird."
"And as for you," Milan, "I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you but there's sure something. Possibly multiple things. Nice scars, by the way."
She stands on a chair to get a better view of everybody.
"You just look like ordinary humans, insofar as I remember what ordinary humans look like—" and she points out Bella, Ivan, Jann, and Solvei.
"You look unnaturally healthy except for those broken bones," this to Milo, "and you look unnaturally healthy too but in a different way," this to Linya.
"You two have some normal bones and some weird bones," Miles and Mark, "and you in particular have like a million old breaks, it's kinda disturbing," Miles. "But the weird bones aren't the same as Stalas's weird bones. They are a different weird."
"You and you," Mial and Aurin, "have all that inexplicable extra aliveness, and you're maybe a little bit unnaturally healthy but not so's I can hardly notice when you're practically glowing anyway."
"You three," the Kevarsin triplets, "I mean, nobody's going to be surprised when I mention the ears and tails, but you have some other weird stuff, I'm not sure what the one thing is but I'm sure it doesn't look comfortable, and the other thing I can't even tell that much, it's just vague and weird."
"And as for you," Milan, "I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you but there's sure something. Possibly multiple things. Nice scars, by the way."
isthisart
"I'm genetically engineered for, among other things, unnatural health. Unlike Milo's case this does not involve magic."
greatestgift
"I wouldn't know, I'm just a Lakewalker," says Sable. "...Um, which is the kind of human I am that means I have groundsense and can tell whose bones are weird. But groundsense doesn't really have little Magic and Not Magic labels for things."
middlingalong
"What... is groundsense? Besides a sense that you have? Why is it called that, you can clearly sense things other than the ground."
greatestgift
"'Ground' is the word we use for the thing we can sense. It's like... I don't really know how to explain it. It's sort of but not really like being able to see the insides of things as clearly as their outsides? But instead of being outrageously gross when applied to living things like it sounds like that would be, living things are mostly really pretty?"
greatestgift
"Yes," she says. "And Lakewalkers call everyone who isn't a Lakewalker 'farmers' for some reason even though most of them don't farm. I'm only half Lakewalker - Father is, Mother isn't - but I got lucky and my groundsense is pretty strong."
onceandforall
"Calling everybody who isn't a Lakewalker a 'farmer' is weird. Has anybody in this room ever farmed anything?"
greatestgift
Sable sighs.
"It makes sense if you're a Lakewalker because one of the big differences between Lakewalkers and Not Lakewalkers is that Lakewalkers do not farm. These days farmers build cities and I think that's both a bigger difference and much more impressive, but back when Lakewalkers started calling them 'farmers' nobody was building cities. And probably a lot more people were farming."
"It makes sense if you're a Lakewalker because one of the big differences between Lakewalkers and Not Lakewalkers is that Lakewalkers do not farm. These days farmers build cities and I think that's both a bigger difference and much more impressive, but back when Lakewalkers started calling them 'farmers' nobody was building cities. And probably a lot more people were farming."
onceandforall
"Are you hunter-gatherers...? Or do you just trade for food?"