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Who: OPEN
When: Day 41, Afternoon
Where: Wherever

[Tis a mingle. Go henceforth and socialize.]

[Chuckling.] I'm sure there'll be plenty of leftovers. Might even get fancy cooked meat.

Oooh, giant bird. That does sound cool. Maybe I could help? I'm pretty good at math and trajectory stuff.

Unfortunately, I have neither the loaned teratorn skeleton, the notes, the cameras, nor the motion-tracking computer programs with me. I do a lot of work where I summon something so it can participate in someone else's study.

Ah. That's a shame. Well, I guess if we ever run into big birds, might be a thing to keep in mind.

So you need to put parts of your soul in the summons though?

No? If your soul is getting involved in a standard summoning, you've messed up badly.

Ooooh, so it's just familiars that need it and summoning is different?

Generally, yes! My familiars are a somewhat confusing case since they are necromantic summons, but they serve a very different role than other creatures I summon, skeleton or otherwise.

So familiars aren't usually skeletons?

You do get some, since dead creatures technically have a magic flow after you've gone and raised them up, but most familiars are going to be live magical animals, like one of my friends has a white dog for hers. Monsters, or magical beasts, like unicorns and griffons also work. Mine qualify both for being dragons and for being dead.

Is there a reason they're so rare? Like it seems like it'd be a lot harder to kill a skeleton familiar than an alive one. Which seems like it'd be real traumatic?

[both of the dragons swing their heads up to glare at Dusk, spiky hackles raised and bristling. eliza's smile wavers.]

Um, it would be, but that's not really a factor we need to consider. There's protections for familiars.

....no offense? Is that offensive?

[What is that wavering smile?] There are?

It's... gauche?

...which part? Because I think I said something bad and it's hard to say which.

The last two parts.

....so dead and killing familiars? Bringing up alive versus dead?

[Isolde leans over Eliza's shoulder and hisses]

Discussing familiars on the merits of how easy they are to kill or not, especially paired with the question of how traumatic that would be... That's really, really tactless.

...ah.

Yeah, now that you say it, that makes a lot of sense.

Sorry.

[pets Isolde's muzzle, shushing her]

It's okay, you didn't know.

I can be pretty tactless if I'm not watching it. And morbid curiosity.

I don't mind morbid curiousity normally, just um. Not as applied to me and mine.

Yeah, that's fair.

Mm. To sort of answer your question though, if one of them died unnaturally, I would have to be hospitalized. Probably immediately, since none of you have the right magic to ward the aftershocks.

What kind of magic would that be? Just to keep an ear out for it.

[Since it can also be KNOWING the person has the magic and people being all cagey about things at times.]

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