In the downtime after a full day of work, Sarah Black, Lateri Xuh, and her rooster (waitaminute, shouldn't that be ███████, Evil Chicken, and his "human"?) are gathered at a table, eating dinner
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"Oh, then it's back to traveling after that?" She makes motions toward her destination, but doesn't quite walk away, yet. That would be rude, and she is at least in a stable enough mood to understand that.
Carlotta follows; she was only wandering around exploring anyway.
"Yes, travelling half the year, at Will's stables the other half." she says. "So that he can keep an eye on the family business during the slow season."
"Yes, I thought so to. I have never heard of it." It is half a lie; she used to know of an element with 10 protons and usually 10 neutrons that behaved the same way as neon. She just didn't call it neon. Also, she forgot about it ages ago, back when she though it wouldn't matter. Ha! Noble gases! So useless!
"The woman who told me of it is also trying to think up of a way to make that safety system you thought of work. We thought bracelets with radios in them might do well."
"I was thinking that there could be something that checks on the wearer every so often and if the wearer does respond, the bracelet calls for help on its own." She pauses. "I sure hope Alyx can make something like that."
They reach the table, and Sarah sets down the books.
"Libraries?" Lateri asks. "I thought there was only one."
"There are two," Sarah answers. "One of them is full of magical books, like a wizard's library, and the other is more like the ordinary kind."
"I only knew of the normal one," says Lateri, speaking for Evil Chicken.
"Carlotta, this is Lateri and her pet rooster Bragolc." Haha, pet rooster. Sarah smiled as she thought how angry that designation made Evil Chicken. The rooster showed no signs of anger, and he wasn't accidentally transferring any angry reactions to Lateri. "Carlotta advised me a bit on the project."
"Lateri is helping me build," Sarah starts. "Well, Bragolc is too, he keeps an eye out for demon bunnies and cats."
"Hi!" greets Lateri before her attention is pulled away toward the book Bragolc is staring. "American southwest… I have never heard of such a place. Weren't there any books about our world?" She starts thumbing through the book with the chicken looking on.
Lateri and Sarah look at him moment, after which Lateri pipes in, "He is very good at escaping trouble," nodding and being a bit condescending. Toward the chicken, not Carlotta.
Oh, darn. Oh well. "Yes, I talk," the chicken admits sheepishly. "It wasn't your fault you didn't know."
Sarah takes the opportunity to page through the book that Lateri and the chicken were looking through and stops at an illustration that matches the one on the table. "There! I'itoi, the Man in the Maze. From some place called... Arizona?"
The cacti in the other picture on the page look awfully familiar.
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"Yes, travelling half the year, at Will's stables the other half." she says. "So that he can keep an eye on the family business during the slow season."
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"Oh! I figured out what ne-on is a few nights ago. It is a gas that is used in electric lights, but it doesn't burn." It is a strange gas.
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She smiles. "Oh! How queer; I never knew that."
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"The woman who told me of it is also trying to think up of a way to make that safety system you thought of work. We thought bracelets with radios in them might do well."
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Carlotta thinks about it.
"What about bracelets that go off if you don't move for a long time?"
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They reach the table, and Sarah sets down the books.
"Libraries?" Lateri asks. "I thought there was only one."
"There are two," Sarah answers. "One of them is full of magical books, like a wizard's library, and the other is more like the ordinary kind."
"I only knew of the normal one," says Lateri, speaking for Evil Chicken.
"Carlotta, this is Lateri and her pet rooster Bragolc." Haha, pet rooster. Sarah smiled as she thought how angry that designation made Evil Chicken. The rooster showed no signs of anger, and he wasn't accidentally transferring any angry reactions to Lateri. "Carlotta advised me a bit on the project."
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The chicken is a little odd, but this is Milliways.
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"Hi!" greets Lateri before her attention is pulled away toward the book Bragolc is staring. "American southwest… I have never heard of such a place. Weren't there any books about our world?" She starts thumbing through the book with the chicken looking on.
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Lateri and Sarah look at him moment, after which Lateri pipes in, "He is very good at escaping trouble," nodding and being a bit condescending. Toward the chicken, not Carlotta.
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Sarah takes the opportunity to page through the book that Lateri and the chicken were looking through and stops at an illustration that matches the one on the table. "There! I'itoi, the Man in the Maze. From some place called... Arizona?"
The cacti in the other picture on the page look awfully familiar.
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