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]

"...I don't know but I feel like I might find the answer disturbing either way."

[not_only]

He smiles, and opens up another storage chest to pack some more materials.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Need any help?"

[not_only]

"It would probably take longer to explain where everything is and what to get than for me to just get it myself... I might need some help carrying it all, though. I've never had to move this many stacks at once before." The bag he's been putting everything in is indeed looking a little full.

[iamnotpolaris]

"I can carry stuff. I can carry all of the stuff if I carry it with metal and magnetism."

[not_only]

"I don't think I'm going to need more than two bags... here's this one, anyway." He closes it and hands it to her. It's pretty heavy, but not outrageous.

[iamnotpolaris]

Edie has stronger legs, but Emily has better upper body strength. She doesn't have too much trouble with it.

[not_only]

Sivath smiles, and starts filling a second bag with architectural supplies and several stacks of shiny little stars.

[iamnotpolaris]

All pretty things.

[not_only]

He also rummages in a few storage chests full of miniature weapons and packs some of those, including a tiny golden harp and a thing that looks very much like it might be the Bee Gun.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Ooh, is that what I think it is?"

[not_only]

"That depends," says Sivath. "What do you think it is?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Is it the gun that shoots exploding bees."

[not_only]

"It is the gun that shoots exploding bees."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yay!"

[not_only]

"And there, I think that's everything for now," he says, adding a handful of stacks of dark wood into the second bag.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Alright then." More flying! Temporary disruption of telepathy by clouds.

[not_only]

Return to the house. Distribution of bag contents into storage chests.

Then Sivath takes his architectural drawings and his mining tools and goes to flatten out a foundation for the house.

[iamnotpolaris]

"...Which bag had the candy stuff in it?"

[not_only]

"Oh - here," he says, retrieving a stack of shiny stars. It is soon replaced by a stack of small blue candies, which he hands to her; the stack object refers to itself as 33 Mana Crystals. "Ten candies per person will give you all the mana you can get."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Okay, thanks." She separates out a candy and munches on it. It is fizzy and minty, and she is abruptly aware, in that way Terraria has, that she has twenty mana. "...I didn't know you could carbonate candy. Maybe you can't outside Terraria. It's interesting, anyway." And she wanders over to the others to give them mana candy.

[whatamithinking]

Edie accepts her ten.

[endragoned]

Tialle's Demon will let Edie hold on to his ten for him, if that's all right with her. He needs both hands to hold this slime while he investigates its properties.

[whatamithinking]

Sure.

Munch munch. Fizzy mint. Twenty mana.

...Is it just her, or is the dragon prettier than he was a minute ago? Huh. Maybe mana candies make things prettier. That's probably an arbitrary videogamey thing to have happen, it's not like she knows from video games, really.

Munch. Munch. Forty mana.

...He's just captivatingly pretty. She should probably look around to see what other things look like, now, but it's so hard to look away--and it's not like he wasn't the loveliest thing in her field of vision already.

Munch munch munch. Sixty mana.

She can look at his eyes instead of his scales! That is a thing she can look at. They are so green. She didn't know it was possible for anything to be that...green...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[endragoned]

???

...

That is a Dragonbond. A Dragonbond is what that is.