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In this room are two women, one gray and sixty years old, one just thirty and red-haired, both wearing elaborate outfits. The younger casts a spell.
In this room is now also a third person. (On whom the elder woman promptly also casts a spell, which she had at the ready.)
Matilda in Elcenia
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missnicegirl
"I can fix you all today, I think," Matilda explains to Quaro, "but it'll be hard to bring you to the bottom of the world in large batches because you live underwater and I can't breathe there. How should we do that part?"
"It's pretty deserted here. I can call to make sure there are no dragons around, which there probably aren't, and we can just do it here," Quaro says. "I'll send everybody up."
Quaro calls. Indeed there are no dragons around.
And he sends up a lot of shrens, who go from merfolk to various bird forms as they surface, fly out far enough to give each other room, and shift natural in an admirably orderly fashion.
And he sends up a lot of shrens, who go from merfolk to various bird forms as they surface, fly out far enough to give each other room, and shift natural in an admirably orderly fashion.
And they fly (and swim) around happily.
"Next house, or is that all for the day?" asks Jensal, who this time had the foresight to bring a coat.
"Next house, or is that all for the day?" asks Jensal, who this time had the foresight to bring a coat.
missnicegirl
She checks the time.
"I don't have time to do a whole next house but I have time to do part of one. Should I wait until I have time to do them all in one go?"
"I don't have time to do a whole next house but I have time to do part of one. Should I wait until I have time to do them all in one go?"
missnicegirl
And she takes them to the bottom of the world and fixes them all.
"I think ialdae's learned this well enough that someone who's not me might be able to do it too," she says to Jensal and Ludei when she has fixed all of the kids. "But I don't know how to safely teach a person how to do it, because it's not like moving things or changing colours or making healing lights or even teleporting where if you get it a little bit wrong you're probably okay. If you get this a little bit wrong somebody dies."
"I think ialdae's learned this well enough that someone who's not me might be able to do it too," she says to Jensal and Ludei when she has fixed all of the kids. "But I don't know how to safely teach a person how to do it, because it's not like moving things or changing colours or making healing lights or even teleporting where if you get it a little bit wrong you're probably okay. If you get this a little bit wrong somebody dies."
"You've already got most of the shrens in the world," says Jensal.
"But if you can teach us to do this safely and we can pass it on to others, then shrens who hatch in the future will be able to receive cures even when you are not here anymore," says Ludei.
"But if you can teach us to do this safely and we can pass it on to others, then shrens who hatch in the future will be able to receive cures even when you are not here anymore," says Ludei.
missnicegirl
"I think... if I can teach someone how to see magic, and they're shiny like you are, and they could find a volunteer who was okay with being fixed less safely so someone can learn, then I'd be okay trying to teach them how to fix shrens. I'm not sure how to teach someone how to see magic, though, except the way I learned, which is having someone put a wizardry analysis on me and then it just sort of stuck when they took it off. Is there a wizardry analysis that sees dragon magic?"
Ehail turns out to be a silver-haired wizard. "I... have a prototype of an analysis that sees dragon magic," she says.
missnicegirl
"Can you cast it on Ludei and Jensal and then take it off? Or is it the kind that only works on the caster?"
"It only works on the caster... I didn't know anybody else would need to look at dragon magic," Ehail apologizes. "I can walk them through casting it. The intentionality is pretty simple."
The next day, Jensal and Ludei are both going around with their dragon magic analyses on continuously so they don't have to reverse and recast the spells.
missnicegirl
Matilda collects Jensal and goes to Ludei's house and asks for Ludei and Ehail.
And she says, "I think it would make sense for you two to watch me fix Ehail so you see how it works. But it'll be better if you can watch it through ialdae and not through wizardry. Can you take the analysis off and see if it stuck?"
And she says, "I think it would make sense for you two to watch me fix Ehail so you see how it works. But it'll be better if you can watch it through ialdae and not through wizardry. Can you take the analysis off and see if it stuck?"
missnicegirl
He can still see dragon magic. But after a few ticks he can see it much more clearly, and with a kind of aura of understanding that explains which parts are important for what; and a few ticks after that, he can see ialdae, on himself and Jensal like bonfires and on Matilda like a tiny sun.
"Did it work?" asks Matilda.
"Did it work?" asks Matilda.