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He's trying to kill us--could ruin him--worry about that later--grab your sister and go.
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"- have you only de-aged humans?"
"Dragons aren't the only nonhuman species around; I'm wondering about elves, for instance. Corenta is human-majority, but filtering customers for species would be something we'd need to pay attention to."
powerispain
"...My first instinct is to offer to try to do it for free for one elf to see if it's the same."
"Is there any risk of side effect or backfire for the subject, either because it is not the same for elves or in general because of caster error?"
"We can probably have enough subjects to cover your spell suite before the day's out, but would be delighted to entertain your services beyond that as we source other interest," the receptionist says, "for spending money or other incidentals."
powerispain
"I'm not even going to consider long-term commitments until I'm sure my sister's okay but I'm not ruling anything out until then either."
"All right. Would you like a spare caster's office to wait in while I find clients?"
So the receptionist shows her to somebody's office - apparently they have the day off - and leaves her there with an estimate of half an angle to get ahold of a first client.
powerispain
...Less boring than several hours floating in the void of space. Presumably. What's an angle?
It's a unit of time. There are twenty-five of them in a day, and the receptionist casts a time spell to display how quickly the subdivisions of angles go by.
And indeed half an hour later the receptionist shows a little old lady to Odette's temporary office!
powerispain
It takes her about ten minutes to get her looking and feeling like she's twenty.
The little old lady is so happy! She hugs Odette and skips off making vague remarks about the boy who looks after her garden.
They find her an elf next. The elf looks sort of like a human except with long pointy ears, white hair, and purple eyes.
They find her an elf next. The elf looks sort of like a human except with long pointy ears, white hair, and purple eyes.
powerispain
Odette pokes at her with her Sympathy senses. There isn't much in the way of meaningful difference. Since she's an elf, she looks like sixty instead of twenty when Odette's done with her, not that Odette has been informed of that.
The elf is also very happy!
The receptionist will keep sending in old people until Odette says she's done, and will tell her how much cash she's accumulated.
The receptionist will keep sending in old people until Odette says she's done, and will tell her how much cash she's accumulated.
powerispain
Odette isn't going to say she's done for a good long time. Helping people! Adding decades onto peoples' lives! Best thing!
Then she can have more old people even past the usual closing time of the office! They will stay open late just for this.
powerispain
Excellent. She's pretty much not going to stop until they stop bringing her old people.
Eventually the receptionist is replaced by a different receptionist, presumably because the first one's shift is over, but they must be taking a heck of a cut because they're really excited about continuing to bring her old people.
powerispain
It is possible Odette will request some form of caffeine if this goes on long enough.
They have tea! She can have all the tea she likes, on the house.