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"Witches all have two names," it occurs to Ranata to say. "We mostly use the first, unless we're being formal or distinguishing between two with the same first name, and then it's both. Ranata Ekamma; Isabella Amariah. Like that. What's your full name?"
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kindestgarden
Ranata flies them to the zoo, lands, has a brief consultation with a new-hire teenager at reception who doesn't know what buttons to push on her computer to admit a witch or how to recognize an Olympic tattoo, and eventually gets them in.
Here is the zoo! It is full of animals. There are some loose, both wild (magpies) and domestic but harmless (peacocks, turkeys).
Here is the zoo! It is full of animals. There are some loose, both wild (magpies) and domestic but harmless (peacocks, turkeys).
headunbowed
These are birds she hasn't seen before! She snickers at the peacocks. "Those are the most flamboyant birds I have ever seen. In my entire life. But they're pretty!"
headunbowed
"Heh, yeah. There are so many colorful birds here! Do people sell the fancy feathers, do you think I could get some? If not, I'll let them be or like - try to scrounge. Attacking them for pretty feathers seems mean."
headunbowed
Elephants indeed! Zeviana 'Ooooos' and 'Awwws' at them. "How in the world do they do anything with those - long nose-things? Snouts? I don't know what to call them. They seem to be treating them like hands. On their face?"
There is no word for an elephant trunk in her language.
There is no word for an elephant trunk in her language.
kindestgarden
"Trunks," supplies Ranata in English. "Elephants are the only creatures that have anything quite like them!"
headunbowed
"Huh. Thanks! That's really weird and kind of cool! I suppose that's one method to deal with a really long nose. Just treat it like another limb and become an elephant."
kindestgarden
"Mostly abstracts, I think. The ones here don't do it. The paintings are mostly popular because elephants make them, you see, they're not artistic triumphs."
headunbowed
"Oooh. Well, makes sense, I suppose. It might be cool to see, but I doubt I'd want one. Where would I even put an elephant's painting?"
kindestgarden
"Yeah, I have that problem when I run into art I like all the time, whether I like it because elephants made it or not."
This zoo also has a bird show. The birds are flown around. Everyone seems to find this really interesting despite the fact that about twenty percent of the audience has bird daemons of various types.
This zoo also has a bird show. The birds are flown around. Everyone seems to find this really interesting despite the fact that about twenty percent of the audience has bird daemons of various types.
headunbowed
Zeviana is one of the members with a bird daemon! She finds this kind of interesting, but not as much as she did with the elephants. Unless the birds are pretty or particularly exotic, she's going to sit through it and then find something else to do.
Lecasryn can probably out fly them all, anyway.
Lecasryn can probably out fly them all, anyway.
kindestgarden
Well, Lecasryn would have a hard time doing any trick involving being more than a couple yards away from her human, whereas these birds are responding pretty effectively to commands sending them swooping over the heads of the audience and generally showing off.
At the end of the show a trained cockatoo will take donations, but of course neither Ranata nor Zeviana has any money to offer it.
Lions, tigers, and bears? Oh my?
At the end of the show a trained cockatoo will take donations, but of course neither Ranata nor Zeviana has any money to offer it.
Lions, tigers, and bears? Oh my?
headunbowed
Okay, Lecasryn will probably be able to out fly them all at some time in the future. Probably after the language spell, to get the proper witchy effect.
Indeed, Zeviana does not have money to offer it! Sorry. Witches and not-witches-in-training have no money.
Bears don't impress Zeviana much, bizarrely. There's an animal in New Kystle that is somewhat like a bear, so seeing one here isn't too much of a shock. She takes an affection towards all of the large, beautiful, and deadly cats, though. Her opinion is that they are all gorgeous and very, very deadly. She approves.
Indeed, Zeviana does not have money to offer it! Sorry. Witches and not-witches-in-training have no money.
Bears don't impress Zeviana much, bizarrely. There's an animal in New Kystle that is somewhat like a bear, so seeing one here isn't too much of a shock. She takes an affection towards all of the large, beautiful, and deadly cats, though. Her opinion is that they are all gorgeous and very, very deadly. She approves.
headunbowed
Goodness! So many things here at this zoo. Monkeys and gorillas earn some curious questions, but not the fascinated awe that the elephants or big cats gained. Gila monsters she finds curious and strange, with some nice color combinations, but otherwise has no opinion on. She's having a lot of fun, though! There's lots of stuff here to see!
kindestgarden
Snakes! Bugs! Salamanders! Skunks! Shrews!
(There are children at this zoo, and their daemons are trying out the forms they're looking at nine times out of ten.)
(There are children at this zoo, and their daemons are trying out the forms they're looking at nine times out of ten.)