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Being alone in the desert like this sucks.
The blue-haired shren seems to know which ones are how old; she might be figuring it out by size or just from knowing the kids. She indicates a sparkly blue one.
powerispain
Sure. Actually...
She makes a noise and sits down abruptly, gritting her teeth. "I decided it would save time to do them all at once."
She makes a noise and sits down abruptly, gritting her teeth. "I decided it would save time to do them all at once."
(The babies are so excited, gamboling around and chattering to each other.)
"There's three other houses," the blue-haired shren says. "What's your range?"
"There's three other houses," the blue-haired shren says. "What's your range?"
"They're farther away than that, but we could shuffle them around, it might be more efficient to concentrate you on a few older ones."
"That'd cover all the babies that age who haven't learned to shift yet, we could start tapering them down on the painkillers - I'll make some calls - we'll need a tank if we get the ones from the violet group house -" She departs the room.
The babies swarm over Odette enthusiastically.
The babies swarm over Odette enthusiastically.
powerispain
...Aww. Babies. She's not in so much pain that she can't be distracted from it at least a little by small children.
They're very cute! They have figured out that she is the one doing the thing! It is a good thing and she is a good human and she can pet them if she wants!
powerispain
She wants! She will happily fuss over small not-in-pain children until it starts getting close to sunset or Jensal comes back or something.
Jensal comes back. "The Kep Island house wizard is going to bring over the eldest two from there and then go to the Corenta house for theirs; the other house will have to wait until we have a tank."
powerispain
"If all you need is flight, and you're already in this much pain, probably not that hard. Flight isn't tricky, or anything, it just hurts more than, say, running really fast. Might need to practice some doing other kinds of magic first to build up the power--oh. And, um, meditation--my kind of magic has mental side effects--" she describes the relative mental side effects of Sympathy, Effort and Conquest and how some people are more resistant to them than others and how meditation and related forms of self-discipline ameliorate that. "But if it's just flying every now and then to keep the esu away it probably shouldn't have a huge effect."
"The babies would probably have a hard time learning to meditate," remarks Jensal.
There is a knock at the door and Jensal opens it to reveal a silver-haired woman holding a baby. "I'll go get the other one," she says, handing Jensal the baby, and she teleports away.
There is a knock at the door and Jensal opens it to reveal a silver-haired woman holding a baby. "I'll go get the other one," she says, handing Jensal the baby, and she teleports away.
powerispain
And Odette--cringes, drops a handful of the younger ones, and assumes the pain from the new baby.
powerispain
She drops a handful more. Dammit, why can't she be better than this. She grabs the new baby.