Application: Ssillissa, Larklight

[justabluelizard]

The door opened, and Ssillissa slipped into the sorting room. She glanced around, not recognizing her surroundings, and shrugged. Although Larklight no longer had its original alien gravity generators, it was still a large, strange house. She must have gotten turned around somewhere, she decided, and opened the door to get back to some part of the

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[ra_tilt_chimera]

Zel raised an eyebrow. "I think I'd pass on the gowns; I"m not exactly fond of dressing up in women's clothing, and they'd fit me no better than you. What's this about giant white spiders?"

((OOC: You might want to cover your ears for a moment. *ahem* EEEEEE! It's Ssil! And you're dead on with her, too!))

[justabluelizard]

Ssil started, just a little, when she saw Zel - he looked, almost, like he might be the same species as she was, with the blue skin and pointed ears. He didn't seem to have a tail, though, and he had hair rather than spikes. Pity. Being possibly dragged across the universe would have been almost worth it, if it meant she'd found where she came from.

"The sspiderss?" Ssil asked. "They were here before the planetss formed, and they tried to desstroy them recsently. Almosst managed it, too."

[ra_tilt_chimera]

Zel rolled his eyes. "Them and half of every universe, it seems. There are way too many people who want to destroy the world."

He noticed her surprise, of course. Then again, she was hardly the only person who'd ever been shocked at meeting a chimera. "I'm Zelgadiss Graywords, by the way. Call me Zel, it's easier." Especially considering Ssil's hissing.

[justabluelizard]

"I'm Ssillissa," she replied. "Iss the 'desstroy the worldss' thing that common, then? I would think that mosst species would rather have planetss to live on."

[lemondrop_party]

(( Oooh, Larklight! Has been on my reading list for a while ... I'll have to get cracking. I don't mind spoilers at all, however, so here's Albus! ))

Albus Dumbledore did not recognize this woman's species, as it were. He did, however, recognize some of the terms she used. After all, in the 1900s he had done some alchemical work with no less a partner than Nicolas Flamel.

He wished old Nic could have been here to speak with this Ssillissa. Surely there could have been marvelous collaborations and discourses, in the ultimate spirit of international cooperation! (Though perhaps that was merely the former Supreme Mugwump in him surfacing for a moment.) How similar would the alchemy practiced in other worlds be to the alchemy he had practiced with Flamel?

"An instinct for the chemical wedding?" he repeated. "What does that entail, might I ask?"

[justabluelizard]

"It'ss how aethershipss can travel at sspeed," she explained, a little disappointed. She must be quite a distance from home indeed, if they didn't know about the chemical wedding here. "If you mix jusst the right chemicalss, it can put the whole ship a little out of ssync with the aether around it, and then you can ssail at near the sspeed of light without damaging the vesssel."

[lemondrop_party]

"To the alchemists I have known, the 'chemical wedding' meant something different, something more figurative and allegorical," Albus explained in turn. "It did stand for a real union of chemicals in the end, one intended to lead to the Philosopher's Stone. We have not heard of aetherships here. I do hope you will not find us too backward! There may be other things you may find worth learning here at Hogwarts."

[justabluelizard]

"It may well have more allegorical meaningss where I come from," Ssil admitted. "Mosst of my alchemical knowledge iss in regardss to the propulssion and sstearing of aethershipss. Mosst of the sscholarss at the insstitute did not approve of my learning even that much, ass I wass jusst a girl, ass well ass not being human."

[rogue_nebari]

Chiana doesn't take notice of the fact that the new girl is a blue lizard (some of her best friends have been either blue or lizards) or the fact that she is discussing alchemy. Instead, she predictably hones in on the most important thing here: "What kind of silk gowns? Can you give me an idea of the cut? Color? I'm always on the look out for pretty things." She smiles winningly, head tilted in a reptilian manner.

[justabluelizard]

"Mosstly evening gownss, with very full sskirtss," Ssil replied, gesturing at her sides to indicate how full, "and a mix of high and low neckliness. Beautiful selection of colorss, too, lotss of bluess and redss," she sighed. Really, it was a pity that, being a sort of lizard, she'd never have the bosom needed to pull off most Earth-made dresses.

[rogue_nebari]

"I might have a look at some of the low neckline ones once you're voted in. Maybe something red. I like red." She crouches slightly, looking back at the application before returning her attention to the lizard. "So you're smart?"

[justabluelizard]

"Alright. If I can get back to Larklight to get them, you're welcome to any that you like," Ssil promised.

She thought for a moment. "I ssupposse I am," she said carefully. "Mosst of it iss really more insstinct than intellect, though."

[the_lady_door]

Having seen some rather unusual individuals in her day, Door isn't taken aback by the newcomer's appearance, but one of her remarks gives her pause.

"Giant white spiders?"

[justabluelizard]

So apparently they hadn't heard about the First Ones, here. That was a little odd, seeing as the spiders had recently come very close to destroying London.

"Yess," she said. "Nassty creaturess. They tried to demolish the planetss, not sso long ago."

[the_lady_door]

"...how big?"

[justabluelizard]

"Different ssizess for different jobss," she replied. "There were a few the ssize of my hand, and one or two ass tall ass I am. Mosst were ssomewhere in between."

[bantersucks]

((Don't know her canon, am working off Wikipedia and your icons, please correct me! Will be slow.))

Jaime was wandering through the crowds in the Sorting Room when he caught a glimpse of a blue-skinned figure out of the corner of his eye and did a double take. He let out a breath, relieved; the lizard woman looked nothing like what he'd initially mistaken her for. The grimace that followed was due to the voice only he could hear telling him that it had told him that already. He tuned it out and skimmed over a copy of the application to cover his embarrassment.

Ssillissa was probably tired of this question by now, but he had to ask. "Giant white spiders trying to destroy the solar system?" She might notice he sounded only somewhat incredulous, and there was a hint of exasperation, almost. "What do they have against it anyway?"

Seriously, it seemed like every other group of aliens back home were trying to take over Earth or blow it all up.

[justabluelizard]

"Apparently, they were ressentful that the planetss had formed in the firsst placse," she said. "They don't do well in gravity, you ssee. We didn't get much more explanation than that, bessidess when Ptarmigan wass boassting to Jack and Art. I'm not sure how much of hiss ssenssess he wass in command of at that point, though."

[bantersucks]

Jaime blinked. "That's like saying you want to pave the desert because you don't like dust and sand instead of moving elsewhere." He smirked at her last comment. "Guess if you're going to brag to people how you're gonna destroy their solar system, you're probably not all there to begin with." It was probably an Evil Overlord Rule. Probably not one he could trick the Reach negotiator into breaking, though. "So, just leaving the solar system wasn't an option, or were they too far gone to think that way?"

[justabluelizard]

"I don't think they had much in the way of working aethershipss," Ssil replied. "Actually, ass far ass I know, they had only one, and hundredss of sspiderss. I ssuposse they could have hijacked ssome of ourss, but the British 'shipss are hardly capable of intersstellar flight. That'ss asssuming they had enough alchemissts amoung them."