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.
Giggle. "Yes, I do." Conjure. "Mrindeh's in New Orleans. Do you fancy Louisiana?"
"To the shuttle. If you're invested in what you're working on on that drawing board we can wheel it in, Lucy."
"If it'd be more convenient to make another one on the ground that's fine," Lucy says, abandoning it but scooping up the smaller tablet with her schoolwork on it.
"If would be, a bit." When everyone is aboard the ship he looks up a nice rural area accessible to Louisiana that is not currently developed or on record as owned.
"Yeah, it gets hot here. I'll make us an air conditioning system when I'm designing the house."
"I don't mind the heat," she says thoughtfully. "Or the cold. But that'll be convenient for people more human than me."
"Back when I was small enough to go outside I used to play in the snow in the winter even though I've never met a coat I could wear."
"I am glad your limited apparel options did not deprive you of playing in the snow."
"I bet! It doesn't snow here but since summoning works normally you can get fairies to take you snowy places sometimes probably."
"Yeah. Admittedly I would probably not be the best in a snowball fight that included a fairy."
"Depends on what rules you make the fairy follow. If they can assemble ammunition magically but still have to throw the balls with their hands you could probably beat a lot of them."
"It really doesn't seem fair to make someone having a snowball fight with me use only hands for anything."
Giggle. "My computer doesn't have a summoning curriculum, can I have one?"
"Yes, with the caution that until you're really solid at it you don't want to summon strangers with a homemade circle. Even professionals usually start with preprint templates."
"I think a lot of people wouldn't have made awful trouble, but yeah."
"They wouldn't even have to make trouble for us to be really lucky we got you."