The Twenty Second Trial

[hot_mess_express]

Who: You
When: Day 49, Morning
Where:

The entrance today is a huge, ornate stone archway. A gossamer veil glittering like starlight upon water hangs inside it, fluttering as if caught in a gentle breeze. It's impossible to say what might lie beyond; even if you walk around the other side — and it's perfectly possible to do so — you just see the same thing.

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[bowtiedbones]

[blinks]

Meridian?

[featherbeaned]

H'lo.

[ blinks back at her, lost ]

... Oh. Forgot. I got leggy. [ wiggles said leggies ]

[bowtiedbones]

Hi! When did that happen?

[featherbeaned]

... This morning.

[ Stares balefully down at her toes. ]

I'm a very magic dragon with very bad timing.

[bowtiedbones]

Oh gosh, timing indeed. Do you know how to change back? I sometimes feel more comfortable when I have claws and fangs.

[featherbeaned]

Nnnnoooo. [ Cheeps unhappily!! ]

But! But! I'll figure it out, I did it once this way, I can do it the other way!

[bowtiedbones]

Did anything happen to cause this? Or did it just... happen??

[featherbeaned]

[ uh ]

I did it on purpose 'cause your new person, he's got a magic ring, you know? A magic ring that feels like my magic, and he smells like me, and he asked if he could turn into a dragon, and if I could turn into a human.

... But I don't know how I did it.

[ cosmic deity? yes. idiot? also yes. ]

[bowtiedbones]

Uh... Huh. Have you tried changing back near Mao specifically? Maybe that had to do with it?

[featherbeaned]

Mao? He's called Mao?

Wasn't near him when I [ she can't say "figured it out" because she has figured out absolutely nothing ] got all leggy and human.

[bowtiedbones]

That's what he picked from the theme we have. We use sabertooth nicknames.

Did you just do it by yourself, then? Just by thinking about it?

[featherbeaned]

What's a sabertooth?

[ She nods in answer to the question. ]

Turned half n' half at first. Dragon bits, human bits. [ Even now, she's far from looking fully human, with her fangs, claws, and ears. ] Eliza, why'd humans choose two legs? And no tail? It's so hard!

[bowtiedbones]

It's a type of big cat. And we didn't exactly choose to be bipedal, but it's for the hands. And for the thumb!

[wiggles her fingers]

[featherbeaned]

[ Looks at Eliza's hands, then her own. ]

Just for these?

[ They don't look that special. ]

[bowtiedbones]

Without hands, nothing from our clothes to this train could have been built.

[featherbeaned]

Ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[ ... ]

I like the hair better. It's pretty. [ #aesthetic is the most important thing ]

[bowtiedbones]

The hair is a nice bonus.