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.

Comments

[will_you_still]

"Yes, but I guarantee the PRT doesn't, and Legend thinks you have terrible judgement."

[mxglam]

"Well, one, Legend doesn't know what he's talking about, and two, I really really don't wanna be arrested."

[will_you_still]

"If you're over eighteen, lie and say you're seventeen, join the Wards for under a year, and then you're home free. Flee the country, go do good in Europe somewhere or something. Change your costume, voice, and cape name, and pretend you're someone else entirely. Tweaking their nose doesn't actually help you not get arrested."

[mxglam]

"And now you don't know what you're talking about."

[will_you_still]

...

She looks at the platform she's standing on, and calmly thinks, That doesn't exist and doesn't make any sense, I don't believe in it.

[mxglam]

"What did you just do!"

[will_you_still]

She can fly just fine without the platform; she doesn't even need to catch herself from falling, just decline to fall entirely.

"Checked to make sure I knew what I was talking about. You can put it back if you'd like, I won't make it go poof again."

[mxglam]

They do.

They don't say anything.

[will_you_still]

"I haven't told anyone, and I'm not using it as blackmail."

[mxglam]

"What are you using it for, then."

[will_you_still]

"I wasn't actually sure it worked like I thought it worked until I tested that. So. There's that. I want to have an argument you can't just dismiss with 'You don't understand how my power works.' But I'm not going to strongarm you with it."

[mxglam]

"Well, you probably don't understand it anywhere near as much as I do, or you wouldn't have suggested moving to Europe as a solution to my problems!"

[will_you_still]

"So explain it to me? Maybe I can help."

[mxglam]

"Can you give me a really good reason? 'Cause, like, right now you got me halfway convinced to go to Europe just so you won't absolutely ruin everything ever."

[will_you_still]

She purses her lips and thinks of how to tackle this.

"I apologize for potentially ruining absolutely everything ever. I am trying not to, thus why I am asking for more information - I don't want anything ruined, except perhaps the Endbringers, the Slaughterhouse Nine, and the idiot warlords in Africa that think people are expendable. I am trying to think of a way to get you safely in a situation where you have the power you have accumulated, potential allies, and room to grow, but not the issue with the Protectorate wanting to arrest you."

[mxglam]

They think about it.

"Okay."

[will_you_still]

"To put into perspective how blasé I am about typical rules people follow, the next thing I'm planning to do in my mission to save the world is conquer a large part of - well I haven't decided the exact country I'll start with, but it'll end up being most of Africa - to be warlord of," says Morgan. "So we can definitely go with some atypical solutions."

[mxglam]

"...I like you," they decide. Then sigh. "Okay, so, my power... Well, glamour, it creates solid illusions, but a better way to put it may be that I channel, direct, and magnify people's beliefs and expectations through those illusions. Like you showed just now, that also works against me. The only reason it worked, though, is 'cause you and I are the only ones here. Other people don't just expect stuff to disappear if I don't will it, so they'd have kept it there as long as I wanted it there."

[will_you_still]

Nod.

"Do the people need to be observing the not-quite-illusions?"

[mxglam]

"Observing is not quite the word. But there needs to be a... way-the-world-is and a way-the-world-is-not and a way for them to tell those apart immediately. They don't need to be seeing the elephant in the room to notice the lack of its shadow if it disappears, and that keeps it from disappearing."

[will_you_still]

Nod. "Do you work through cameras?"

[mxglam]

"Yeah. Anything that will reliably tell if my power is or is not active can do."

[will_you_still]

"And can other people similarly affect what you do through cameras?"

[mxglam]

"Yep."

[will_you_still]

"Does the several second delay live video have prevent most cameras from affecting things, or does it go through anyway?"