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[hot_mess_express]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 43, Nighttime
Where: The clearing, now no longer a beach

[ The beach fades away, leaving everyone back in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of the clearing and their-- beloved?-- train. There are some new stars in the sky, twinkling in ginger goldenrod, thyme apple, senna terracotta, jasmine blue, and clover pink.

The sound of a giggle fills the air and leaves behind bubbles-- touching one will give the uncontrollable urge to hug the nearest person. They will persist throughout the night. ]

Comments

[learnedfool]

Yes, they are. And I have to say that the one with the ponies was more like my own home than the one with the humans.

[even setting aside skin colors]

Ignoring the degree of moving objects with magic.

[daydreamshimmer]

Levitation is the one spell all unicorns put in the effort to learn. It'd be real easy for an alicorn to nail down.

[learnedfool]

But not something most humans have access to. I don't even think those of us with unusual gifts can manage it.

[daydreamshimmer]

.....so you have chaos and destruction, but not levitation?

[learnedfool]

Yes. And the reverse. Uphill magic instead of downhill. That's harder, since Des needs something to balance the scales, or I overheat.

[daydreamshimmer]

The scales?

[learnedfool]

To make Des's magic go uphill, I need to send something downhill to compensate, or that something is me. We can hold it back for a short time, or build up reserves, but that's about it. And it's only because Des is a very old demon; she has a lot of learned control.

[daydreamshimmer]

But she doesn't need to for sending things downhill?

[learnedfool]

Less so, since she generates the chaos on her own, and downhill magic is mostly helping things that happen on their own.

[daydreamshimmer]

Well, at least there's that. Your chaos is still weirdly rule following for chaos. [It's downright odd.]

So is uphill hard for you because she's around or is that just an always thing?

[learnedfool]

Before she arrived, I couldn't do anything magical. Most humans can't.

[daydreamshimmer]

....how does she make magic move through your body?

[learnedfool]

I don't know. We'll have to work on translating how she sees it into something I can explain in words.

[daydreamshimmer]

....we don't. Necessarily need words?