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Who: anyone
When: day 38, after noon
Where: in and around the train

[A gentle breeze keeps the afternoon cool. It seems peaceful around now, with the malice pushed back so far, unless you're heading to the island of concentrated malice of course.

It's a good day to relax and daydream.

Distantly you might sometimes hear the tick ticking of clockwork? Or it might be your imagination.

Speaking of imagination, if you think about things too hard you may find your thoughts and feelings shared with those nearby. Or even if you don't think hard at all.

At the mildest this might simply be like your thoughts and emotions being understood by others next to you, either in a vague or explicitly detailed way, but at the most extreme you might project shared delusions. Something like others getting to watch your own memories. Or fantasy sequences. Or inner monologues. Or maybe even blending you delusions with another's.

Whether it goes that far or remains a more telepathic/empathic thing is very random.]

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[watching Lori fly from afar, hand lifted above his eyes, before he speaks loudly enough for Eliza to hear]

Is it magic or special skeletal aerodynamics?

[I TOTALLY MISSED THIS TAG ahhh!! eliza perks up hello yes skeleton magic my number one topic]

Magic, but it’s my magic and her own dragon magic!

[IT IS OKAY IT HAPPENS!!]

So it's double magic. Magic squared.

[huh]

Does your magic make it easier for her to use hers or something?

It does exactly that. Dragons have their own magic that helps them fly, but I need to compensate for her not having her original muscles or wing membranes.

That makes sense.

[huh. . .]

Actually, I've been wondering. How does she live without-- [uh] -- internal organs?

Or is that magic, too?

[tell him the science behind ur skeletons, Eliza]

It is more magic! The only thing that's really alive about her is her soul, and that's not really self-sustainable— she gets a lot of energy siphoned off of my own natural magic. There's spells for weight, movement, flight, and all her other functions that were set in place when I summoned her, and those function partly off m calculations of how a flowerdrake should move and then also off of how she remembers a flowerdrake should move.

Edited 2019-08-14 23:36 (UTC)

[HE ONLY UNDERSTOOD LIKE, HALF OF THAT, BUT--]

Ah. . .

[what he does know is that it's super cool]

. . . kind of cool. . . is that why she was able to come to this place with you?

Probably. She's my familiar, so her soul is literally tied to mine.

[he nods]

From my very limited understanding of magic, that seems about right.

She's really neat. Do you think she knows it?

Pretty sure Lori thinks she's great just for being Lori.

She is legitimate and I support her.

[even if she tried to bite off his fingers]

A wise and correct choice.

Hey, speaking of Lori--

[a thoughtful hum]

I know you're an academic, and I know you have a particular interest in dragons and plants. But I don't really know much else about you.

[that has nothing to do with Lori]

Oh! Well, what kind of things do you want to know?

Well. . . you didn't lose your memories when you arrived here, did you?

That's right. I lost some of my abilities, instead. Lori and the other two didn't show up for a while either, and Tiberius still isn't here.

You have more?

[wao]

I knew that some people arrived here with their memories in tact. You can kind of tell from how people. . . well. Act.

[she's confident and knowledgeable so she definitely has memories]

I have four right now.

[of course she's totally planning on getting a fifth if possible, of COURSE]

Some people have memories intact, some people have powers intact, some people are like 80H and have both intact.