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Two girls are moving their hands through the air and speaking together in perfect parallel.
Two girls are looking expectantly at a circle of red chalk on their floor.
Two girls have done something exceptionally stupid.
Nick in Elcenia
"Convenient. This is a surprisingly relaxing place to be irreversibly summoned against my will to, you know."
"Which is probably a good thing for all concerned. Are you particularly busy? I know I couldn't have left my ship alone this long even if it weren't about to hit something - show me a place to sleep and give me shopping money and directions to a store and I'll get out of your hair."
"Korulen can take you shopping in case the city or the products are confusing," says Keo. "To work off her misbehavior. I'll show you to an empty room so you can form an idea of what you want to put in it."
"I hope you can see why I was so upset earlier. In my world, it's hard to live to adulthood without a healthy dose of caution."
She nods and shows him to the lift, which takes them to the entrance hall, and then leads him to a city.
The city is very tall. It ends abruptly, but not for lack of land to spill out onto.
The city is very tall. It ends abruptly, but not for lack of land to spill out onto.
Nick has no comment on the architecture. It's not like he's seen a city built on solid land before. He does seem slightly awed at the sheer size of the place, though.
She takes him to a clothing store first. There are plenty of options; the men's side is however all variants of one sort or another on pants and shirts.
So Nick buys some pants and shirts. Nothing too fancy or expensive. Are those some shoes? He gets a pair of those as well.
Korulen pays for everything with some kind of credit system, and then shows him to an art store, which has paper as well as miscellaneous craft objects.
"So the stamp connects to a bank or something, and showing it tells the bank that you've bought such-and-such? Clever."
Okay, crafts store. Wooden timbers, glue, canvas cloth, paper, an array of little metal tools. They don't sell bone and he doesn't know how to work metal, so he's not sure what he'll use for the parts that need to be harder than wood, but those are probably recoverable from his old glider.
It's enough that he has to carry it two-handed. "Before you complain about the cost, this stuff is to fix my glider. I know I probably can't use it properly here, but it gives me something to do."
It's enough that he has to carry it two-handed. "Before you complain about the cost, this stuff is to fix my glider. I know I probably can't use it properly here, but it gives me something to do."
"If you say so." Huff, huff. The pile isn't that heavy, really, it's just bulky.
"How do you get around other than walking? Those little platforms run on magic probably?"
"How do you get around other than walking? Those little platforms run on magic probably?"