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The bell rings.
For someone with so much free time he feels like he is always late to things. The school map isn't really that useful, so he asks someone.
"Hi? I am looking for Ms. Smith's class?"
Salmons and Silvers in Dreamshard
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There is! It displays the most important exhibits in a rather informative manner. "Oooh, they're going to have a skymagery show in twenty minutes!"
a dream boy
They have time to walk around and see a room or two. This one has an interactive exhibit of a piece of unicorn horn in a water tank. People can push a button to release ink into the water and then watch as the water is magically purified.
a dream boy
There are plenty of pretty things! They have phoenix feathers in this display, next to an explanation of the history that led to its extinction.
There is a mirror that doesn't show people. There is a bar of metal that turns from lead to gold when exposed to sunlight. There is a magical floating orrery sort of thing.
Ignite The Light
The show is outside. There are seven skymages there. Hard to miss the colorful wings. There is even a set of twins that are nearly identical. Only the wings are different!
A middle-aged skymage woman introduces herself and welcomes people to the presentation.
Come Forth Winter
She gives an introduction to skymagery. Every skymage has the gift of flight, plus any combination of the following gifts: wind, warmth, cold, humidity, lightning, darkness, light and forecasting. Sometimes these gifts come in stronger form and this is represented in their wings. The greater gifts are randomly selected.
Fenris and Felix here are a great example of this. They're genetically identical, but the random selection of greater gifts meant that each one got a different one.
Fenris levitates off the ground, simply ignoring gravity instead of doing anything that uses his wings. The woman explains that skymages with the greater gift of flight can just ignore gravity instead of actually using their wings. This is shown through wings that are differently shaped. Fenris' wings have a pair of claws in each and are slightly smaller.
Ignite The Light
Some people applaud. The woman continues the explanation. "Felix on the other hand got the greater gift of warmth. Sometimes just called the gift of fire. It does the obvious thing."
Felix snaps his fingers and pretends to have some trouble getting it. But then a ball of fire forms above his hand. People are impressed. Felix "draws" a heart with fire and people applaud.
Come Forth Winter
The lesser gifts are still useful. Which is demonstrated when Fenris douses the fire heart with a localized cloud. Another skymage then complains that one shouldn't rain on someone's else day. And leaving puddles around isn't polite. The skymage makes the water float off the ground. Another skymage freezes it.
Come Forth Winter
The show proceeds like this. At one point they take flight and start making interesting things with the clouds.
Come Forth Winter
There is some talk about global warming (and how it's not caused by skymages; this causes people to laugh) and environmental importance. Most people are paying attention to the minor feats of magic in the background.
Like this one twin high-fiving people while flying upside down.
High-five?
Ignite The Light
Eventually the show ends and the crowd disperses. Some of the skymages hang around and even talk to people that approach them.
Ignite The Light
One of the skymage twins was talking to a child that asked to touch his wings. He provided that until the child's parents hurriedly retrieve the kid.
(The parents look vaguely afraid.)
