Searching Far and Wide

[intricate_engineer]

Glen was creating a prototype for a new gate design. It was meant to be affordable and provide quick transport between individual homes. She tests several objects and a rat and everything seems to be working.

She steps through. Instead of finding herself in the room next door, she finds herself standing on a sidewalk in an empty city. The buildings are tall and perfect, colorless with doorways far too tall for any human. The roads have no straight lines and twist in on themselves. There is no life or sound.
Glen tries to stay calm. She begins to walk along the road, randomly opening doors and exploring buildings that are as silent as the rest of the world.

She opens a door that she hopes will lead onto a roof and is instead met with warmth, and soft noise, and color.

Comments

[the_very_best]

"Guess so."

[intricate_engineer]

Glen jams a stick into the ground and asks Rabbit to practice some attacks on it.

[the_very_best]

The stick is very short-lived.

[intricate_engineer]

Glen looks around for a few more sticks and lines them up in a row. She asks Rabbit to attack again.
She glances over to see how Bella and Blink are doing.

[the_very_best]

Blink has fallen asleep. Bella has Rachis sparring with Fireflower.

[intricate_engineer]

Glens ask her, "Would it be too dangerous for my 'mon to practice on yours?"

[the_very_best]

"Not particularly. I can tell mine to go gentle."

[intricate_engineer]

"Please."
Glen practices with Rabbit, letting Blink rest.

[the_very_best]

Bella tosses Zag. "Zag used to be a Zigzagoon, might be more useful at teaching Zigzagoon-relevant skills," she explains. "Gentle, Zag."

"Noone," says Zag.

"Good boy."

[intricate_engineer]

"What is he now?"

[the_very_best]

"Linoone," says Zag, and Bella gestures at him.

[intricate_engineer]

"How long did it take for him to evolve?"

[the_very_best]

"I got him partially trained up, but a couple years after that."

[intricate_engineer]

"So I won't need to worry about that for a while yet."

[the_very_best]

"You don't have to let Rabbit evolve if you don't want for some reason."

[intricate_engineer]

"I wouldn't really mind. I just wouldn't want to be surprised. How do you stop it though?"

[the_very_best]

"If he starts glowing you tell him to stop that."

[intricate_engineer]

"Glowing?" Glen asks, slightly incredulous.

[the_very_best]

"They glow when they evolve!"

[intricate_engineer]

"Okay, I don't... That makes even less sense. They evolve all at once? They glow? How is that even possible?"

[the_very_best]

"...I'm not sure why this is throwing you."

[intricate_engineer]

"Obviously there's some magic, but if they glow, that's not something animals can just do. That means the magic isn't just something they occasionally do. I don't know. It just seems strange."

[the_very_best]

"...Blink can teleport and you're concerned about how she might one day glow?"

[intricate_engineer]

"Well I can teleport, but I can't make myself glow. Unless I was wearing lights, I'd have to change my cells or something. I don't know."

[the_very_best]

"Zag can call up lightning bolts and water out of nowhere and you're concerned that one time he glowed?"