how are you feeling?

[small_magics]

[It seems that perhaps we should speak,] Isibel says to Lycaelon. She wishes him a cup of tea, wherever he is, hovering in the air waiting for him to take it. [Though I confess I do not know where to begin.]

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[her_imperial_radiance]

Pop, pop.

[thaumobabble]

"Yep," says Glass, "that's a Darcy. Should we ask the previously encountered Darcy here or would that even accomplish anything?"

[pythbox]

"What's a Darcy?" says Sidanar, settling onto the ground with a nervous glance to make sure she isn't squashing anyone.

She is definitely the most visually impressive of the five conjured dragons. Tianthonet's symmetrical patchy red-and-gold is striking, Arianna's asymmetrical swirling red-and-white is fascinating, but Sidanar's scales are a deep midnight blue with a pattern of branching white lines that look like lightning.

[thaumobabble]

"A template, apparently, although you're the second one we've encountered. Like me and Sarion are the same template, there's another person from another world who's like you. Only she's a human. And named Darcy."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"She has a magic hammer," says Elspeth, "with which she does heroism."

[pythbox]

"What's magic about it, specifically?" Sidanar wonders.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"You can't pick it up if it doesn't like you," says Elspeth, "and it does lightning, that's all I know, it might do other things."

[pythbox]

Sidanar glances speculatively at her own scales. "Huh."

[thaumobabble]

"Yeah, that's a template theme," laughs Glass.

[pythbox]

"Apparently so," says Sidanar.

"Is it the same way for the rest of us?" wonders Sherial, glancing between Lazarus and Elasirae as though trying to identify any visual similarities she might have missed.

[thaumobabble]

"Yes," says Glass, after a moment's thought. "Iridescent black is a Lazarus thing - not for this Lazarus, particularly, but for Lazaruses in general - red-and-gold and red-and-white and various forms of gray are things for the respective other templates."

[pythbox]

"Hmm," says Sherial. The very end of her tail taps thoughtfully against the ground.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Do you want to meet Darcy now, or should it wait until the next peal party?" Elspeth inquires of Sidanar.

[pythbox]

Sidanar glances at the other two dragons.

"...Yeah, I can wait," she decides. "I mean, it's not an emergency, right, the world will go on perfectly well without me meeting my tiny human self and probably stepping on her because that's just my luck?"

"I haven't stepped on mine!" Elasirae says proudly.

[small_magics]

"I begin to develop the impression that I brought hazardous person-squashing dragons into the world and should have been more careful with my wish," remarks Sarion lightly. "Surely it would not be so concerning if it were not at least an occasional occurrence."

[pythbox]

"It's not that," says Sidanar, "it's just..." She shrugs, wings rippling.

"It is not that it has ever happened," says Sherial, "it is just that none of us has very much experience with people of your stature, and it is a natural worry given that lack. Also I imagine it is unsettling to be teleported directly into the midst of an unprecedentedly large number of small fragile people."

"Yes," says Sidanar, "that."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"We are not as fragile as we look."

[pythbox]

"You're still small," says Sidanar, "and it still wouldn't be polite to step on you."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Anyway," says Elspeth. "There's still a Kolya and a Libby to talk to, although I probably shouldn't fetch them here unless more possible Bondings are intended for today. Should I do that now, or do you have questions, Sidanar?"

[pythbox]

"I don't think I have questions," she says.

[nonbird]

"...I'm not sure you should talk to the Kolya," says Lazarus.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Why not?"

[nonbird]

"Well, I know that if there were hypothetical strangers from another world considering whether or not to contact the Kolya I am most familiar with, he would much rather they went away without bothering him."

[thaumobabble]

"This in spite of the fact that this one has a dragon probably ready to dragon-thing at him if they get within eyeshot of each other? He wouldn't want a heads-up?"

[nonbird]

"I don't know this Kolya," says Lazarus. "But I know a Kolya. And I don't think he or I could honestly tell you which one he would prefer. But we'd both be absolutely sure he won't thank you for showing up out of nowhere to tell him things."