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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
"Erubia doesn't allow wizardry, I think witchcraft too, but they'll allow other kinds of magic so it's not that bad - less convenient but at least they have lights. And yeah, it's really easy to immigrate to Esmaar most of the time once you get here. And there are some private charities that help with getting here."
"Good, good. Say, how many people live in Esmaar? And how many in the rest of Elcenia? Cloudbank is too spread out to get a good estimate, but it's probably something like two to five million people over the whole world."
"Um, I remember the world has like... ten billion people? Something like that. Esmaar I don't remember exactly, maybe a couple hundred million. We have plenty of people our size but not that many fey, they like places that get more rain - having a lot of fey will drive up a population fast because they're little."
He shakes his head. "My world's not tiny, or at least I don't think so. It's just more than 99% uninhabitable. You can't live on the solid land in my world, it's hotter than an oven down there and the air is poisonous. So everyone has to live dozens of klicks above it on piles of this sort of - floating rock. Here, I have some in my pocket."
He produces the rock. It floats upward when he lets it go, moving sideways in the breeze until he catches it. "That isn't magic, by the way. It floats on air by being lighter than it, the same way things float on water."
He produces the rock. It floats upward when he lets it go, moving sideways in the breeze until he catches it. "That isn't magic, by the way. It floats on air by being lighter than it, the same way things float on water."
"Weird," says Korulen. "I wonder where it would go if it just kept floating until it was out of the range of the planet's down-magic."
"...Down-magic. Does air get thinner as you go up? If so, it'll stop when the air is thin enough. I think it would just keep going if the air is the same all the way up, though."
Korulen looks puzzled, insofar as it is possible to read facial expressions on a toothy lizard face.
"Or a magic textbook. One or the other. Because I give up trying to understand how this place works, everything I've seen so far you explain is because magic."
They're getting close to the school now.
They're getting close to the school now.
"Then it's a good place for me to spend the rest of the day. My glider's still in your room, what's left of it anyway. Could we go get it from yours and then drop everything off in mine?"
"Yeah, sure."
Korulen even in dragon form is small enough to fit through doors, and the lift it voice operated, so she just stays like that to avoid carrying his bags until they get to his room. Then she shifts and puts everything on the floor.
Korulen even in dragon form is small enough to fit through doors, and the lift it voice operated, so she just stays like that to avoid carrying his bags until they get to his room. Then she shifts and puts everything on the floor.
"Have a nice day. Be careful with magic." Nick looks around. Does the room contain a flat surface other than the floor large enough to lay out his glider on?
Even the floor is kind of pushing it, but he could prop it up on the spare bed.
Korulen lets herself out, saying over her shoulder, "If you need anything else you can just think my mom's name really hard and she'll hear you."
Korulen lets herself out, saying over her shoulder, "If you need anything else you can just think my mom's name really hard and she'll hear you."
<Talking like this is... Strange. Anyway, are there workshops or workrooms of some kind available? My room isn't big enough to put out my glider's full wingspan so I can try to fix it.>