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They appear in midair, visible out of a few thirtieth-floor apartments.
One starts to fall. The other catches her by the arm, flings out - wing-shapes of light - and slows her, spiraling down until they're at street level.
maurabel and penumbra go on an adventure
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She's a student in a mage school and does simple magic to earn her keep, mostly stuff with glass because she's good at glass. The school's principal purpose is discovering new magic, and she discovered that they could travel that way, so they did. They wanted to go somewhere inhabited and weren't sure what else to specify. She is really impressed with running water and television. She will want to go home eventually but mostly just because her parents live there, not because it was nice or anything. She doesn't have a specific itinerary.
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They don't have the same need to expand that Amentans seem to. Like, there are hungry people, but she tentatively suspects this is because they are bad at farming.
Oh, yeah, if they still have lots of space on their planet and anticipate they'll get to others eventually then they're all set.
The artists chatter about art and aliens and aliens in springtime and Afen translates and eventually suggests they go get dinner somewhere.
Does her world have restaurants? Restaurants are places where you go and look at a big list of food and pick something and they make it for you.
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Uh, inns sometimes serve food but there's usually not a list, you just get what they have!
They can go to a restaurant, then! There's one on the fourth story of the skyscraper across the street, tables lined up for a view of the university campus. Afen tries to translate everything on the menu, with limited success.
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She's still not picky or allergic! She picks a platter with some of lots of things.
"It's really interesting the things you appreciate - I have no idea when deep frying was invented -"
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"I think it probably would take more oil than we usually get all in one place except for trading."
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It is delicious. "I would not have guessed that one of the most impressive things about a society with so much more stuff would be the food but apparently food gets way better!"