[Eeeeh, I think by now I should be able to oneshot a dire boar more often than not. And I can always follow up with a second Fireball if needed. A normal boar could theoretically survive the first Fireball. Theoretically. I'm not familiar with lionfish, are they what they sound like? About as big as a person and with a vicious bite? I'd be at a disadvantage because of the water, I'd probably need to hit it with lightning from outside it.]

[They're pretty small but they've got poison spines. The reason to kill them is significantly to protect adjacent wildlife so you'd need to be conservative with the lightning and fire, though.]

[Oh, poison is fine, I can heal it. It does trade off against the blindness and deafness though. And if collateral damage is a problem that sharply limits my options. Holding it would probably work...]

[This is probably not a particularly fruitful tangent though.]

[Indeed.] [Oh, I can see Brian getting out of the house, talk to you later!]

Brian hands him a pile of sticky notes! They have various colors of marker on the corners, to compensate for Reed not being able to read them so Isabella will be able to tell him to show someone the green one or the pink one or whatever.

Oh, smart! He takes some time to inspect the unusually small pieces of paper, particularly curious about the glue that for some reason seems to be only applied to one edge? It's kind of a shitty glue, it's not really holding them firmly... it does make it easier to detach one though... ok, maybe it has a point. Weird though.

And Brian can get him without much of import, beyond the new excitingness of the whole world and everything in it, to the airport.

[I'm at the "security" queue. You have such colorful luggage, and I must say putting it on wheels is truly ingenious, with the incredibly flat floors you have it seems to work really well. What are they looking for? I see some people get checked and some not.]

[They're making sure nobody boards the plane armed, or with anything that resembles anything that in the past has caused enough of a stir. You might get checked more closely just because you probably look confused, I'm not sure.]

[Good thing I don't have my crossbow with me, my actual weapons are not really visible to the uninitiated]

[Yeah. If they do take anything from you, show them the blue note, but don't put up any kind of fuss, okay?]

[Yes Ma'am.]

He'll imitate what people in front of him are doing, putting his backpack on one of the gray trays of unfamiliar material, then walking towards the metal arch.

It beeps. He should not proceed, that much is clear via body language.

Sure, no problem, he's seen the others getting checked, he can get checked and be chill about it! He smiles reassuringly at the person in uniform in front of him.

Does he have a - yeah, that's a knife? He can't have a knife? What is he trying to pull here??

That's his food knife, yes, what's the matter?

They seem to be Very Unhappy about it for some reason?

He'll show them the blue note, and hope for the best.

One of them reads the blue note. They sigh. They pat him down more thoroughly. They take all his other metal objects and do not give them back and motion him through the detector again.

Heeee's going to want them back later. At the very least the headband and rods, the knife has some sentimental value but in the end it's just a bread knife. He goes through the metal arch again. No sound, hopefully? They seemed unhappy about the sound specifically.

No sound this time! He can proceed without his objects!

[They took my headband! They can keep my breadknife but my headband is expensive!]

[...I would be likelier to convince people of that if you didn't have a knife! Why did you have a knife??]

[To cut things! What do you people use to cut things???]

[Knives, but it doesn't come up so often that we carry them around all the time. Find a place to sit within sight of the security checkpoint on whichever side they put you, I'll talk to some people.]

He doesn't see a good place to sit, but he will awkwardly stand out of the way in a corner which is easily visible by the security checkpoint people.

What do you mean "it doesn't come up so often"??? Don't these people like, eat? He guesses they could mostly eat at home or in inns but still, who doesn't carry at least a knife with him? It's useful for so many things!