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The bar is unusually empty. Just one girl, sitting on a barstool, reading one of a rather large stack of napkins.
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cumulonimbus
"Oh." Pause. "I don't have very much either. I wonder if it would work for me, though?"
amongstthewinds
"Maybe? We could borrow one from Bar and check, if you wanted, she only charges for things if you remove them from the premises."
cumulonimbus
Not at all. In fact, you can also bring borrowed objects home without paying for them; if you return them, the balance will be removed from your tab, and if you do not, it will remain, but you are under no particular deadline on paying the tab and some people simply don't.
"So we can borrow a thing and see if it works for me."
Yes.
"So we can borrow a thing and see if it works for me."
Yes.
amongstthewinds
"It's kind of heavy, but I'm pretty sure I can carry it. Okay, sounds worth a shot."
Bar provides.
cumulonimbus
"I'd better not try to help. I'd fall over and might break it."
amongstthewinds
"You'll probably want to sit down--or lie down, if there's nothing good to lean against--while you're using it. There's not much attention left for your body like this."
cumulonimbus
"I have to sit or lie down when I'm being the sky anyway."
cumulonimbus
Stormy follows her and plops down in the grass in the yard.
amongstthewinds
Marie shows her where to attach the leads, but lets her do it herself--putting her hands on a kid of about, what, ten? Would feel really skeevy, all things considered, even though there would be absolutely nothing like that behind it.
amongstthewinds
"If it's working, you should feel something immediately...but then, your thing works differently than mine, probably. You could try it."
cumulonimbus
"Okay."
Up she goes.
The sky is just okay, and as Bar warned her it isn't as big as it looks; she is not tempted to stay too long. She opens her eyes again. "It was just normal. I mean, the sky isn't very big, here, it folds in on itself at the edges."
Up she goes.
The sky is just okay, and as Bar warned her it isn't as big as it looks; she is not tempted to stay too long. She opens her eyes again. "It was just normal. I mean, the sky isn't very big, here, it folds in on itself at the edges."
amongstthewinds
"I noticed. Well, it looks like this thing doesn't work for you." She gives it a wistful look.
cumulonimbus
"As long as we're borrowing it you could try it. But there's not very much here, it only goes to about the top of the mountain and maybe a mile out over the lake that way and a little farther over the forest."
amongstthewinds
"Yeah..."
She considers this, and sits down, and attaches the leads to herself. Her eyes are only closed for a few minutes before she tugs them off, making a face. "Feels so cramped," she mutters.
She considers this, and sits down, and attaches the leads to herself. Her eyes are only closed for a few minutes before she tugs them off, making a face. "Feels so cramped," she mutters.
cumulonimbus
"It's not a bad sky, it's just sort of... domesticated."
cumulonimbus
"Yeah, but if I go too big I will die and I don't have a teacher here to watch me or put me in a magic circle, so that's not so bad for me. Is it too small when you aren't hooked up to the thing?"
amongstthewinds
"No, it's fine. It's not a problem with the sky, the sky is fine, I just shouldn't hook myself up to the thing in here."