Fifth Negotiation

[prodigious_mage]

[action]
[Oh, gosh.  How adorable.  Today, there is what looks almost like a lemonade stand set up outside 1448 Mitchell Road, complete with smiling, cherubic face shining forth underneath a large sign that reads . . . um.

WILL USE MAGIC SPELLZ TO IMPROOF LIFE FOR MONEE OR COOKIES

Whoever passes by will be treated to a little boy shouting:]

Heyyyy!

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[hontobakabaka]

[A pale girl with amber eyes stops and looks over the sign, then looks at Palom, then ponders after listening to his mutterings and puts a small bag of cookies on the counter.]

"What kind of magic? Also... Who is Relm?"

[prodigious_mage]

((Ah, action and voice don't happen simultaneously, so Relm wouldn't have been mentioned.))

[Palom's eyes grow large. How did she just happen to have a bag of cookies on her?]

B-Black magic! The strongest kind of magic, of course.

[hontobakabaka]

((I'm sorry, still learning and kind of a doof. Ignore that part.))

[In a deadpan voice with little expression on her face.]

"I'm sorry, there is no magic where I come from. Is that rabbits in hats?"

[prodigious_mage]

((Not a problem!))

...... What?! Oh! Oh, wait. You want to see Kaito's kind of magic.

[Pause. That person had left a long time ago, from what he had heard.]

No, I do real magic.

[And in a second or two, Palom is holding a fireball in his hands.]

[hontobakabaka]

"Actually there is no magic where I come from. There are several technologies like magic, but, direct magic doesn't exist."

[She tilts her head and ponders, still with an expressionless look on her face.]

"So you use a magic as a weapon. Are there any applications that work as defense, or perhaps transportation?"

[prodigious_mage]

Healing and defense and some statuses go under white magic, but both black and white magic can be used to teleport places.

[hontobakabaka]

"I see. Would you be willing to trade explaining the base theory of how it operates for cookies? They make me bake them in home economics class and I don't really enjoy sweets more than once or twice a week."

[prodigious_mage]

Are you kidding? I could do that in my sleep! That's all you want, really?!

[hontobakabaka]

[She blinks and ponders slightly.]

"I find learning new things to be fascinating, and the mathematical equations involved must be rather complex. Without Omoikane here I've had little to tax my brain in that way."

[prodigious_mage]

Magic's less mathematical and more thaumaturgical. It's easy to start learning in my world, but I don't think you'll be able to make any practical use of it.

[hontobakabaka]

"Quite probably. However, we do have teleportation on my world, and the gravity blast cannon would be considered magical by most. I know and calibrate the equations that go into those daily. Seeing how it is done on other wolds would be fascinating, don't you think?"

[prodigious_mage]

Of course! Just as long as you don't expect to be able to learn it. For some reason, it doesn't seem like people can.

[hontobakabaka]

"Even if I could use it, I don't think there would be many practical uses for it. Even at home the closest I get to a fight is the bridge of a ship."

[prodigious_mage]

It will be useful here, sooner or later. Trust me.

[hontobakabaka]

"I'm not much of a fighter. I was trained in tactics and logistics in the military sense."

[She stops and blinks.]

"Oh yes, my name is Ruri."

[prodigious_mage]

I'm Palom! Nice to meetcha.