Let's Do The Space Warp Again

[iamnotpolaris]

'Guided random' selected, parameters recalibrated, universe selection initiated.
What's on the other side now?

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[pythbox]

'Probably the dragon was easier for me to understand. I don't know what sort of person could have missed the last two thousand years of history sitting on a remote island Bonded to a dragon, and, well, you've seen what the Wild Magic is like when it's talking about things I do know about.'

[whatamithinking]

'Fair.
...I apologize if this is racist, but the only other unicorn whose name I've encountered since entering this universe was named Tialle. Do you know anything about her?'

[pythbox]

He looks puzzled for a second and then yelps in startlement, which causes the dragon to raise her head and look around warily.

'Are you telling me Tialle's Demon has been sitting on this island for thousands of years with a Dragonbond?! How would that even work? Endarkened don't Dragonbond! And the Wild Magic just got finished reminding me they are all dead!'

[whatamithinking]

'The impression I got was that they were destroyed based on evilness, not biological species.'

[pythbox]

'I guess if there was going to be any Endarkened who wasn't Dark, Tialle's Demon would make the most sense... but he was burned by her horn, that's a pretty crucial part of that story, and I don't think you can be burned by a unicorn's horn and not be Dark, that's sort of how that works... but even then he wasn't exactly acting all that Dark... I'm very confused,' the unicorn concludes.

[whatamithinking]

'The first thing I (saw) when I (looked) at his mind was that it was beautiful. And he wasn't lying when he said he didn't want to hurt anyone.'

[pythbox]

'Well, then I guess Tialle's Demon has been sitting on this island for thousands of years with a Dragonbond. And isn't Dark. Somehow. And the Wild Magic wants me to tell him that... all the other Endarkened are dead, I guess, and that one Dragon can have two Bondmates now? Which is really useful for all the other dragons but probably not all that useful for this one because Endarkened are even more immortal than dragons in the first place so his dragon won't have to worry about him dying of old age.'

The dragon currently present on this beach makes a remark. Liselen answers. The dragon snorts with laughter.

[whatamithinking]

'He said he was interested in meeting you, if you weren't intent on killing him.'

[pythbox]

'The Wild Magic sent me all this way to politely ask him to please not leave the universe without telling it where to forward the mail. I'm not going to kill him.'

[whatamithinking]

'Would you like to meet him, is what I was intending to ask.'

[pythbox]

'Well, I still have a message for him from the Wild Magic, so, yes.'

[whatamithinking]

She sends to the Endarkened: 'It was a dragon carrying a unicorn. Apparently you're to know the other Endarkened are all dead, it's possible for a dragon to bond to more than one person, and to please not leave the universe without leaving some way for the Wild Magic to contact you. Also, I name-dropped Tialle. Apparently you live on in unicorn lore as 'Tialle's Demon'."

[endragoned]

'Tialle's Demon is not such a bad thing to be,' he muses. 'Am I so needed in this world that a unicorn must be flown to my island to ask me not to leave it? For what, I wonder?'

[whatamithinking]

'I don't know, but he says he still has a message for you from the Wild Magic. Perhaps it is merely that he doesn't expect me to be as faithful a conduit as a unicorn and he will simply repeat what he showed me, but then perhaps not.'
To Liselen: 'I don't know if you've explained that there is a non-evil Endarkened on this island, but if you haven't, perhaps we should leave the dragon here.'

[pythbox]

Liselen sighs. He says something out loud.

The dragon snorts.

He says something else, indignantly.

The dragon replies in an amused rumble.

'Saravasse probably believes me about the non-Dark Endarkened, and anyway she wants to talk to his Bonded about dragon repopulation efforts.'

[whatamithinking]

'Do you mind if I download your language? It doesn't touch anything else in your mind and it would make talking easier.'

[pythbox]

'Well, okay then, sure.'

[whatamithinking]

"Okay, I got it," she says in his language a moment later.
'So it's all right if I bring them to the clearing where you and Sivath are?' she checks with Tialle's Demon.

[pythbox]

"She speaks at last," the red dragon says dryly.

"She was talking to me this whole time!"

"I picked up on that, yes."

[endragoned]

'Yes.'

[whatamithinking]

"I didn't speak your language before a moment ago. If you would rather I spoke apparent-gibberish to go along with the mental conversation I suppose I could have obliged. Tialle's Demon is this way," she says, turning to lead them towards the clearing.

[iamnotpolaris]

Emily, who also received a copy of the language, follows her sister and says, "To be fair, I wasn't talking at all."

[pythbox]

"Yes, hello," says Saravasse. "I don't suppose any of you have names? I am Saravasse, and the unicorn is Liselen."

Liselen wobbles his way to a standing position and trudges determinedly after Emily and Edie.

[whatamithinking]

"Oh, my name's Edie, and this is my sister Emily."

[iamnotpolaris]

Emily waves a little when Edie introduces her.