you gave me nothing at all | Glowfic Constellation

Mar 14, 2025 3:02 PM

cam meets some fastfairies and the thread authors take no position on the presence of an adorable romance arc

They observe some humans summoning a magical spirit one day.

It's hard to tell all the details when you have to watch in shifts over the course of several weeks and when you can't hear anything they're saying, but the overall picture seems clear. First, their barn burned down. Then, they stood outside watching it sadly for a while. Then a woman went away into the forest, and wrote some things on the ground, lots and lots of detailed human words. Then a magical spirit appeared. Then the magical spirit walked back with her and replaced the barn and filled up the new barn with food. Then she had sex with the magical spirit. Then the magical spirit disappeared.

It makes sense, in the way human things often don't make sense. It seems like the kind of thing you could perhaps try yourself.

They carefully copy the human words onto the ground in a fairy circle. They carefully draw a circle in the dirt around the words.

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Campbell Mark Swan

from_scratch

Alicorn

"Don't think we can count on having a reliable supply of elderly humans unless for some reason we wind up harboring a breeding human population who keep real quiet in Limbo once they die. Missing persons reports get more follow-up later on in history."

Caranthir

morifinwe

lintamande

"Maybe there's some way to transfer the debt to a slow human without them noticing. I don't know how to accomplish that but it could be possible."

from_scratch

"...interesting."

morifinwe

Bounce. "We can ask some court that has dealings with humans, they'll all know that kind of thing."

Campbell Mark Swan

from_scratch

Alicorn

"Even if they have an interest they haven't necessarily discovered all there is to know."

Caranthir

morifinwe

lintamande

"Well, if we need to we can experiment ourselves."

Campbell Mark Swan

from_scratch

Alicorn

"Plenty of time, and all that."

Caranthir

morifinwe

lintamande

He glances at his brother but his brother has wandered off to mediate a dispute among drunk people.

"Yeah."

Campbell Mark Swan

from_scratch

Alicorn

"...Am I liable for supplying intoxicants to that dustup over there?"

Caranthir

morifinwe

lintamande

"Hmmm? No, they made their own choices. Poor choices, apparently. - if I'd been designing the system drugging people would make you accountable for them at least if they weren't informed about it, but I really really really did not design the system."

Campbell Mark Swan

from_scratch

Alicorn

"Well, you'd invented alcohol so they knew what it was in a general sense - I guess I didn't advertise what proof everything was -"

Caranthir

morifinwe

lintamande

"I suspect those are stronger than what we make but that's possible to taste, it doesn't excuse them. I more meant, sometimes people drug prisoners, and they shouldn't."