imeanforever: (o ~ vassal)
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Near a stream that pours off a high cliff and then snakes away is a garden, carefully tended, and a house, built of wood and stone and transmuted pearl. Fairies weed the plants. One is fixing the roof. A berrybush, hair atangle with spidery branches, is painting gold stripes onto her purple arms.

Date: 2015-04-13 11:45 pm (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (8. elementary problems)
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So is Arcane. Quiet appears to be Arcane's default state.

Look at that landscape go.

Date: 2015-04-13 11:52 pm (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (a. my methods)
From: [personal profile] infinitely_stranger
Arcane keeps flying. He can fly forever, if there is rain enough to live on, and this trip will go much faster if they never land; therefore he plans to sleep on the wing as soon as Promise wakes up.
Edited Date: 2015-04-13 11:53 pm (UTC)

Date: 2015-04-13 11:56 pm (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (4. grand thing)
From: [personal profile] infinitely_stranger
"Hello," says Arcane. "You utter nouns in your sleep."

Date: 2015-04-13 11:59 pm (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (3. proper atmosphere)
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"I wasn't sure. It seems the sort of thing one could escape knowing."

Date: 2015-04-14 12:07 am (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (7. intricate analysis)
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"When I sleep I just keep going in about the same direction at about the same speed that I was going when I fell asleep. It's convenient on long trips, and if I drift off course I can correct it easily enough with fast-flight when I wake up. I think I will stop fast-flying and go to sleep soon. Do you expect to be able to keep up with me for seven or eight hours if I pick a reasonably sedate pace?"

Date: 2015-04-14 12:13 am (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (6. so chimerical)
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"Saying 'Arcane, wake up' is a fairly reliable method, and if that doesn't work and you urgently need my attention, grab the edge of a wing - you won't damage them that way, but it's very startling."

Date: 2015-04-14 12:19 am (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (7. intricate analysis)
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Arcane slows down their fast-flight until the landscape hardly seems to be moving beneath them at all, and then lets go of Promise's hand.

Date: 2015-04-14 12:22 am (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (8. elementary problems)
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Arcane closes his eyes.

It's hard to tell exactly when he falls asleep. It's not like he was doing much other than fly in a straight line to begin with. But his eyes are closed and the rippling movements of his wings are very regular.

Date: 2015-04-14 12:26 am (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (a. my methods)
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About eight hours later, he opens his eyes and looks for Promise.

"Hello. Ready for fast-flight again?"

Date: 2015-04-14 12:28 am (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (5. a touch)
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Arcane takes her hand, and off they zoom. Fast-flight is fast.

Date: 2015-04-14 12:40 am (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (3. proper atmosphere)
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"One of the problems of having a direct harmonic sense is that it's very difficult in general for me to teach my spells to anyone. Fast-flight is one of the ones I haven't managed to translate. I might be able to translate a stripped-down version with fewer conveniences, but so far no one has expressed serious interest in being able to fly very rapidly while making a terrible racket that can be heard for miles in every direction, leaving behind a very obvious trail of disturbed air, and running out of breathable air in somewhere between one and six hours. Or about a minute if the spell didn't include an air bubble at all."

Date: 2015-04-14 12:44 am (UTC)
infinitely_stranger: (5. a touch)
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"If I ever come up with a teachable version of proper fast-flight, perhaps I'll find you and let you know."

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