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There's something unutterably pleasant about landing in a bit of woods in the middle of Nowhere, Manitoba, removing a sandwich and an apple from her backpack and having a picnic before she's ready to move on. She could eat in midair, but it makes it too likely that she'll drop something and find it unrecoverable.
Path's on her knee, and her cloudpine is propped up against the tree next to her.
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dark_light
"Well, far be it from me to stop you if it ever floats to the top of your priorities list."
prodigal_miser
"Aw, thanks. Above that on the list is showing you some scryings of things in space, though. You wouldn't actually be able to see anything happen quickly, but some of it's very pretty."
dark_light
"Remind me when we are showing you things in the library to get you some pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers can handle pretty despite their handicaps. In fact, even on my slow phone connection..."
Isabella looks up a picture of the earth from space, waits for it to load, and shows it to him.
Isabella looks up a picture of the earth from space, waits for it to load, and shows it to him.
prodigal_miser
He is shown! He looks amused. "Pretty. Alright, fine, pocket library wins this round. This round."
dark_light
"The sky is actually full of lots of artificial satellites doing all kinds of things."
prodigal_miser
"Shhhh, Isabella, let me think I can win. Otherwise I'll pout."
prodigal_miser
Adarin laughs. "Possibly, but it could also just be sad, or pathetic. Or both. Do you want to try those odds?"
dark_light
"Gosh, that would be a disaster even if it was adorable, then, you'd be in a permanent state of pout, I won't risk it."
prodigal_miser
"Good, I'm glad to see you have an appropriate reaction to potential disasters brought about by pouting."
prodigal_miser
"So I have seen! Keep up the good work, the planes need some more sanity and general good sense."
prodigal_miser
He grins back. "Likewise. Goddesses? I didn't know you were religious."
It doesn't bother him in the slightest, he's just curious.
It doesn't bother him in the slightest, he's just curious.
dark_light
"I'm not very, but there's a pantheon of witch goddesses, useful to pay attention to for invoking their names for magical purposes."
prodigal_miser
"Ooo. They help? That's something I've never heard of before."
dark_light
"Yeah, of course they help, if they weren't good for anything I assure you I would ignore them. Not all spells use them, but plenty do. If you change a goddess's name in a verse spell you get a different result."
prodigal_miser
Now Adarin is fascinated. Literal goddesses? Helpful literal goddesses? Interesting. He's not going to jump on board the goddesses train just yet, but this is still useful information. Besides, why would he disrespect her beliefs?
"That," he says, "Is both interesting and useful. What kinds of spells invoke their names? What sorts of effects does changing them have?"
"That," he says, "Is both interesting and useful. What kinds of spells invoke their names? What sorts of effects does changing them have?"
dark_light
"A whole bunch, and it depends - I mean, sometimes it won't work, if you cast a death spell you need Yambe Akka and nobody else will fit in the surrounding verse. But if I were illuminating an area I'd get different kinds of light if I replaced Segaard Oskei with Amariah Lytess."
prodigal_miser
"I think sometime in the future I'd love a demonstration, if you don't mind. I'm curious, now."
He connects the names. "Your second name was chosen after a goddess?"
He connects the names. "Your second name was chosen after a goddess?"
dark_light
"Yeah, that's not uncommon. The goddesses manifestly do not care. My name goddess and my blessing goddess aren't even the same one. I'll light something up for you when it gets dark, how about?"
prodigal_miser
Happy grin. "That would be fantastic, thank you. I might have to also sit down and just ask about all of the goddesses, out of sheer curiosity."