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He's trying to kill us--could ruin him--worry about that later--grab your sister and go.
This is the sky.
She's not falling; there is air; there is not a down.
There's a planet, overhead - she could call it "below" and declare herself upside-down.
It's pretty. ...It's square.
She's not falling; there is air; there is not a down.
There's a planet, overhead - she could call it "below" and declare herself upside-down.
It's pretty. ...It's square.
powerispain
What the fuck.
...Is there anything besides air in naive unaugmented range of her Sympathy-senses?
...Is there anything besides air in naive unaugmented range of her Sympathy-senses?
Nope!
There's a moon, thataway. It's hemispherical. There is a sun, underfoot, casting daylight on the square.
There's a moon, thataway. It's hemispherical. There is a sun, underfoot, casting daylight on the square.
powerispain
Why is that moon a hemisphere--why is that...planet? square, why is she not currently dying of asphyxiation.
Well.
Maybe there will be answers on the...square thing. (She's not ready to label it a planet.)
She starts flying.
Well.
Maybe there will be answers on the...square thing. (She's not ready to label it a planet.)
She starts flying.
The square obligingly becomes closer as she flies to it.
When she gets close enough the square is suddenly "down".
When she gets close enough the square is suddenly "down".
powerispain
She flips over so the blood isn't rushing to her head and continues descending. She aims for...they have three continents, or continent-like things, okay, she'll go for that one on the edge that's closeish to that other one.
The place is inhabited! As she approaches she can see cities and towns.
It has tall buildings and pedestrian-friendly streets and flying vehicles and plenty of humans and a few definitely not humans with feathers or long ears or diminutive stature. Nobody seems surprised that she is flying.
powerispain
For lack of a better idea, she finds someone who doesn't look busy, approaches them with a vaguely apologetic smile, and starts trying languages at them.
Well, they don't speak her language, but they listen to her for a bit and then yell at somebody with variegated green hair walking down the street the opposite direction. The lady with the variegated green hair comes over and gestures for Odette to continue. The original pedestrian leaves Odette in the care of green hair person.
"Whoa," says the green hair lady in the same language, "what language even is this?"
powerispain
"It's called Genoshan. It's from the Free City of Genosha. Which is on a flying island. Above a spherical planet. I am really extremely lost."
"A spherical planet? Wow, how did you even get here?" asks green hair lady. "Um, welcome to Elcenia, I guess?"
powerispain
"I was trying to teleport away from a murder attempt and found myself floating with a weird square thing above my head."
"What kind of lousy teleport spell does that?"
powerispain
"The kind where you're more concerned with getting away than getting to. I wasn't thinking very clearly, because murder attempt."
"I just don't see why you'd learn a spell that did that in the first place?"
powerispain
"I didn't know teleporting could do that. I expected--well, I expected to land elsewhere in the city, or at worst somewhere else on the planet."
"You must have weird teleportation spells on your spherical planet."
powerispain
"I feel like we're talking at cross-purposes. What do you mean by teleportation spells?"
"You cast it and then you arrive wherever you were going."
powerispain
"No but like what's with spells, plural, d'you have a way to teleport by Sympathy here?"
"By what?"