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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
"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.>
He ignores the books for now. They'll still be there later. He opens a workroom, finds it occupied by someone making hand signs, and tries another. This one is empty. He lays out his supplies and gets to work.
The first thing is to detach the broken parts of the wings, leaving only intact timbers. He cuts away sections of canvas to work the snapped pieces free. The little bone-carved mechanisms for folding the wings and controlling the little flaps at the end are mostly intact, so he extracts those too.
This will take a few hours, and the workrooms don't have locks.
The first thing is to detach the broken parts of the wings, leaving only intact timbers. He cuts away sections of canvas to work the snapped pieces free. The little bone-carved mechanisms for folding the wings and controlling the little flaps at the end are mostly intact, so he extracts those too.
This will take a few hours, and the workrooms don't have locks.
Students check to see whether the room's available a couple of times, but they just close the door again when it isn't.
So he keeps working. Broken glider salvaged as much as possible, he starts to test the wood from the craft shop, cutting a short piece of it and bending until it snaps. It's not a kind he's familiar with. It's heavier and more brittle, but also a lot stronger.
"This calls for a redesign." He finishes disassembling the old glider. Parts and tools go in bags, bags go in hands, Nick goes back to his room. And then to the cafeteria for a snack.
"This calls for a redesign." He finishes disassembling the old glider. Parts and tools go in bags, bags go in hands, Nick goes back to his room. And then to the cafeteria for a snack.
<Keo, you said I'm stuck for the near future. How am I going to go home in the not-near-future? I'd like to go back eventually, even if there's nobody I'm urgently missing.>
<When Korulen has advanced far enough to get a familiar, it'll increase her channeling capacity, possibly by enough that she can send you home herself. If she can't do it, Saasnil can try, although it's a longer shot. We can have someone good at spell breaks look at you, but that's iffy at the best of times, and a co-cast is not the best of times.>
<If a break works, will it send me back that instant? Because I'll fall into the deeps without my ship there to catch me.>
<If a break is successfully cast, yes. Someone can analyze the feasibility without actually casting the break, and if it's feasible we can plan to unsummon you along with someone who can fly you to safety.>
<It isn't urgent on a scale of days. I would definitely like to import conjured things if and when I go back, though. What kind of things sell well here? What sort of jobs are available here so I could fund such a project? Who should I ask about this kind of thing if you don't know or want me to stop bugging you?>
<I'm not sure what your standards for selling well are. You probably don't have any locally demanded skills, and even in a nominally unskilled job you're unfamiliar with how, say, retail works here. The girls, being the source of your inconvenience, are more or less at your disposal if you need anything, but they're less likely to be able to answer questions than I am.>
<I mostly want money so I pay someone to conjure and send various things. We have almost zero raw resources in Cloudbank, anything I can have sent there there will be exceptionally valuable. In particular, wood, silver, steel, rubber, and meat are worth a lot of money. I could try trade, buy glassware or something for a bit of steel, sell the glass in Elcenia, pay someone to conjure more steel.>