The same isn't true about the wind.

[mage_see_mage_do]

Witches aren't troubled by the cold, but the same isn't true about the wind.
Temperance wasn't afraid of falling from her brand new cloudpine branch, but she might drop her books and that was nearly as bad. She decided to land until the weather quieted down.
Instead of quieting it down, the weather got worse, snow started falling and it was hard to navigate even with Faramund covering her with his wings.
Temperance didn't hear anything, just saw a glimpse of the thing, just enough for her brain to register the combination of snake and mirror and...
...then she found herself under warm sunlight, feeling a gentle breeze over her skin. Blinking away the sudden light and the melting snow in her eyes, she found herself surrounded by a green woodland that was too warm to be anywhere near she remembered being.
In short, Temperance and her daemon were very confused.

Comments

[maggie_of_the_owls]

No one is likely to notice she's avoiding that particular subject. Everything else she's mentioned is something you're born with, so it's not an obvious omission.

[mage_see_mage_do]

Breakfast is had. Temperance mentally pings Edie 'finished breakfast'

[whatamithinking]

nervousexcitement 'My parents aren't finished quite yet. Once they are Mama has some class notes to look over, so Papa will be alone. I'll tell him then. I don't know how long it will take him to have an answer, but I'll let you know when I've told him.'

[mage_see_mage_do]

'Sure thing, either of you can ask me anything about the details,' Temperance says 'going to start some ground work on the project.'

[iamnotpolaris]

'Assuming he says yes, how long is this likely to take? Is there some way it's likely to go horribly wrong if it's interrupted in the middle?' Emily asks through Edie-relay. When she does this, Temperance can feel Emily's mind at the edge of her own as well as Edie's. The two are completely distinct--there would be no mistaking one for the other.

[mage_see_mage_do]

'I was going to test on an animal before trying on a human' Temperance communicates 'and even so for something like this writing a lot of redundant safeties goes without saying. If it's interrupted in the middle the effect can be chaotic, but the safeties I mentioned will make the failure less dramatic and less harmful, in particularly I will focus on making in any failure to be not permanent. All that said it will be essential to avoid any disruption during the process.'

[iamnotpolaris]

'I'm not sure how relevant animal testing would be? Even if we broke the same vertebrae in an animal it wouldn't have the years of scar tissue build up. And yeah, I imagined avoiding disruption would be important, but there's a scale from 'make sure everyone knows to keep an eye out for trouble' to 'hide both of you in a bunker in an undisclosed location and pay Aunt Raven to pretend to be him for the duration'.'

[mage_see_mage_do]

'The wound doesn't need to be so specific' she sends the notion that such spell would be harder to make 'I can scry an suitable animal that and heal it just to be sure. I wasn't thinking on creating an temporary replacement, just working on the assumption that you didn't grew up with witches. That all said, I am glad that you are this open about the entire thing. Witch and human relations haven't been great in my world but it is jarring the opportunities that mortals miss.'

[iamnotpolaris]

'Well, you have awesome healing magic. Also...mutant and human relations...have been better than they could be, but there's still some amount of us vs. them, and we--mostly Edie--have kind of been presenting you as More Like Us Than Them. Ah, I don't know if you remember that look from yesterday in the study but Mama was basically saying 'Edie are you sure we can trust her she's not a mutant' and Edie was saying 'She's not human either and she's been very helpful and has shown zero problem with either of us'. Sort of emphasis on 'not human either.' Mama...is kind of on the separatist end of the spectrum. Not that Mama would have any problem with a human who could heal Papa. She's practical like that. It's less that she hates humans and more that they have a higher bar to reach in in her mind and she doesn't really get along with strangers by default.
The fact that mutants are just as different from each other as any of us are from baseline humanity is helping a lot of the students accept you, I think. They know in their heads that you aren't just another new mutant but it's not really penetrating.'

[mage_see_mage_do]

'I don't know how to take that. I see myself more apart from baseline humans than mutants are, purely because of culture if nothing else. I don't really understand why the desire for separatism... I understand your mother has her issues, but life would be so much more fun if there wasn't this pre-made barrier between me and all my potential human friends.' Temperance pushes the memory of when she dressed herself as a regular human and was shocked with the difference it made.

[iamnotpolaris]

'Yeaaah, mostly it's Mama having issues. They mostly don't get in the way of real life and, well, all things considered it would be surprising if she didn't have issues. I mean yeah the look happened but nothing came of it and nothing was going to come of it.' Mental shrug. 'She's really great at being a Mama, anyway. Yeah, the whole millenia of culture thing is a pretty big difference, plus there's plenty of mutants who have two human parents so probably we'd never really be separate no matter what. You have a sister?' she noted from the pushed memory.

[mage_see_mage_do]

'alarmfearshamedeepsadnesss!!!!!' is the only response that the sisters get.

'I am sorry, I shouldn't...' Temperance sends after a minute 'please don't pry about my half-sister... or my family, it won't be that much big of a issue here, but I usually prefer not to think about it.'

[iamnotpolaris]

guilt "Sorry! Edie has more practice not prying than I do, I shouldn't have mentioned it."

[mage_see_mage_do]

'It is okay... just don't mention it.'

after another quiet moment.

'I am going to fly a bit, you can message me if you need to talk.'

[iamnotpolaris]

'Yeah, okay.'

[whatamithinking]

A few minutes later:
'I told him. He seems to be in a mild state of shock.'

[mage_see_mage_do]

'Shock? Didn't expect that but that is a valid way to react, does he have any questions?'

[whatamithinking]

'Not really. I'll let you know if there's anything like that or when he makes up his mind.'

[mage_see_mage_do]

'Let me know when he does' Temperance sends.

She flies around aimlessly, accompanied by Faramund, without a destination. It occurred to her that she will need to find a way around the lack of cloudpines in this world, but that can be left to later.

[whatamithinking]

It's a couple of hours later when Edie sends 'He said yes.' Pause. 'Mama looks like someone just punched her in the solar plexus. I think I'm going to have to run interference to keep her from treating you like she sometimes does Hank. How long is this likely to take?'

[mage_see_mage_do]

'Great that he said yes! How she sometimes treats Hank? Should I find a secluded cabin and work this project there?'

Temperance thinks about it.

'The spell creation might take anywhere between two weeks and five weeks, I think, there is some more work before I can give you something more exact and actually casting the spell might take a bit more because I might incorporate the moon phase to the spell.'

[whatamithinking]

'That shouldn't be necessary. Sometimes when Hank is working on a project Mama gets on his case about having it done sooner rather than later. Mama might need a few reminders about why it would be a bad idea to do that with you, is all.'
pause
'Also I think Hank might want to take readings and other Hank stuff.'

[mage_see_mage_do]

'I am not sure how annoying or distracting your mom will be, but I am pro no one getting on my case. Hank can take his readings as long it doesn't involve something like... putting a needle on your dad during the process. Well, if he is going to like... put those cables to measure things, the cables might disrupt the runes and that would be bad, but it is possible to work around that with enough preparation.'

[whatamithinking]

'He might possibly want to try to put cables on you, while you're doing lower-stakes casting, to see if he can measure magic or something. I'm not sure, I'm not Hank.'

[mage_see_mage_do]

'As long the testing isn't too intrusive. I think they did this kind of test back in my world and since I don't remember anything interesting out of them, Hank might be disappointed with the results.'