"Cool, I can work on that. It... might not work, I don't know of runecasting ever being used to send people between worlds on account of I didn't know there were other worlds, but it's a pretty flexible system."

Even just a chance is important.

(And, now she's crying a little.)

"- you okay?"

Not really.

She hates being trapped.

"Avalon's not big enough?"

She's not even sure how big it is but she knows she can't leave.

She's had people take pictures of her because she's a magical girl before but she's never had someone point a gun at her about it.

"Oh, yikes. That explains the news this morning, I guess. Uh, if you've urgently got to get out, I can cast an invisibility spell. It doesn't last that long but it's enough to fly around a little, get some air."

She thinks she will be okay right now - knowing she could go helps a lot, and she's still a little wrung out from last night, she wouldn't be able to enjoy it properly - but she will probably want to actually go at some point. Thanks.

"You're welcome."

Her name is Dusk, by the way. Dusk Glory.

"May Swan, pleased to meet you."

So what is the avalon like, anyway? She got here really late last night, she hasn't seen much of it.

"It's basically just a small town where all the people who can't look human live and some of the people who can do too, and lots more who live in human spaces hang out. I don't live here myself. Other than the species composition and people knowing about magic it's pretty conventional, honestly."

Are there any places she should know about or anything?

"There's a little library, there's a lot of restaurants - a lot of the houses and apartments in Avalons don't have full kitchens, to save space, so people eat out a lot - I'm trying to think what the best way to keep you fed while you're stuck here is, I have some money but not like a lot -"

The lion guy who showed her the park last night was going to get her breakfast. And she can probably get a job, her second spell is really good and she can make organic things by shapeshifting, some magical girls make money that way. Or modeling but she doesn't really want to do that.

"I don't think modeling would work here anyway. The spell idea could work, if people aren't offput about child labor, what-all does it do?"

It makes things. Whatever things she wants. Complicated electronics don't work - a lamp does but a TV doesn't - and things with information on them don't work if they're too complicated - like a book - or work weirdly if they're less complicated - like a deck of cards - but simple enough things, like a sign, are fine. And things with moving parts stop working if she stops paying attention to them, but they also are - friendlier? Like she never learned to ride a real bike but she can ride a cartoon bike just fine, and she has trouble holding small things but cartoon things just stay in her hands anyway, and cartoon fire doesn't burn real things or go anywhere she doesn't want it to.

"Huh, that's really cool! I'm not immediately sure how you'd monetize it, there's not going to be a classified ad saying 'wanted: cartoon objects', but I'll keep an eye out."

At home she used it a lot for things like ladders, where you only need them once in a while for a few minutes and they just take up space in a closet the rest of the time. Or things that are too big to be worth keeping around for the few times you need them, or too hard to move to be practical, or things like that. Sometimes for specialty tools, too, like, if there's an exact kind of kitchen tool that would do a particular job it's probably not worth getting it to use it once, but she can just look at a picture and make one for five minutes.

Probably the easiest way to do it is just let people know what she can do and let them come find her when they want stuff.

"Yeah, okay, the lion guy can get you breakfast and I can cover your lunch and dinner today if he won't, and get an ad in the paper tomorrow morning."

That sounds good. She should figure out where she's going to be, first, too - she'll probably be hanging out in this tree a lot but she doesn't want people looking for her there all the time.

"Hmm, good point. If you want to sleep outdoors-as-the-Avalon-gets the park is the place for it but you could sit at one of the tables people eat at on Main Street during the day?"

Yeah, that should work. And just give a description of herself - she can change stuff around a little if 'the moth girl in the sunset themed outfit' isn't distinct enough.

"That's plenty distinct, I don't think we have any moth-y species at least around here."