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Jensal has a lot of work to do. Her house is going to collapse; nobody had better be inside when it does. She is briskly bundling adult miracles into groups who have at least one decent job between them, she is writing to agencies that handle adoption for the ultimate disposition of kids who don't get picked up because she's reasonably sure that they will not all get picked up, and when parents do drop by to collect their little ones she is signing papers for every set of them with slightly gritted teeth. Lots to do. Her hand is cramping from paperwork and she doesn't care.
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nonbird
"'None as larvae but a lot as adults' - does it increase measurably over time, or just appear one day?"
"Appears when they metamorphose," says the blue opal. "I mean, if it's the same for all of them, I only know the Blue Park fairies."
"That's right," says Kaylo.
"That's right," says Kaylo.
nonbird
"I think I might have to see someone acquiring CC in order to say anything definitive about how third-siahrs will have it," says Lazarus. "In particular, though, I wouldn't expect becoming a third-siahr to change one's CC. And I would not like to try altering someone's CC deliberately with miracle magic until I knew more about it."
"I can probably get you an invitation to a metamorphosis festival in Blue Park," says the blue opal, "but it won't be until spring."
nonbird
"I might or might not still be in this world then, but if I am then I would like to attend!" says Lazarus.
"You're going away?" asks Kimmet.
nonbird
"I am from a different world to begin with. I came here because I heard about shrens and wanted to help distribute miracles to them," Lazarus explains. "I did that, and then there kept being more things wrong with dragons and I kept having to fix them, so now I am helping Mial design better dragons."
"You're only doing dragon-themed things?" wonders Korulen.
nonbird
"I can do non-dragon-themed things too, and will if I hear about any that I can figure out how to solve! Why, are there other people going around with badly behaved magic?"
"I don't know, really, I mean, there are a few things that are inconvenient about wizardry," says Korulen.
"Channeling sting," says Kaylo. "Dying if you fuck it up. That sort of thing."
"Channeling sting," says Kaylo. "Dying if you fuck it up. That sort of thing."
nonbird
"...That sounds extremely inconvenient and I would definitely like to fix it!" says Lazarus. "After this meeting. Because this meeting is about third-siahrs and not any of the other things that we keep ending up talking about instead. Sorry, Mial."
shrennaki
"Thank you, Lazarus. Does anyone have any more third-siahr-related ideas they'd like to share?"
"Everything not mentioned on the list is just like standard-issue dragons?" asks the turquoise.
shrennaki
"In theory. But maybe we should be individually specifying those things in a little more detail," says Mial. "Miracles are pretty arbitrary but it matters how well you design them. What isn't on the list that's worth thinking about?"
"You didn't put the sirasiahr part on the list," says Jensal.
"The what part?" says Korulen.
"The what part?" says Korulen.
shrennaki
...Mial looks at the list. He puts an item on the top of the list. The item is: Third-siahrs speak Reform Draconic.
"Thank you, helpful turquoise lady," he says. "Sirasiahr - 'Reform Draconic', in Leraal - is a language Lazarus helped me invent. It's like Draconic if Draconic wasn't opinionated about shrens. It has a few extra words as a result, one of them being 'siahr', the category of dragons-and-shrens. These better dragons that I want to invent are being called third-siahrs for now because they don't yet exist and therefore have no proper word of their own, but they're going to be a third kind of siahr."
"Thank you, helpful turquoise lady," he says. "Sirasiahr - 'Reform Draconic', in Leraal - is a language Lazarus helped me invent. It's like Draconic if Draconic wasn't opinionated about shrens. It has a few extra words as a result, one of them being 'siahr', the category of dragons-and-shrens. These better dragons that I want to invent are being called third-siahrs for now because they don't yet exist and therefore have no proper word of their own, but they're going to be a third kind of siahr."
"I was told that Reform Draconic was optional. You do not plan to keep it optional?" asks the emerald man.
shrennaki
"It's going to be the third-siahr default, like Draconic is currently the siahr default," says Mial. "Lazarus? If I don't explicitly make them able to, will third-siahrs be able to switch to Draconic if they want?"
nonbird
"No. But they'll speak it, the same way everyone who speaks Draconic also speaks Reform Draconic, because both of those languages have the 'speak all other languages' property," says Lazarus.
shrennaki
"Thank you, Lazarus. Okay. So third-siahrs will not automatically be able to switch their primary language to Draconic," says Mial. "Does anyone have a good reason why I should change that?"
"Draconic is standard," says the violet representative. "Reform Draconic's not very different now but it could veer off and do anything and it doesn't have thousands of years of being a thing to make the way in which it might do that expectable."
shrennaki
"I acknowledge that that is a reason. I don't find it especially convincing," says Mial.
"It seems pushy," says Kimmet uncomfortably.
shrennaki
"...Go on," says Mial. Anyone in the room who is well acquainted with his father or grandfather might find his tone of voice familiar. It is an 'I am making a great effort to listen calmly and politely to what you have to say despite the fact that I strongly suspect I am not going to like it' tone of voice.
"I - I mean I only have the description of the whole - thing - I think fourth or fifth-hand?" says Kimmet. She looks at the color reps who've attended the meeting.
The violet representative graciously takes the topic from her. "There are a lot of things bundled in this package, and not everyone who would want to benefit from most of them is going to either already agree with the... politics attached to your language, or have so much as a chance to impress you personally with a well-described reason for their personal feelings that will suit your gatekeeping inclinations. Unless you are planning to even make it available to only a handful of people in your personal circle the first place, which I think would be the sort of thing you'd have wanted to mention when calling the meeting to start or inviting Keo's daughter to sit in as a prospective recipient."
(Meanwhile, Aurin's not talking, but he's chewing his lip and looking at his shoes.)
The violet representative graciously takes the topic from her. "There are a lot of things bundled in this package, and not everyone who would want to benefit from most of them is going to either already agree with the... politics attached to your language, or have so much as a chance to impress you personally with a well-described reason for their personal feelings that will suit your gatekeeping inclinations. Unless you are planning to even make it available to only a handful of people in your personal circle the first place, which I think would be the sort of thing you'd have wanted to mention when calling the meeting to start or inviting Keo's daughter to sit in as a prospective recipient."
(Meanwhile, Aurin's not talking, but he's chewing his lip and looking at his shoes.)