He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
This "using cars" thing seems like maybe more trouble than it's cracked up to be. Under twenty miles an hour it is.
(The absolute risk in a car with modern safety features is pretty small, but the safety features were probably designed for people at least two feet shorter and slightly differently shaped than he is.)
Yeah he's super going to err on the side of caution. He drives to the post office very slowly, posts his letters, and leaves.
He's very aware of the gazes of the people around him--there's no avoiding that when you're nine feet tall. The people seem more curious than hostile, here, but it's still not something he feels able to handle gracefully at the moment, so he makes a minimum of conversation and, subsequently, his escape.
What little he's read about fascism has scared the bejeebers out of him and politics is not his comparative advantage so he's going to go study some books that are not about politics now.
And Lucy is likewise absorbed in her studies, but eventually she wants to take a break, and--
"Can I have a preprint fairy circle to go to Antarctica?"
"The big one is called Davidson's. They summon randoms and find out what they want and what they're good at and publish the results. If the first fairy you try is on summon at the moment, or busy, this takes longer than a random, but since you're new at summoning and a random could even well-bound try to trick or intimidate you, it's probably the better plan." He looks through Davidson's Fairy List.
"I wonder if it took fairies longer to invent plumbing since going to fetch water is easier for them."
"Probably! I vaguely remember from some fairy history book I read that they routed early plumbing development through the desire for hot water."
"Yeah," agrees Cam, and before either can say anything else, the fairy appears. He's got green and black butterfly wings, black eyes, brown skin, and red hair, and he's wearing a weirdly elaborate wrap in black and gold that goes between the wings.
"Hello, sum - wait, are you not a demon?" says the fairy.
"I'm a demon," says Cam.
"- okay, where's the summoner."