I Like Long Walks On The Beach

[iamnotpolaris]

The beach is a nice, convenient, out-of-earshot place to calibrate the coordinates for this universe.

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[pythbox]

He shrugs. "We certainly have now."

[whatamithinking]

"True enough!"
She ties the armband to Saravasse's wrist. "Seems like a bit of a shame I don't know macrame. Oh, that's a system of knot tying that people sometimes use to make bracelets out of string."

[pythbox]

"I think I will be just fine without a pretty bracelet," says Saravasse, amused.

[whatamithinking]

"Mh-hm."

"Okay, so I should probably--write down how to use it, and then tape it to the underside or something. If I tell you how to operate it can you remember it well enough to tell someone with correctly-sized digits later?"

[pythbox]

"I'll do my best," she says.

[whatamithinking]

She describes the operation of the device to create a wormhole to one of the other armbands. "And you'll want ARWRM1 or ARWRM2, otherwise you'll just get either yourself or the inside of my bag."

[pythbox]

Snort. "Which would hardly do anyone any good, yes."

[whatamithinking]

"Exactly."

"...Come to think of it we should probably be giving armbands to Sivath and Tialle's Demon. We've been traveling by ourselves long enough I suppose the idea never occurred to us."

[endragoned]

"It seems a useful thing to have," says Tialle's Demon agreeably.

[whatamithinking]

"We don't have a huge number of spares, and we prefer to have a few on hand for in case anything happens to the ones we're wearing...I guess we'll have to go back to the world we got them from and get some more."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Oh, my sister's reminding me that we forgot to give you an armband," Emily tells Sivath a little sheepishly.

[not_only]

Sivath shrugs and smiles.

[endragoned]

"It will not be difficult to return there, I hope?"

[whatamithinking]

"Oh, no, we've got markers in every universe we've visited, just in case. That's what the strings of seemingly-random numbers and letters represent. Those are cheap and easy, it's the wormhole generation that takes up most of the armband. The reason we're having a hard time getting home is that we haven't been there since we got the armbands in the first place."

[endragoned]

He nods understanding.

[whatamithinking]

"So we'll make a quick stop in sooner rather than later, but meanwhile we do have spares." She rummages in her bag for another one. "I guess ARWRM 4 and 5 will also work, then," she tells Saravasse.

[pythbox]

"And which one will you give to Tialle's Demon?"

[whatamithinking]

She checks the one she's just pulled out of the bag. "This one's five. So five."

[pythbox]

Snort. "I'll remember that."

[whatamithinking]

"We'll try to let you know if any of them get broken but if you try and get an error message that's probably why."

[pythbox]

Saravasse nods.

[whatamithinking]

Something occurs to her.

She looks between the dragons.

"So, how exactly does the unicorn virgin thing work, is he going to be uncomfortable for reasons besides airsickness on the way back? Or is that an intrusive question."

[pythbox]

"Thankfully, dragons don't count," says Saravasse.

[whatamithinking]

"That sounds both convenient and arbitrary," she agrees.

[pythbox]

Saravasse shrugs.