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Ari is patrolling the streets of scenic Vancouver! Well, actually he's just going to visit Peter, but he's keeping an eye out for monsters along the way. It's a nice night, monsters like ruining that kind of thing. The streets are more or less deserted, it being 2:00 AM on a Tuesday. Ari whistles cheerfully.
bitterchill
"Yes, and asking to touch children is skeevy in any circumstance, but people are, in fact, rude. I can make your wings invisible, is why I ask."
bitterchill
"Uh, yes, but if you're going to fly I'd ask that you do it in the Nevernever so humans don't hit you with planes and stuff. Sorry."
bitterchill
"It's a world that's sort of- sideways to this one. It's really pretty, but there's things in it that want to eat you, so you'd have to bring me along for protection. But it's very pretty. And there's no humans except some wizards."
campanas
"I can't eaten," says Pen. "Unless very magic eating maybe so okay you come along... What kind wizards?"
bitterchill
"Very magic eating, yeah. And eating's not the only unpleasant thing that can happen to lost children in the Nevernever. Best all around if you stick with me. And they're my kind wizards! We do magic with earth and air and water and fire and spirit, and then we do more complicated magic with demons and magic items and- there's a lot of stuff you can do with the complicated magic, it's flexible."
campanas
"What kind demons? Is a one daddy who a demon. He red, extra tall, wings but not angel wings."
bitterchill
"Demons're just a kind of spirit, not a very nice one. You can summon them to ask them questions or ask them to hurt your enemies and whatnot. Red and big and winged, that's a classic. What's your daddy like?"
campanas
"My daddy a mortal, and adopted Edori, and he call me silly pun names because I Pen short for Penninah."
bitterchill
"Aw, he likes puns. I like him already."
Ari takes a pocketwatch out of one of his innumerable coat pockets. "What kind of time zone are you running on?"
Ari takes a pocketwatch out of one of his innumerable coat pockets. "What kind of time zone are you running on?"
bitterchill
"Then I think you should probably be getting to bed. D'you want to come along home to the apartment? Oh, and you never answered if you wanted your wings invisible or not, that should be decided."
bitterchill
"How heavy do I look? If you can lift two hundred and some pounds of human, then feel free to carry me and I'll give you directions, it's dark enough nobody's likely to see."
campanas
"'Kay!"
And she takes off, with a bit of a running start, and ascends and banks and swoops. Now she is carrying him, one hand under each of his shoulders.
And she takes off, with a bit of a running start, and ascends and banks and swoops. Now she is carrying him, one hand under each of his shoulders.
bitterchill
Ari cackles. Flight! Flying is cool!
"Okay, so... alright, bit different from the air. We want to go forward five streets and left three. Flying is cool!"
"Okay, so... alright, bit different from the air. We want to go forward five streets and left three. Flying is cool!"
campanas
She sets him down neatly and touches down herself and folds up her wings again. "There. See, not heavy much."
bitterchill
"If you say so!"
Ari leads her to an excessively fancy-looking apartment complex and keys them in. "This is where Sally's apartment is! Her parents bought it for her. Its rent could be paid in 24-karat gold for all I know. Probably is, actually."
Ari leads her to an excessively fancy-looking apartment complex and keys them in. "This is where Sally's apartment is! Her parents bought it for her. Its rent could be paid in 24-karat gold for all I know. Probably is, actually."