My bunny slippers just ran for cover

[will_you_still]

Morgan doesn't strictly need to sleep. Even if she didn't want to put up with the annoyance of constantly having a caffeine buzz and having to ask for coffee on almost every summon, there are naps. Naps can keep a daeva going for quite a long time.

But there's something unutterably pleasant about curling up in a proper bed in pajamas and just sleeping. And then waking up and getting breakfast in those pajamas. So she does that, because immortality's a long unpleasant time if you don't enjoy the little things every now and then. Like adorable bunny slippers and soft pajamas and sleeping in.

She's midway through a fruity salad thing that counts as the standard fairy breakfast when she feels the summon. Showing up to a summon in pajamas? Eh. If they're proper summoners she bets they've seen worse, and she doesn't particularly care if they think she's unprofessional.

She puts her spoon down and accepts the summon.

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[peterxy]

Well, a whole lot of water is now no longer destroying things!

...too bad there's still a lot more where that came from. It is after all a tidal wave, there is a lot of water coming.

[will_you_still]

Yeah, she'll be back, that just particularly pissed her off.

Fly fly fly away from the island she doesn't know Earth all that well and can't really figure out where they are but she can get them away from here.

(She's nearly certain that it's a fairy causing havoc. A demon could make the tidal wave, and maybe the earthquakes too if they were very creative, but not pull off the super-speed. So this is a fairy she's dealing with. Problematic, makes it hard to pick up the fairy and drag them into space for a time out, but she bets she can manage it.)

Safe-looking place now?

[peterxy]

Well she's pretty fast, eventually she will find a safe-looking place, a harbor and a city with actual people in it and no monster destroying it.

[will_you_still]

Oh, good. She starts looking for a police station, from up in the air.

... She should probably get this kid to not mention summoning a fairy to anyone, lest they get very concerned and a bit overzealous. Summoners can sometimes get a bit trigger happy when they think there's a chance of a rogue daeva.

What's a convincing way to tell her not to talk about summoning a fairy?

Probably just asking, honestly.

"Hey," says Morgan, "can you do something for me, Mary?"

[peterxy]

Mary looks up at the fairy and nods. She's not openly crying anymore but her eyes are puffy and red and she's sniffling.

[will_you_still]

"Can you keep me a secret? I'm worried that people might get scared if you say you summoned a fairy. You can still say I'm a fairy. Just - saying you summoned one might scare people, and things are scary enough right now, aren't they?"

[peterxy]

She nods again many times. She doesn't seem to want to speak much.

[will_you_still]

"Okay. Thank you." Hair pet. "I'm going to find a person to take care of you while I make the monster go away. You're safe now."

She finds a police station, and lands neatly in front of it. For all that she's clad in a pair of pajamas and bunny slippers, she stands more like a queen, and opens the door (with magic) and walks in like she owns the place.

Are there administrative people that could figure out what to do with a stray child here?

[peterxy]

There are, and they're more confused about the fact that she's not wearing a mask than about the fact that she's in pyjamas. Though given how obvious the wings are, maybe a mask would be pretty useless.

"How can I help you?" a helpful-looking lady asks.

[will_you_still]

"Can you find someone to take care of this girl?" asks Morgan. "Her name's Mary O'Brien." She doesn't say 'her parents are dead' but from her expression it could be surmised.

[peterxy]

The lady furrows her brows. The fact that the both of them aren't soaked through means that her provenance isn't as obvious. "We can. Where are her legal guardians?" The girl doesn't react to that; apparently it does not occur to her that those would be her parents.

[will_you_still]

...

"We came from the island," she says, by way of explanation. She surmises that the woman would figure it out from there.

[peterxy]

She does! And takes the child off Morgan's hands.

[will_you_still]

She nods.

"It'll be okay," she assures Mary, and then out she goes.

There is a monster that needs killing. Finding it's not going to be a problem. Off she flies.

[peterxy]

Fly fly fly!

And eventually she finds the rain. The monster that needs killing is elsewhere on the island. And more destruction has happened there.

[will_you_still]

Yeah. Of course it has.

She starts looking for the monster. Tough going, but she can briefly stop the rain blocking her vision, so not that tough.

[peterxy]

The creature's pretty tall anyway so it's not hard to find.

It is currently moving really fast at people, then stopping and letting its watery afterimage - which contains way more water than could possibly have been on the monster - crash against them.

[will_you_still]

Mhm.

That's interesting, maybe taking advantage of the invulnerability to keep the water from being taken away.

How does the creature feel about, oh, being yanked away from someone it's trying to move really fast at before it's anywhere close?

[peterxy]

...well it does not seem to express many feelings either way. It reacts very quickly to its new surroundings in the most destructive possible way, turning around a lot and using its large tail to hit things.

[will_you_still]

Mhm. So maybe she can just pick it up and take it to space, probably not very far without any sort of thing to calculate how to get back to Ea-

...

What in the world are these people wearing.

Some of them are bleeding. Profusely. A few of them are in pieces. A daeva wouldn't have gotten hurt so badly.

...

This isn't a daeva fight.

Oh shit.

I'm immortal they're not -

And what comes next is pretty obvious. Well, to her. She rips the monster off of the ground, holds it aloft a hundred feet in the air, and then she hits it with the most unbreakable thing she has as hard as she can move it.

Which is to say, herself. Ow.

[peterxy]

Well.

The monster is hit pretty damn hard.

But the monster itself is pretty damn hard. It hurts the monster, who's thrown away pretty far into a building, causing its collapse.

But concussive damage doesn't seem to be quite the way to go.

[will_you_still]

Welp, she tried to kill it, now it's time to take it to space.

C'mon monster you're going on a field trip!

Yoink.

To space!

[peterxy]

The monster starts generating water and using it to push itself towards the Earth.

[will_you_still]

See, no, that's not what they're doing here. The monster stays (relatively) still, despite its pushing. What's happening here is experiment time. How does one kill a monster? She's ever so curious. Can she, for example, rip it limb from limb?

[peterxy]

Well, she can try.

And the end effect is that she finds out this monster doesn't have internal organs; it has layers, with black ichor between them. The way she discovers this is that she can remove some of them, but not all, and there is a core that seems to be pretty resistant to being moved away from itself.