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It's an average day. Nick the fairy is poking at one of his little electronics projects, paying attention to the incoming summons with half a brain, trying to grab one. But while a lot of fairies get summoned, equally many are looking out for summons. It takes a while unless you're really focusing on it.
He starts an automated test and gives the stream of summons his full attention, and gets one a moment later.
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impetuous_force
"Roxbury mentioned witchcraft's addictive and dangerous. We can probably cough up a witch who's heavy-duty enough to do it without serious problems but they'd be a little tough to schedule for obvious reasons. I did my own mental defenses and I had to pretend to be sick for a week."
"I keep forgetting that your magic has costs. Daeva don't get tired, and the only danger is not knowing what you're doing well enough and breaking things. Guess that's a 'not worth it' then."
impetuous_force
"I mean, I wouldn't go that far, I still did it for myself, but I can't just whip up a set of wards right now unless I want to be high for three days and pissy for four."
"It'll wait for someone heavy-duty. I'm probably not being exposed to a lot of people who want to read my mind right now."
impetuous_force
"Yeah. I'll remind Roxbury." She flips to elsewhere in her notebook and writes this down.
"Lots of stuff that's happening at the speed of bureaucracy. When I agreed to stay here until otherwise permitted I assumed it'd be for one day, two at most."
"I don't want to go anywhere specific, I want to have control of my location. I could just leave and wander the Earth or I'd be freaking out a fair bit more, but I can't do that without wrecking whatever working relationship I've earned and threatening to start spells flying."
"Not much different than being an unbound fairy on the other Earth there... I could fly through the non-touristy parts of the grand canyon. Eh, ignore my complaining if you want, griping about something makes me feel temporarily better about it even if it doesn't get rid of the thing."
"I've trying to think of understandable ways to explain how all this stuff works, care to be a test audience?"
So, he starts explaining, making liberal use of sketches and animations on his tablet, as well as metaphors using everyday objects and more familiar kinds of physics.
It's much more comprehensible this time, though it's still slow going. When he's surprised she doesn't already know this or that, he detours to explain the necessary concepts.
It's much more comprehensible this time, though it's still slow going. When he's surprised she doesn't already know this or that, he detours to explain the necessary concepts.
impetuous_force
She follows along pretty intelligently given her prior education in the area.
After an hour and a bit, "It seems I can be a semi-effective teacher, which is probably going to be useful. That's enough for now though, I should get back to working on these tools."
impetuous_force
"Sure. I've got a training thing I'm supposed to do sometime today if you don't need me."
"What are they even training you on? Endless streams of rules?"
impetuous_force
"Some of that, and I have to be in decent physical condition to the limits of my ability, and I need to know the standard spells."
"Hm. Good luck with that."
impetuous_force
"Thanks."
Next time she comes by with a meal she also has his partially disassembled flashlight in a box.
Next time she comes by with a meal she also has his partially disassembled flashlight in a box.
There does not appear to have been much progress on the various machine-things. They look pretty much the same as when she was last here.
"Aha, finally. What's the word from on high?" Nick begins carefully inspecting the various pieces of his flashlight.
"Aha, finally. What's the word from on high?" Nick begins carefully inspecting the various pieces of his flashlight.
impetuous_force
Everything's there. There's small scratches in a few places where things intended to be twisted out of the way with teekay were instead twisted with other tools.
"They're willing to assume you'll tell them how to build more of those," says Bella. "And I have the go-ahead to summon something else if you tell me how and I'm in a heavily warded room at the time. I get to do it because of need-to-know and in case there's some weird effect from summoning daeva since I've already summoned you."
"They're willing to assume you'll tell them how to build more of those," says Bella. "And I have the go-ahead to summon something else if you tell me how and I'm in a heavily warded room at the time. I get to do it because of need-to-know and in case there's some weird effect from summoning daeva since I've already summoned you."
"I don't know of any weird effects on summoners, but I wouldn't rule it out, your magic is not friendly. And I'm pretty much at the end of what I can do towards manufacturing them unless you can send me to Fairyland and back on a shopping trip and/or find me a proper workshop. And summoning will speed things up too. Do you want to risk summoning a maker, or stick with the less universally hostile changers?"
impetuous_force
"From what you've said the worst case scenario if I don't mess anything up with a maker is that we can't agree and I have to send them back?"