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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.
Isabella in Elcenia
"Biting people, exerting your own mental influence on anyone, performing your 'sorcery' on any person who doesn't know what they're doing and agree to it, committing things legally defined as assault in general."
kaolinandbone
"Do I get a self-defense clause? There do exist things and people in this universe capable of killing me if they attempted to, and I'd prefer not to die stupidly because I was incapable of fighting back. Or, for that matter, dominating them and thereby stopping them from hurting me without having to risk physically injuring them."
"There's some flex around self-defense. You're very unlikely to be attacked, if you stay within the country and don't harass people, but if it happens you can fight back if escape is implausible. You can also ping me for help, of course, I don't have a range limit."
kaolinandbone
"Alright. Also, can we agree that if by some accident I end up in any other universe other than this one, it'd probably be a good idea for the binding to disappear? I don't especially feel like living the rest of my life with a psychic block because I was unlucky enough to encounter two interdimensional transport accidents within a year."
"How about it will wear off automatically in three years," says Keo, "unless I renew it, which obviously I won't be able to do if you're in some third world."
kaolinandbone
"Sounds reasonable."
Isabella sits back in her chair.
"Well then, I suppose you can go ahead and do... Whatever it is you do."
Isabella sits back in her chair.
"Well then, I suppose you can go ahead and do... Whatever it is you do."
"It won't feel like anything," Keo assures her.
Time passes.
"All done." Keo smudges the chalk circle.
Time passes.
"All done." Keo smudges the chalk circle.
kaolinandbone
Isabella steps out of the circle and stretches. "Ah. That's much better. Now, I am going to go see sunlight."
Large, batlike wings flare from her back, a swirling shadow that settles into leathery skin, a broad pair of wings that scrape along the floorboards. Isabella's fangs come in as she smiles, then launches herself past Keo and out the doorway. Her considerable wingspan phases through the wall with no apparent effect, and then Isabella is flying through the hallways of the school at considerable speed, looking for an open window or door big enough to let her out into the air.
Large, batlike wings flare from her back, a swirling shadow that settles into leathery skin, a broad pair of wings that scrape along the floorboards. Isabella's fangs come in as she smiles, then launches herself past Keo and out the doorway. Her considerable wingspan phases through the wall with no apparent effect, and then Isabella is flying through the hallways of the school at considerable speed, looking for an open window or door big enough to let her out into the air.
She scatters a couple of children on her way. The door at the end of the hallway turns out to lead to a windowless closet.
kaolinandbone
Feh. No fast exit this way, then. More haste, less speed, as usual.
She makes the turn - she can hover and turn on the spot if she wants, her wings are more metaphysical than actual- and goes back the other way. More slowly this time, she doesn't actually want to be rude to everyone she passes, but that is a secondary concern right now.
She makes the turn - she can hover and turn on the spot if she wants, her wings are more metaphysical than actual- and goes back the other way. More slowly this time, she doesn't actually want to be rude to everyone she passes, but that is a secondary concern right now.
kaolinandbone
Isabella is unsure why one would put a sign saying 'do not enter' on a stairwell, and these people are at least somewhat magic so this is probably not a good idea.
She sighs. Alright, this was a bad plan. Or rather, it wasn't a plan.
Keo, directions? Apologies for just flying off like that, my enthusiasm rather ran away from me.
She sighs. Alright, this was a bad plan. Or rather, it wasn't a plan.
Keo, directions? Apologies for just flying off like that, my enthusiasm rather ran away from me.
The enclosed room on the end of the hallway on the left as you leave Korulen and Saasnil's room is the lift. Tell it "front hall" and it'll take you there.
kaolinandbone
Isabella barrels into the lift, snaps out "Front Hall" and waits impatiently for it to do whatever it does.
There's a large front door. Beyond is sunny prairie, and farther off a city with very tall buildings.
kaolinandbone
Most importantly, there is sunlight. There is sunlight and it isn't burning her and she can still fly and she isn't dreaming (she just checked by scratching her arm with her fingernails, that still hurts properly, not muted like it would be in a dream)
She takes a moment just to bask.
She takes a moment just to bask.
kaolinandbone
It has been far too long since she could do this. She basks some more, then leisurely wings off towards the fields so that she doesn't make too much of a spectacle of herself.
There's plenty of empty space here. The locals have not heard of the concept of "suburbs". The city ends abruptly and then it's all greenbelt, some farms with little farmhouses.
kaolinandbone
Is there a tree she can perch in somewhere? Flying isn't very tiring for her, but she would rather not have to concentrate on not falling out of the sky.
kaolinandbone
She picks one that looks substantial enough to hold her weight and sets down in the top of it, sprawling out over a branch without caring much about the state of her dress.