coeur_de_lion | to paris with love

Alli's school is not a terribly interesting school. It is, as far as Alli is concerned, a perfectly boring and average school in all possible respects. But some alumnus went and made themselves a bunch of money, and apparently they think it's a good idea to spend some of this money on "improving the cultural exposure of today's youth". (Alli has never met the alumnus in question, much less heard them speak, but she persists in picturing this spoken with a haughty British accent.) What this means for Alli is that she and a number of other 'deserving students' are being shipped over to France for free for a week. Alli's not quite sure why she counts as deserving- because her mom's single, maybe?- but she's hardly complaining. It's a free trip to France, after all.

In her usual style, Alli packs an hour before she has to leave and ultimately makes it out the door only ten minutes late after forgetting at least three vitally important items (her eyeliner!). But she makes it through Pearson security with plenty of time... well, more like barely enough time. But the important thing is, she's safely ensconced in her seat when they take off.

Once she's gotten her bag stowed and her legs rearranged in a doomed attempt at comfort and generally considers herself suitably settled, she turns to her seatmate. "Is your brain doing an Eeeeee France! thing too?"

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From:

horsefeathered

Jenny shrugs. "I usually find things out about magic by yelling 'MIIIIIIIKEY' at the top of my lungs. You can come by some time in Toronto if you wanna try it yourself, but asking around in Avalon probably works too."

One more brush stroke and she lets out a satisfied chirp. "Hee! All done."

From:

hatchedplan

May starts waving her hands around to dry the polish. "I might want to meet Mikey, then. As a first step before I address total unconnected strangers."

From:

horsefeathered

Jenny snorts. "Sure, stop by sometime. You may be swarmed by tiny pegasi, though. Just so you know."

From:

hatchedplan

"That does not sound like a problem."

From:

horsefeathered

"It's a pretty cute problem!"

From:

coeur_de_lion

"You got your medallion young or something?"

Edited Date: 2015-01-10 10:27 pm (UTC)

From:

horsefeathered

"We all did! Big family, lots of medallions. And my sister only got hers a few months ago, so she's still big into the 'ditch human form the minute she gets home' thing."

From:

hatchedplan

"Human form isn't an exciting adventure?" says May dryly. "It's more like uncomfortable shoes?"

From:

horsefeathered

"Human form is an adventured adventure. Pegasus form is new and shiny and comes with wings."

From:

hatchedplan

"Are there places to fly?"

From:

horsefeathered

"Noooooot really. She can fly in Avalon, she's small enough, but adult critters who want to fly- or run-"

From:

coeur_de_lion

"Super powered lion running!"

From:

horsefeathered

Jenny snerks, and continues. "-usually go outside the city. There's some forests north of the city that are popular, I think."

From:

hatchedplan

"And that's private enough, or are there also invisibility bracelets on top of the shapeshifting necklaces, or what?"

From:

horsefeathered

"Soooo here's the thing. When people say 'magic' they mean pretty specifically this thing you can do that's unreliable and generally sorta unsafe and has mostly been lost. But species-specific magic is a lot more common? Like, I dunno, nixies can manipulate water, angels can banish demons, that sorta thing. So invisibility bracelets aren't really a thing. That's a 'lost magic' type thing."

From:

coeur_de_lion

"Meanwhile, to actually answer the question: meh, private enough. We're also turning into animals with sharper senses and magical powers; even if humans show up, it's easy to get away."

From:

hatchedplan

"Huh."

May isn't sure she wants to conflate privacy from humans with privacy from critters. Maybe if she figures out how to make her wings and nothing else appear, but she still has to know what to claim to be.

"Is there a word for the species-specific magic, then?"