call and response | Glowfic Constellation

She doesn't stare! Well, not any more than she stares at anything, she doesn't stare at them in particular, this place is so different! Architecturally as well as anthropologically.

The architecture doesn't mind being stared at a bit.

Illia Zavier

sheerstubbornness

Almost a shame they're going home sooner rather than later, but it wouldn't do to make their parents think they were dead any longer than necessary.

powerispain

When do the wizard people close? Odette decides to head over to see if anyone's still around to talk to. Illia accompanies her despite the lingering twinges in her legs because she never got a translation spell and therefore cannot talk to anyone else unless they happen to be a dragon.

Wizard office is open until a little after dinnertime.

powerispain

Odette doesn't know when dinnertime is, around here. The fact that it's after dark may or may not mean it's closed.

It's open!

powerispain

Oh, excellent. Presumably there will be someone interested in talking to her, considering how excited they all were yesterday.

They're very excited! What can they do for her? Would she like some more old people?

powerispain

First she would like to talk about getting home. For one thing, can they send her home and bring her back, because she is definitely interested in de-aging more people but also she would like their parents not to think they are dead, did she mention that they came here fleeing a murder attempt?

Gosh, a murder attempt. Well, they will be happy to provide scries on her parents, send letters, or -

- there may actually be a small technical problem with sending them back, come to think of it.

powerispain

...Oh? A real technical problem, one assumes, and not merely an...error introduced by their enthusiasm...and she will find this even if she asks completely unrelated wizards?

What? Of course a real technical problem! Look, here is a textbook on transworld spells. See, they weren't summoned here - as far as they know - and therefore cannot be unsummoned; but they are also not Elcenian, so it's likely they can't be sent.

powerispain

Okay, that does sound like a very real technical problem. Why did they not mention this earlier.

It didn't occur to them, usually people don't enter the world without having been summoned! They apologize, they're very sorry, the technical problem will not apply to shuffling their parents or correspondence around...?

powerispain

...Well. If they can summon their parents that would be significantly better than nothing.

They will get right on that. Both at once or one of them first?

powerispain

Will it be faster if they do them one at a time?

They are perfectly happy to have two wizards working in parallel on this and can have both parents here in an angle if she desires.

powerispain

That sounds better than not, at this point.

So they draw up some diagrams and have her and Illia (provided with a free translation spell of her own) serve as foci and perform the summons.

Karole Zavier was, apparently, sitting down prior to being summoned, and is too busy falling over from sudden lack of chair to immediately do anything.

Raikel Lehnsherr appears facing away from her daughters. In the instant she arrives, her face is an etching of pain and rage, that transforms into startlement and suspicion when she arrives. She turns angrily to snap at whoever she can see who seems most likely to be responsible.

And then her eyes land on her children and her face melts into shock and the raw healing pain of someone who's just learned that their worst nightmares have not come to pass.

The wizards cast translation spells for them and welcome them to Elcenia!

They are not paying attention to irrelevant not-daughter persons. They are paying attention to thank Aten and anyone else who might be listening my children are not dead.

There is a lot of hugging.