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.

Comments

[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.

[whatamithinking]

"Of course, lots of things are arbitrary. And it really does sound very convenient."

[pythbox]

"If you want to talk about convenience, consider how fortunate it is that unicorns don't count," Saravasse says dryly.

[whatamithinking]

...

...

"That hadn't even occurred to me but now I'm imagining the alternative. Yes, indeed, fortunate."

[pythbox]

Saravasse chuckles.

[whatamithinking]

"I mean, exactly how fortunate depends on how bad the aversion is, I suppose. Scenarios in my head are ranging from 'significantly awkward' to 'total extinction of the species within a handful of generations.'"

[pythbox]

"Let's be glad we don't have to find out which of those it is," says Saravasse.

[whatamithinking]

"Agreed."