The wilderness here adjoins a road, with a bus trundling one way or the other every five minutes, and a moped or truck less often than that. White chevrons indicate which way each lane of traffic is to go; there's a sidewalk, with a railing, but it doesn't look like it sees much use.
Lornell positively wiggles. "Maybe if I get really really rich I can pay people to breed them smarter if they aren't people already - wings - "
"Not as effectively as I would if my entire society were here but eventually I think! Or just take the wings - I'm not sure I'd be able to get them big enough to fly by myself but it's still very cool and I'd be awfully motivated - "
"How would you get them bigger than the crow you took them from? That doesn't seem like copying?"
"Maybe if it was a baby crow I could get them to grow . . . humans aren't people until older but maybe - something to do with eggs?? I'm operating on wishful thinking a bit."
"Huh. Well, probably one of the neighbors has a crow, I've seen a couple going in and out of windows."
"I would love to meet your neighbors' crows. - Hm, I know sometimes copying arms or something scales them to you instead of exactly the same as the other person - I wonder if I'd have to replace my arms with them or if I could get six limbs. And if I could then turn those to arms, just have an extra set . . ."
"It'd be really cool, everyone'll be jealous of you anyway but that'd really be the sauce on the steak there if also you could have wings."
Bounce bounce bounce bounce. "I bet a lot of people would want to see flying acrobatics; I'd have to learn everything myself but I can probably manage that. - Is there a reason I should in fact be aiming for a larger show all by myself instead of just joining an existing one in a smaller chunk like you said is normal? Obviously it would make less money but maybe it would be worth it anyways."
"It might make sense for you to join a normal circus! I don't know much about how they work on the back end."
"Me either! Mostly I would like to be able to stop circusing quickly if I find something that's very obviously much more useful. I don't know whether that would be harder with a group, because I was making a commitment to other people, or by myself because there wouldn't be anything left of it without me."
"Yeah, I don't know either. You can borrow my old laptop if you want? And look for... circus... websites?"