Is it accurate to call this a road trip?

[poll_the_stars]

Inavet does not fidget. There is no fidgeting. She is not a creature that is capable of fidgeting, she trained the habit away five centuries ago when she realized it really ticked her off. She will sit, serenely, maybe read books while waiting, but she doesn't fidget anymore.

But right now, she sort of wishes she did.

How does one mentally prepare to go to another universe?

She has no idea. She hasn't done it before. She realizes, vaguely, that this is kind of a stupid thing to worry about. She knows exactly who she's visiting, has wanted to for a while, and it's a smart tactical decision and helpful and safe and oh goddesses what if everything is weird, what if this becomes the most awkward day of all time, what if she spontaneously combusts upon entering the gate and going to Nexus? That can probably happen. Somehow. She's not really sure how, but if she's learned anything from this past week it is that the multiverse is a strange and terrifying place. And that it is good to be paranoid.

She wastes time on paranoia. She sits. She does not fidget. And she waits for a gate.

Comments

[thisvorlunatic]

"All magic systems are weird."

[poll_the_stars]

"I will have you know that mine is perfectly ordinary."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Nope."

[poll_the_stars]

"Yes?" she asks, innocently.

[thisvorlunatic]

...He cracks up.

[poll_the_stars]

She looks far too proud of herself for such a terrible pun.

[thisvorlunatic]

Hey, it made Miles giggle!

[poll_the_stars]

That it did!

"But your fancy clockwork is witchcraft," she informs him, matter of factly.

[thisvorlunatic]

"I am very pleased with my fancy clockwork."

[poll_the_stars]

"I am very happy for you, and also would like you to keep sending me textbooks, but witchcraft."

She is very obviously joking about the witchcraft.

[thisvorlunatic]

"Very nice helpful witchcraft! That allows for games like Plasma Rain to exist!"

[poll_the_stars]

"Ah, and that makes it all worthwhile. Plasma Rain. So you can kick my ass at it."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I kick everyone's ass at it. Except occasionally my mother or Raezenoth."

[poll_the_stars]

"The more things I learn about your mother the more I think she is some kind of minor deity or something."

[thisvorlunatic]

"It's possible."

[poll_the_stars]

"Have you asked? 'Hey mom are you a deity or something'?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"I haven't."

[poll_the_stars]

"She might be, then. You don't know."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I could be a demigod!"

[poll_the_stars]

"You could be! Go join the god topic, talk about god things."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Have you seen the god topic recently?"

[poll_the_stars]

"... Point, nevermind, avoid it."

[thisvorlunatic]

[poll_the_stars]

"Though watching a god passionately defend mortals was pretty great," she admits.

[thisvorlunatic]

"I like Raezenoth."