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Morgan doesn't strictly need to sleep. Even if she didn't want to put up with the annoyance of constantly having a caffeine buzz and having to ask for coffee on almost every summon, there are naps. Naps can keep a daeva going for quite a long time.
But there's something unutterably pleasant about curling up in a proper bed in pajamas and just sleeping. And then waking up and getting breakfast in those pajamas. So she does that, because immortality's a long unpleasant time if you don't enjoy the little things every now and then. Like adorable bunny slippers and soft pajamas and sleeping in.
She's midway through a fruity salad thing that counts as the standard fairy breakfast when she feels the summon. Showing up to a summon in pajamas? Eh. If they're proper summoners she bets they've seen worse, and she doesn't particularly care if they think she's unprofessional.
She puts her spoon down and accepts the summon.
Fairy Revan in the Wormverse
notinoz
He blinks many times very rapidly then touches an earpiece and says, "Alexandria, Eidolon, I think you will want to come here."
To Morgan: "Was the something else humanoid, with lots of wings and feathers, possibly carrying junk with it?"
notinoz
"Yes. I tried to hit it with the lizard and it dodged it like it knew I was going to do it. And then I ran, because I know when I am outmatched and I was very very outmatched." Pause. "Had a good try at killing the lizard, though, I think I was making progress."
The man takes a few seconds to get his bearings. "The fact that you managed to send it away—thank you for that, by the way, you've saved countless lives and probably this whole island. Its name is Leviathan, and its friend is the Simurgh, and I am very curious about how you speak English and don't know those names." Alexandria arrives. "Do you know how long you spent with the Simurgh's song in your head?"
"The Simurgh?" Alexandria arrives, then looks at Morgan. "Did you have anything to do with that?"
"Apparently this young lady moved Leviathan somewhere and the reason the Simurgh disappeared was to go after and rescue him."
notinoz
She smiles a little, at hearing that she helped.
"... Couldn't have been over five minutes?" she estimates honestly. "I left pretty quickly when I realized it was in my head."
What, no, she didn't notice that comment about how she speaks English and didn't know those names.
"Space," she clarifies, "I moved him to space. Pretty far out, but still in the solar system, though I can't really give specifics because space is enormous and I had exactly zero calculators with me to figure out where I was relative to anything else. I would have tried dumping him in a sun or a black hole or something if I hadn't been worried about losing Earth and getting lost, or ruining the resident sun with his water generation abilities."
"... Couldn't have been over five minutes?" she estimates honestly. "I left pretty quickly when I realized it was in my head."
What, no, she didn't notice that comment about how she speaks English and didn't know those names.
"Space," she clarifies, "I moved him to space. Pretty far out, but still in the solar system, though I can't really give specifics because space is enormous and I had exactly zero calculators with me to figure out where I was relative to anything else. I would have tried dumping him in a sun or a black hole or something if I hadn't been worried about losing Earth and getting lost, or ruining the resident sun with his water generation abilities."
Alexandria looks at the guy who has neglected to introduce himself. "The Simurgh was probably predicting something like this was going to happen."
"How fast can you fly and move things?" not-introduced-guy asks.
New person, in a hooded cloak with a flat metal mask illuminated in green—presumably Eidolon—arrives as well, and Alexandria catches him up.
notinoz
"I can't break lightspeed," she says. "Aside from that? Uh." She smiles a bit. "Do you have other monster problems that might be solved by a field trip to space?"
"Yes," the three of them say simultaneously, differing in tone. Eidolon's voice echoes eerily.
"Are you from another Earth?" asks Alexandria.
"Well, if you don't know about the Endbringers you're probably not from Bet nor Aleph, but we didn't know there were any more portals anywhere around."
"...I'm Legend, by the way," Legend introduces himself, realizing the probably doesn't know who he is if she doesn't know about Endbringers either. "How did you arrive here?"
notinoz
To tell the truth or to lie like a rug...
...
They seem to be heroic people that are trying to save the world. Let's tell most of the truth. Which means telling it somewhere that is not in front of everyone here.
"Um, can I explain this in a less public place? I mean, I will explain it, but."
...
They seem to be heroic people that are trying to save the world. Let's tell most of the truth. Which means telling it somewhere that is not in front of everyone here.
"Um, can I explain this in a less public place? I mean, I will explain it, but."
They are very familiar with talking about things in less public places.
Legend looks around. "I will oversee the remaining disaster relief efforts here, if you have damaged Leviathan enough that the Simurgh saw fit to go rescue him he's not likely to return."
"We can find a private place to talk about it and Legend will join us later," Alexandria says.
notinoz
"... I mean, I can also help with disaster relief efforts," she points out, "because I can move arbitrary matter that I can see with my mind. Explaining things can wait, if you don't mind?"
"How likely is it that other people like you will come here, or that people from here will go to where you're from?" Alexandria asks after both Legend and Eidolon look at her for a second.
notinoz
"I don't think it's at all possible that people from here can get to where I came from." Pause. "... But it might be possible that other people like me can get here, or, um. Be brought here."
Alexandria thinks about this, then looks at Legend, who says, "We will be very glad to have your help."
notinoz
"Okay. I don't know what your systems are like, so - I'm fine with playing minion. Tell me what to do."
Both Alexandria and Eidolon go off to do things, and Legend says, "Come with me, I'll get you a comm device and we'll be able to direct you places where you'll be useful."
notinoz
"Sure."
She gets a comm device, and is directed places. It turns out that one of the best places to put her is someplace high, with a view of everything, and then she can move whatever she's looking at. Then it's just telling her what to look at and do - she has very good finesse for someone that's far away and telekinetically messing with stuff, though if asked she says that she loses some finesse at this distance.
(But she has several hundred years of practice. That adds up.)
If this takes long enough she'll inform Legend that she doesn't need to sleep and can stay awake indefinitely if supplied with enough coffee.
She gets a comm device, and is directed places. It turns out that one of the best places to put her is someplace high, with a view of everything, and then she can move whatever she's looking at. Then it's just telling her what to look at and do - she has very good finesse for someone that's far away and telekinetically messing with stuff, though if asked she says that she loses some finesse at this distance.
(But she has several hundred years of practice. That adds up.)
If this takes long enough she'll inform Legend that she doesn't need to sleep and can stay awake indefinitely if supplied with enough coffee.
Not needing sleep is uncommon but not unheard of. Not needing sleep but needing coffee not to be affected by sleepiness is unheard of, but well within parahuman parameters of (ab)normality. And her help speeds the process up considerably and Legend asks her several times if she really is sure she doesn't need a break.
notinoz
She assures him that she doesn't, but she does keep supplied with coffee.
...
She does not take bathroom breaks.
...
She does not take bathroom breaks.
That is also not unheard of, but it is nonetheless somewhat stranger than needing coffee to stay awake.
People are helped! Eventually her help can be reasonably replaced by decentralized normal-human and—parahuman efforts without loss in efficiency.
There is! It turns out that being the leaders and founding members of the world's foremost parahuman organization gives people access to quite a lot of things. Who'd've thought?
They find a room that Eidolon declares to be impossible to spy on via means not immediately obvious to Morgan, but both Alexandria and Legend seem to believe him.
They find a room that Eidolon declares to be impossible to spy on via means not immediately obvious to Morgan, but both Alexandria and Legend seem to believe him.