poll_the_stars | Come on wuss it's just a door

Avetlarinyarenesaar... Is currently trying to force herself to walk another few steps. She hasn't managed it, yet. Her reason for stopping was perfectly ordinary - check the address, make sure it was correct, be sure she was in the right place. She'd been quite sure, but there wasn't any downside to double checking, so she double checked. And triple checked. She stopped herself from quadruple checking, but she wanted to anyway. To - be sure that she was right. Yes. Not because she was procrastinating, or nervous, or thinking what am I going to say? She wanted to be sure that she was right.

Well. She's right. She checked three times, there's no doubt to it.

"Look," she mutters to herself, "I get it, it's scary, but deal. You are not allowed to - to -" To what? Go home? Maybe try to work up the courage later? Maybe try and avoid the shren house like so many other dragons?

It was a door. It's idiotic to be afraid of a door. Sure, there were shrens on the other side of it, but there could conceivably be shrens on the other side of lots of doors, some of them were in hiding, hair dye existed. Subtle colors existed. She could have been near shrens any number of times.

That - did not actually make her fear go away. Instead it makes her want to curl up in her little apartment and not go outside again.

Great. Okay. Stop that train of thought, it's not useful. If she stands here any longer, people are going to stare. (Is that person over there staring? Probably. Damn.) Just - door. Go. Walk.

She forces herself to walk to the door, somewhat stiffly. And then she is at the door. ... Does she knock? Does she just open it and go in? She has no idea. It's customary to knock, so... She takes a deep breath and does so. Resisting the urge to flee and teleport away (or scamper into the bushes) isn't easy, but she manages it.

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alicornucopia

The door is a little open. Keo is lecturing about Vansalese grammar. She gives Avet a small wave when she peers in.

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poll_the_stars

Good to know.

Avet smiles back, slips into the classroom, and casts the spell very softly.

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alicornucopia

Keo has lots of dragon magic!

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poll_the_stars

You know, Avet really isn't surprised anymore.

She nods to Keo, and then returns to the headmaster's office.

"Keo has quite a lot of dragon magic, more than is ordinary," she informs him.

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alicornucopia

"That seems unsurprising," says the headmaster.

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poll_the_stars

She nods. "I had to be sure. More information to be able to make a more informed decision. I'm checking everyone I can, after I check an unusual I'll see if I can find a thudia or a parunia."

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alicornucopia

"We have a thudia," Kanaat says. "If that would be more convenient than finding one in whatever way you've been using."

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poll_the_stars

"Bothering my line representative a lot," she explains. "Sure, if you don't mind."

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alicornucopia

"She's on her way."

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poll_the_stars

"Thank you."

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alicornucopia

Presently the lift opens up and an elf with a strong family resemblance to her father steps out. "Hi."

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poll_the_stars

"Hello," says Avet. "I'm Avet, it's nice to meet you. Has your mother explained everything?"

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alicornucopia

"Yeah."

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poll_the_stars

"And, totally fine with me waving my hands and staring at you briefly?"

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alicornucopia

"...Yeah? She explained it. Go ahead."

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poll_the_stars

"Just checking."

Gesture! Words! Spell! Staring!

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alicornucopia

Korulen has a little teeny flicker of dragon magic. Orders of magnitude less than even a shren.

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poll_the_stars

... But she's not dead? That's interesting.

"I think you're more informative than your mother," observes Avet. "You have a bit of dragon magic. Not very much."

(Less than a shren, she doesn't say, because she does not want to piss off Keo The Terrifying Unique Who Can Melt Minds.)

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alicornucopia

"Huh, really?" says Korulen. "Neat."

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poll_the_stars

She nods.

So. She doesn't actually know if the magicless baby dragon is definitely going to die. But she - highly suspects it. But a thudia has some magic, and the lack doesn't kill them. So where does dragon magic come from? Is it random? Or is there some kind of pattern to it all?

She needs to go to dragon island. Analyses first, then dragon island.

"Thank you for your help," she says to Korulen and Kanaat and Keo. "I suspect analyzing an unusual and a parunia will get me exactly what I think it'd be, but I need to check anyway."

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alicornucopia

"Good luck," says Kanaat.

"Yeah," echoes Korulen. "Bye."

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poll_the_stars

"Thanks. Goodbye."

Off she teleports, to take a teleportation circle to Gibryel. If she keeps this up she'll be able to teleport all over Elcenia on her own.

Time to find a telepath.

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alicornucopia

The telepath is a green dragon who lives in a cute little bungalow with a wife and two thudias. Avet arrives while the wife is preparing dinner and the telepath is trying to get the kids to wash their hands.