The Candy Man Can

[whatamithinking]

'Hey, Emily, it's safe to take your imaginary fingers out of your mental ears.'

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[iamnotpolaris]

Emily, who still has their bag, pulls out a few beads. And then looks at the dragon. "I don't think you can reliably hold onto these. Hang on a tick." She separates out a bar of Terrarian iron, sets it as a block, and uses some of it to make a bracelet for the dragon with the beads set into it. She hands it over. The beads are a bright green color.

[pythbox]

"Pretty," says the dragon, admiring his new bracelet.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Thanks. I've had a lot of practice," she says.

To Terraria!

[not_only]

To Terraria!

The three travelers who have already been to Terraria step through the wormhole portal with no trouble at all and arrive right where they meant to.

[endragoned]

The demon and dragon, on the other hand, are inexplicably diverted each to an island of their own.

[iamnotpolaris]

Yeah, that was predictable.

Emily starts paging through her armband's directory for the beads on the dragon's bracelet.

[endragoned]

The demon's and dragon's non-people are talking to them.

The dragon's says: "Greetings," and pauses for a moment and looks confused, and then continues, "Is there something I can help you with?"

They both find this hilarious.

[whatamithinking]

Edie, who had been so distressed when her flesh statue knew her name, is also significantly amused.

[iamnotpolaris]

Okay, there are the beads.

Portals!

[endragoned]

Demon! Dragon!

[not_only]

"...If everyone's going to be staying on Emily's island, we're going to need a much bigger house," remarks Sivath.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Is there any reason for everyone not to stay on my island? Besides the house thing."

[not_only]

"I can't think of any. And I'd be happy to make a bigger house." He considers the size of the dragon. "We might have to get clever with the doors, though. Normal doors are all exactly the same size and it is not a dragon size."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Is the size of a door a feature of Terraria in general? I suppose it would be, for the actual doors if not the doorways..."

[not_only]

"Doors are a thing you can make, and they're all one size, but the normal size is too short for me so I figured out how to make some that were taller," he says. "I don't even begin to know how I'd make a dragon-sized door, though."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Maybe I could do something with metals."

[not_only]

"No, I know how I'll do it, it's just not going to be a door exactly," he says.

[endragoned]

"What will it be instead?"

[not_only]

"A part of the wall you can vanish and un-vanish using switches."

[whatamithinking]

"Terraria," Edie says dryly.

[iamnotpolaris]

"...Man, I wonder what would have happened if the dragon--if any dragon--came here randomly on their own."

[endragoned]

"Dragons don't need to sleep nearly as often as you little creatures," says the dragon. "I would have time to think of clever solutions." The demon grins and hugs his dragon around the neck.

[whatamithinking]

Edie is going to participate in hugs, because why not.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Do you have the things you wanted with you, or are we flying through the fog again?" Emily asks Sivath.

[not_only]

"Let me think... does anyone want me to draw out the house before I build it, so you can see what it'll be like? Does anyone have requests?"