I can't fix you, but maybe I can still help

[powerispain]

He's trying to kill us--could ruin him--worry about that later--grab your sister and go.

Comments

[alicornucopia]

An ehis is somebody who does things with waving their hands around and saying things, but she must have a way around that or she made an ehis-thing to do it without the waving-and-saying steps.

[sheerstubbornness]

She has never heard of a mage saying things and waving their hands because they needed to instead of for purposes of drama.

[alicornucopia]

Well, then they're stumped.

[sheerstubbornness]

Is any of them an ehis? Maybe all the ones they've met were just dramatic.

[alicornucopia]

No, they don't have an ehis, but this one has met ehis before! They all have to do the waving and speaking thing! She's sure!

[sheerstubbornness]

Well, Illia's never heard of anything but a mage.

[alicornucopia]

What, really? None of these other kinds of things?

[sheerstubbornness]

...Well, she still isn't fully clear on what these other kinds of things are.

[alicornucopia]

They eventually manage to communicate that there is a fire thing and a water thing and an air thing and an earth thing, and there's ehis, and there's a moving stuff around thing, and there's a light and healing thing but they can't heal themselves.

[sheerstubbornness]

She has never heard of any of these things.

[alicornucopia]

Where the fuck did she come from?

[sheerstubbornness]

A flying island-city called Genosha. But they're not totally cut off, they get news from all kinds of other countries.

[alicornucopia]

The lion people are very confused.

[sheerstubbornness]

Hooray, they have something in common.

[alicornucopia]

The lion people imagine that a sufficiently fancy ehis could make a city fly, that's not the problem, and it is not so impossible that there could be kinds of magic they don't know about because the kyis don't do them and they don't talk to people far away very much; the problem is that they are really sure that all these kinds of magic exist and she hasn't heard of any of them.

[sheerstubbornness]

It's very puzzling. ...She'd never heard of lion-people before, either.

[alicornucopia]

They are pretty sure there are lion people in other parts of the world.

[sheerstubbornness]

This is very very weird and potentially worrying.

[alicornucopia]

They're just as puzzled as she is. Maybe she should go to an ehis place.

[sheerstubbornness]

Sensible. Do they know where one of those is?

[alicornucopia]

There's several ehis-places around this no-ehis place. Well, no kyis ehis; there are some lion person ehis. They think the closest one from here is that way but it's quite a long way. Maybe she should do some not-ehis things for these nice lion people first, huh?

[sheerstubbornness]

Like what? She's not totally unwilling but she does remember that they were threatening her before she exhibited magic and would not like to enable them to be more effective at threatening people in the future.

[alicornucopia]

Well, kyis usually try to kill them, doesn't she know that?

[sheerstubbornness]

She does not know that. It's not terribly surprising in retrospect, mind.

[alicornucopia]

But then she was a not-ehis and the kyis would not have tolerated that so then they knew she was okay. This is definitely the whole story and they were not in the least intimidated or opportunistic about it no ma'am.