[BOND]

[luckyheart]

Who: lucky + unfortunate bystanders
When: day 43, afternoon
Where: the dining area

[SO TRAINGOERS. You may still be having water gun fights or you may have gotten bored of it, but if you're heading into the lounge to relax (or the kitchen to refill your water gun), you'll have to get past Lucky! He's taken over the table nearest the entrance to the car, dangling fairy lights from the ceiling and sprinkling silk rose petals on the table and the floor around it. There's a hand-scrawled posterboard hanging from the table's edge:

KISSING BOOTH
FREE
for good luck!!

If you try to pass he'll call out, so good luck trying to escape. But hey, if you play along you'll get sparks...

Or, y'know, you could be doing something totally unrelated in this post.]

Comments

[bowtiedbones]

It has a lot of radiation and a lot of magnetism.

[blinks]

She probably would, but she tries to shred most things made of paper.

[daydreamshimmer]

Huh. How does that sort of thing react to magic?

Would she like flowers painted on her? If you have any writing utensils.

Probably not hard to make flowers.

[When your team bond is make overs....]

[bowtiedbones]

It's beyond the reach of our magic.

She would be super cute with flowers painted on her, but I don't like drawing on my skeletons directly. She's a 700-year-old specimen, so I need to maintain that integrity. But writing utensils...

[waves her along, let's go to THE LAB]

[daydreamshimmer]

I see. [What does that say about Celestia then? How far even IS the sun from Equestia?]

Don't you have magic to reinforce that kind of thing? [But following.]

[bowtiedbones]

Oh, the spellwork on her will keep her from being broken, but modern pigments are difficult to remove entirely. She's my own property and not really in demand for any kind of testing, but I want to keep the habit of having clean skeletons. When I have to mark skeletons for summoning I put them in casts first.

[going to one of her cabinets and grabbing a box of colored chalk]

Anyways, you can't draw on her, but how about the floor? This is designed for chalking up.

[daydreamshimmer]

Casts?

[Looking over the chalk, looking it over thoughtfully and the floor.]

I can do that. I think. Bit of an experiment, but I'm definitely gonna need that tea. [Will carefully take the box in hand, looking at the floor with a thoughtful look.]

[bowtiedbones]

Like papier-mache, basically. Actually papier-mache if it's not a paleological specimen.

I'll go get the tea started, but stay in this corner, okay? I have other projects going and I can't have them being touched or scuffed.

[daydreamshimmer]

Ah.

I won't damage anything. [Especially because she's got Ideas and is curious if that Means Something.]

[Gonna go kneel in the corner and let Eliza go start tea and]

[Okay, she still doesn't know how to consciously fingers, so holding chalk in her mouth to draw.]

[bowtiedbones]

[coming back after a few minutes with tea, and]





Um?

Bond

[daydreamshimmer]

[Holds up her fist a moment, as she's finishing a piece and then sitting back, dropping the chalk into her hand.]

Tea's already done?

[To her credit]

[It's a nice flower.]

[bowtiedbones]

[tea goes fast when you use the microwave to heat your water

shrugging off the chalk thingand quickly distracted anyhow]

It's done— Oh! Wow, that looks great! Is it a daffodil?

[daydreamshimmer]

[At least she's good at not slobbering on the chalk. That'd be rude.]

Well, the first one. I guess I'm not half bad at drawing. And it's more of a daylily.

[bowtiedbones]

I don't really know my flowers that well. But it's super pretty!

[daydreamshimmer]

Good for decoration and food.

But I can't really remember the best way to make a daisy souffle. But drawing seems to work.

[bowtiedbones]

Huh! I wonder if cooking is a kind of thing you need to actually remember the recipe for, or if you can get through it with a kitchen in front of you. I'm the only one on my team who isn't amnesiac, but none of us really cook.

[daydreamshimmer]

Might depend if I could actually cook.

I can remember magic spells, but unicorn magic beyond levitation and special talent requires knowing the spell. The numbers, the emotions, how much power. Don't know it, can't do it. So I guess skill knowledge keeps. Which I'd guess is the same for drawing?

[bowtiedbones]

That would track... My abilities are hindered in a way where I remember everything I've learned and developed, but most spells have just been— disabled. I have to wait until I have enough sparks to reactivate the category they fall under.

[daydreamshimmer]

Yeah.

Of course, the knowledge doesn't do me much good without a conduit. If this body even has natural magic. Can't do much of anything if there's no spark to even start a spell.

[Picking up the chalk again.] It's actually pretty frustrating. I know plenty of shape change spells, but no horn and it might as well be useless jargon. [And chalk in mouth and gonna draw some more flowers.]

[bowtiedbones]

Oh, I can test for that. For if your body has its own magic, I mean.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Drops the chalk and whips around.]

You can?!

[bowtiedbones]

In theory. You're a different kind of human and a different kind of unicorn, but a modified beginner's ward should at least give me a reading if you have usable levels of magic. Hand me the chalk?

[daydreamshimmer]

Yes, yes, do it!

[Grabbing the chalk and bringing it over to her.]

[bowtiedbones]

One second, one second— oh, and leave the necklace off. I don't work with magical items, but let's avoid the risk of interference just in case.

[taking the chalk and stooping to draw a perfect circle around herself in one quick motion. Lori is suddenly there too, swooping in from some corner of the room to land on Eliza's shoulder.]

[daydreamshimmer]

Oh, right, yeah. [Taking it off and]

[Hesitating]

[Before setting is safely out of the way, if still in sight.]

What next?

[bowtiedbones]

[hums and adds a few more circles outside the first, the outermost drawn thick and bold with the long side of the chalk

turns around, facing away from sunset and fussing over the dragon]

Lori, be good, okay? No defense, alert only, okay, good girl?

Solar Flare, can you step into the circle? Lori might get scary, but she won't leave her perch on me.