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In Paraasilan, Esmaar, a pair of roommates are about to break a rule that, compared to the one about running in the corridors or even the one about unlicensed teleportation, is there for a good reason.
In unison, they complete their shared spell.
Joy in Elcenia
joyfulnoise
"Some dragons eat creatures, but I'm civilized, I eat plants and eggs and milk and stuff. And gemstones. Gemstones are tasty."
"Okay, well, we eat plants and eggs and milk too but not gemstones, although I guess if you don't care where they're from it'd be easy to - I mean, if you were going to stay, but we do have to send you home in a few degrees," says Korulen.
"Oh, it's easy to conjure up gemstones, it's illegal to sell them so people mostly don't do it but it's not illegal to eat them," says Korulen.
joyfulnoise
"Cooooooool. Can you give me a bunch of gemstones when you send me back? If it's not too much trouble, I mean? It's hard to find them at home."
"I mean, to actually give them to you we'd have to do a much more complicated spell or take down the ward," says Korulen dubiously.
"Well, we didn't know we were going to get a friendly little dragon," explains Korulen. "We could have gotten anybody when we cast the summoning spell, it's random, it could've been somebody dangerous."
"Yeah. But you aren't going to be stuck for long, soon Nemaar will get out of his class and we can prove we could cast the spell and then you go back where we got you," Korulen says.
"I mean, I guess we could summon you again with a non-random spell? But we are completely not allowed to let you out of the ward without getting you checked over first," says Korulen. "We weren't really allowed to summon you in the first place but that's less for safety reasons, more just we aren't graduated enough to do this big a spell unsupervised except we completely pulled it off because here you are."
"Like I could get my mom to check you but she'd want to know why we'd met a friendly little dragon from another world and wanted to summon him. I'm sorry."
"Okay. But we can chat while we're waiting for Nemaar's class to get out, if there's more stuff you wanna know about our world."
joyfulnoise
"Sure!" he says brightly. "Like what's up with your weird magic, and how do you turn the seasons if it doesn't involve waking up creatures?"
"...Even if bunnies overslept when unsupervised how would that have anything to do with seasons changing?" asks Korulen, bewildered.
"We're wizarding students," Saasnil says. "That's the kind of magic we're doing."
"We're wizarding students," Saasnil says. "That's the kind of magic we're doing."
joyfulnoise
"In Equestria a wizard just means a unicorn who's good at magic. Does your magic come in a bunch of different kinds? Who can do it, if you don't have unicorns? And turning the seasons means, like - actually, never mind the seasons, how do you handle your weather if you don't have pegasi? Do your bird people do weather stuff instead?"
"There are kinds, and anybody can be a wizard, or a witch, and other kinds you have to be born with," says Korulen, "but most anybody can be those, although I don't think dragons can be lights or mages or sorcerers..."
Saasnil says, "Why would somebody have to do weather? Weather just... happens."
Saasnil says, "Why would somebody have to do weather? Weather just... happens."
joyfulnoise
"I guess weather weathers by itself somehow or other in places where there aren't ponies to do it instead, but in civilized places the pegasi manufacture clouds and rainbows and so on and move them around to where they're needed and make sure they behave."