Even intimidating-looking cryptids are rarely dangerous, especially to magical girls, so when Dusk finds a giant snake with a mirror for a face in the park at half past midnight, she's not too worried.
She hasn't had a chance to see if her telepathy works with cryptids, yet, so she tries it, sending a friendly greeting - and she's promptly eaten. How rude.
It's easier at home, people have figured out how risky different things are and she can look it up.
Yeah. She does know some things - she doesn't have the numbers all memorized but there are a lot of things that she knows are less expensive than wings, or less than half as expensive - but she's never wanted to be a mermaid.
"They can be humans, more or less. With a medallion, or if they're born human shaped and never get one."
She tugs the chain of her own medallion. "These are enchanted. For a lot of critter species - though not all, there's some who are stuck and there's some who can shapeshift on their own - what happens is, they spend a lot of time looking human to pass outside the Avalon, and if they have kids while they're doing that, the kids look human from birth. Later the kids can use medallions to gain the ability to turn into whatever they really are under the spell, but if they don't they can still pass it on quietly for generations so sometimes there's a surprise in a family that doesn't remember being critters at all anymore. Other critters have kids while they're shaped like critters, and those kids are born in critter form and need medallions to look human."
That sounds like it's pretty convenient.
She doesn't know if this is rude to ask but she's curious what kind of critter May is, now.
"Wyvern. I don't go fullform much, what with the wheelchair and the lack of hands, but -" She kicks out a foot, and it goes blue-scaled and clawful.
Magical girls do scales sometimes. They're a little expensive, but not so much that you can't do that and wings - one of the girls at one of the churches they visited when they were on vacation over the summer had black opalescent scales all over, like this, she was just gorgeous.
She's getting a little hungry, she should go get breakfast. She'll come find May again after?
Vince answers the door. "Morning, Dusk! - heh, that's a little funny."
"What d'you want for breakfast?"
"Okay, let's go to Polly's, I could go for an omelette."
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