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sturdycoldsteel ([personal profile] sturdycoldsteel) wrote in [community profile] glowfic2015-09-16 11:22 pm

random pointless swirls

The shaper known as Steel is flying down the right side of a road, shoring up the edges of the bluestream that lets her lift herself off the ground as she goes. Sure, she'll be a bit clumsy and weak when she gets to Opri, but she's not planning on doing much more stream-shaping today, so might as well.

She glances at the bluestream (the magical vision blinds her physical vision for a short moment, but not long enough to crash into anything) and determines that this next crossroads is where she needs to turn. She tilts to the right...

...And lands on a patch of orange grass in a forest clearing. This is not the town of Opri. She opens her eyes and ears to the bluestream, trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

The bluestream here isn't a nice, orderly, useful pattern like on the roads, or the formless fog that it usually decays to after a while. Instead it's a riot of random patterns swirling around, wispy and confused and obviously not designed to do anything useful.

Steel, deaf and blind for a few seconds thanks to her peek at the bluestream, stands very still and is very confused.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2015-09-19 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
River is not in her house, but she's close by, picking flowers.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2015-09-19 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
River looks up from her flower picking. "Oh - uh, no harm done," she blinks. "Are you going to tell me what's going on with you today?"
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2015-09-19 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
"You can see harmonics?" says River, eyes wide.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2015-09-19 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, I'm not a sorcerer. I'm just surprised Promise didn't catch you to keep or sell."
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2015-09-19 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
"You'd be really useful to a sorcerer, though. And she wouldn't have to worry about you trying to feed her."
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2015-09-19 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Food from vassals is safe," says River, waving a hand. "If she had your name or fed you she could eat straight out of your hand and be fine."
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2015-09-19 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know what's going through her head," snorts River.
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[personal profile] imeanforever 2015-09-19 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
"If I fed you, then you couldn't envassal me with food but my name would still work. If I knew your name, then if I also fed you it would mean that you'd still be my vassal if I forgot your name but wouldn't otherwise do anything, and if you fed me it wouldn't envassal me."
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[personal profile] imeanforever 2015-09-19 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"I barely know River and don't like her to the extent I know her, and this isn't going to come up in the first place."
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[personal profile] imeanforever 2015-09-19 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Not necessarily. You're very tall for a fairy and I'm not sure off the top of my head of a kind you could pass for, even with specially-made wings, so you might not look like a mortal but you'd still look interesting."
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[personal profile] imeanforever 2015-09-19 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
"I mean, yes, but you'd still be interesting."
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[personal profile] imeanforever 2015-09-19 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Mm - it means that people won't try to feed you. Well, most of them, it depends. Leaflets like me have a decent shot at vassaling another fairy with food because of how strong the claims on our tree are. But while that would be less likely you'd also look more useful. As a mortal you're a temporary curiosity until you do magic and look really interesting; as a weird foreign fairy you're potentially very valuable and could be kept permanently."

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