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Grendyne groans and starts pulling on her boots when the alarm goes off. Again. She quick-marches to the broom hangar, sits on her machine and is handed a plethora of loaded weapons by attentive corporals.
"Two flyers in one day? They're getting way too common."
"It's worse," the commander informs them, "South Karlsland got hit with three at once. We're taking Lytee's express and sleeping there. You can sit out if you absolutely need to, but Freya's still recovering so we could use you as a comms relay."
"No, I'll come. I just reserve the right to complain about it."
The 42nd United Forces Witch Wing takes off, bracing to fight yet another city-destroying monster, and assembles into a perfect synchronized formation as Lytee charges her teleport power.
...This is not South Karlsland wilderness.
Near the Golden Coven capital, in Aurum
Near Savarasse, in Thilanushinyel
Near Whately Academy
With Unbitwise
witchwatcher
luminous_regnant
"Okay," says Kelly.
[Siobhan has a witchcraft ability which is sufficiently subtle that she didn't know she had it until Addy confirmed, but it allows her to make excellent nearly-foolproof plans to achieve goals. Given sufficient information and effort.]
[Siobhan has a witchcraft ability which is sufficiently subtle that she didn't know she had it until Addy confirmed, but it allows her to make excellent nearly-foolproof plans to achieve goals. Given sufficient information and effort.]
witchwatcher
[Sounds tricky. I'll let you know if I can manage it.]
She buckles up. She's all out of confusing things about the world to quiz Shawn on, so she starts in on vampire and werewolf history.
She buckles up. She's all out of confusing things about the world to quiz Shawn on, so she starts in on vampire and werewolf history.
Which he also knows things about, if with the spotty understanding of a thirteen-year-old boy who does not always do his homework. Kelly fills in where he draws blanks.
witchwatcher
"If you've still got formal schooling left, that should probably continue happening. Come to think of it maybe I should do some sort of school too. Haven't had formal schooling since I got out of Witch training at age 14."
"I don't have to go to school anymore since activating unless I want to," says Shawn. "If I'm missing stuff the pack will fill me in when we're all being wolfily telepathic."
"Oh, when we're wolf shaped we can all hear what everybody else in our pack who's wolf shaped is thinking."
witchwatcher
"I was imagining a certain... Trajectory, here. In a few years. If it turns out I really can't go home. It's just how all the 'love stories' end up and most of the time they seem to be content. But this might change it. Does this mean that either we never marry, or everyone in your pack eventually gets to hear what you think of me naked if you happen to remember it in the correct shape?"
Blink. Blink. "I mean... that... would happen, but everybody's chill about it? I could quit my wolf though? If you want?"
"If he does that he stops being immortal," Kelly mentions. "Just so you're clear."
"If he does that he stops being immortal," Kelly mentions. "Just so you're clear."
witchwatcher
"I won't make you quit your wolf, then. I'll think about the other thing, it's a ways off at any rate."
Nod nod. "Um, I can try practicing not thinking about things while wolfed?"
"If it's actually nudity you're concerned about and that wasn't a metaphor," Kelly says dryly, "wolves have very little nudity taboo of necessity. The transformation's hell on clothes that aren't designed to come undone easily. Hence the magnetic uniforms."
"If it's actually nudity you're concerned about and that wasn't a metaphor," Kelly says dryly, "wolves have very little nudity taboo of necessity. The transformation's hell on clothes that aren't designed to come undone easily. Hence the magnetic uniforms."
witchwatcher
"Don't bother until I've thought about it some, Shawn. But yeah, it was a metaphor. And I'm done talking about this for now."
witchwatcher
Silent pondering until they get close to the airport.
[We're at the airport entrance, Siobhan. Are you finding us or the other way around?]
[We're at the airport entrance, Siobhan. Are you finding us or the other way around?]
[I'll find you.]
Kelly recognizes Siobhan and points her out as she approaches. She is a very big person, and moves with a more liquid grace than the sharp, instant precision of other vampires Gren has seen.
"Hello," says Siobhan. "Been enjoying Ireland?"
Kelly recognizes Siobhan and points her out as she approaches. She is a very big person, and moves with a more liquid grace than the sharp, instant precision of other vampires Gren has seen.
"Hello," says Siobhan. "Been enjoying Ireland?"
witchwatcher
"Hullo. Yes, it's nice. A bit surprising how the geography is so similar to the Ireland from my world, but I never got to spend much time there, got shipped straight on to London. The coast is beautiful."
witchwatcher
"Just being around you, looking at you. It's a very subtle power you have, though. Intricate and layered. Smells like, mm, a mine of some sort."
"It's too deep for me to get a feel for all of it at once. I have a sort of basic hold on it now, but I wouldn't be able to call it up later. That might change if you hung around for an hour or described... How you go about planning things."
"It's too deep for me to get a feel for all of it at once. I have a sort of basic hold on it now, but I wouldn't be able to call it up later. That might change if you hung around for an hour or described... How you go about planning things."
"The short version is I consider something that seems obvious to do, and then imagine that I tried that and it went wrong, and figure out why it would have gone wrong. Repeatedly."
witchwatcher
"Yes, I see how it helps with that... There's more to this power than just making it obvious what sorts of things could go wrong and helping you keep everything in mind at once, but I think those are the broad strokes of it. I could be wrong, of course, I'm not infallible at interpreting these things."
"Bella did mention that you're not as instantaneous or automatic as Addy. But apparently you can use multiple powers at once, which must be interesting."
witchwatcher
"Oh, very. Especially since I don't use the powers directly, I sort of- translate them into terms my magic understands. They usually end up costing ungodly amounts of mana, Maggie and Dwi have lucky synergy. It's a bit like trying to find a way to combine two different jigsaw puzzles."
witchwatcher
"I think it could help me find more efficient ways to combine others, though I really don't think I'm going to manage to hold on to yours permanently, alas. Or at least not all of it."
"Oh well. I'll go on living in the mild annoyance that Bella may be inclined to call on me to plan things for her if she ever has a major crisis," says Siobhan dryly.