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

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

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

It's a unit of time. There are twenty-five of them in a day, and the receptionist casts a time spell to display how quickly the subdivisions of angles go by.

About half an hour, then. That's fine.

And indeed half an hour later the receptionist shows a little old lady to Odette's temporary office!

It takes her about ten minutes to get her looking and feeling like she's twenty.

Edited 2016-05-31 00:03 (UTC)

The little old lady is so happy! She hugs Odette and skips off making vague remarks about the boy who looks after her garden.

They find her an elf next. The elf looks sort of like a human except with long pointy ears, white hair, and purple eyes.

Odette pokes at her with her Sympathy senses. There isn't much in the way of meaningful difference. Since she's an elf, she looks like sixty instead of twenty when Odette's done with her, not that Odette has been informed of that.

The elf is also very happy!

The receptionist will keep sending in old people until Odette says she's done, and will tell her how much cash she's accumulated.

Odette isn't going to say she's done for a good long time. Helping people! Adding decades onto peoples' lives! Best thing!

Then she can have more old people even past the usual closing time of the office! They will stay open late just for this.

Excellent. She's pretty much not going to stop until they stop bringing her old people.

Eventually the receptionist is replaced by a different receptionist, presumably because the first one's shift is over, but they must be taking a heck of a cut because they're really excited about continuing to bring her old people.

It is possible Odette will request some form of caffeine if this goes on long enough.

They have tea! She can have all the tea she likes, on the house.

She's a college student, she can go for an inadvisably long time on caffeine and people not dying of old age.

The wizard outfit is delighted to have her.

Of course they are.

Odette doesn't actually notice how long it's been until sunrise, if it gets that far.

It gets that far! For all they know her magic lets her go without sleep indefinitely as long as she has tea.

Alas, no. She can survive an all-nighter but she does call a stop after the session in which she notices the sun rising.

Okay. Would she like a hotel room? On the house.

...Maybe later. She would like to at least find out where her sister is sooner rather than later, actually.

They can do that too! They will decrement their IOU and have someone cast her the scries. They try the intraworld one first.

There she is!

"Where's that?" It looks like some kind of desert...

The scry's zoomed in enough to make out Illia, so it's hard to say. Deserts are mostly an Espaal thing? So maybe Espaal somewhere? It would be easier to tell if she were near civilization.

"...Either way, she's in a desert. And--she hasn't gotten to sleep at all, has she--I should have paid more attention to the time--can you get her here now?"

It'll take about an angle to draw up the diagram but the wizard will get right on that.

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