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May and Isabella write Joel the white stag leader of the Christina Lake Regional Avalon. He is surprised. When he calms down, he has some suggested tweaks, which they make, and then they start envelope stuffing, a task accomplished substantially with magic.
They include, after some deliberation, a fundraising scheme: Isabella can heal people and they're planning to run around visiting lots of Avalons. If anyone would like them to visit their Avalon sooner rather than later, they can bid on the privilege, and while they're anywhere Isabella will heal needy parties. (They suspect, but have no affordances to test immediately, that May might be able to soak up some of the side effects of the healing, like an eaten spell. They mean to find this out as soon as possible.)
Before they mail out the final letters, it occurs to May to call her friends back in Toronto. She starts with Alli.
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maybeso
maybeso
Okay. Impressively unCatholic of her but May's not complaining. "Her name's Isabella and she's from California and she's right here listening to you squeal."
horsefeathers
"...I refuse to apologize. Hi Isabella! Nice to meet you!" Pause. "Be nice to May or else, she's awesome."
shesepankh
"That's really not going to be a problem," Isabella says in the direction of the phone.
maybeso
(Their voices are differentiable only faintly, by accent, but May's is louder.) "And the story of how we met starts in a weird place and gets weirder from there, you want to hear it?"
horsefeathers
"...that is not how I was expecting this story to start. What, really? Really really?"
horsefeathers
"...wow. Congratulations on not being extinct? Okay, for now, freaking out about the crazy dragon thing can wait. Story?"
maybeso
"So, the very day I was born, a runecaster decided she didn't want dragons or sphinxes to be extinct, so she cast a spell to conjure up baby extinct whatevers. But I was a dragon and therefore dragons weren't extinct, so she only got a sphinx. The sphinx she got contains a duplicate of my personality down to the handwriting, and that's Isabella."
horsefeathers
"Did you steal one of Patrick's story books?" Jenny wonders. "Like, I love you, you're probably not messing with me, but also- whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat."
maybeso
"I'm not messing with you. Our voices are the same too, but that's a little hard to prove over the phone unless you're really good at telling the difference between real and fake American accents or different versus identical voices speaking at the same time."
horsefeathers
"But... but..." Jenny splutters. "You're supposed to be extinct. She was extinct! is! I don't know. She's just... she's created? Whaaaaat."
maybeso
"Rumors of my extinction were greatly exaggerated and she's a mammalian-slash-avian Jurassic Park situation," says May dryly.
horsefeathers
Jenny makes incoherent noises a few seconds longer, then pulls herself together. She has many questions, but most of them are for her priest, not her friend.
"Er. Sorry. English now, I swear. I... I hope you're happy?" she attempts.
(Questions like "can I meet her" will be waiting till after church. Created. That's... a thing. That she would like to talk to a priest about.)
"Er. Sorry. English now, I swear. I... I hope you're happy?" she attempts.
(Questions like "can I meet her" will be waiting till after church. Created. That's... a thing. That she would like to talk to a priest about.)
maybeso
"I... do not know what part of this story triggered your incoherent unhappy noises button, if it wasn't the 'girlfriend' part."
horsefeathers
"I was not really expecting the... the... created out of thin air thing? It's. Hard to wrap my head around."
maybeso
"This wasn't like in a lab. She has a mom who, you know, mommed her. She has to pretend to be adopted because her mom's Chinese but she doesn't really consider herself that way because she did make her."
horsefeathers
"It's kind of a lot to sort out? Don't worry about it. I... think she's fine."
Jenny still wants to talk to Father O'Brien rather desperately, but she is tentatively laying her dismay at the runecaster's feet, not Isabella's.
"I'm sorry, May, I don't mean to be all mopey at you. It's a lot of surprises! I'm trying! I am, I like it when my friends are happy!"
Jenny still wants to talk to Father O'Brien rather desperately, but she is tentatively laying her dismay at the runecaster's feet, not Isabella's.
"I'm sorry, May, I don't mean to be all mopey at you. It's a lot of surprises! I'm trying! I am, I like it when my friends are happy!"
maybeso
"We're really happy. I am obviously the sort of person who is meant to date myself."
horsefeathers
That gets a slight giggle. "Good for you! I bet I would drive myself nuts."
maybeso
"Then if I find a duplicate of you I will not set you up. Anyway, we're doing a global reveal of the dragon and sphinx thing, and I wanted to tell you guys first."
horsefeathers
Jenny makes polite semi-excuses about 'controlling the herd' and gets off the phone with a last congratulations. (The joy of her herd of tiny pegasi siblings is that, when babysitting, "I have to go rein them in" is always true. Somehow.)
She does her best not to think about it. If she thinks about it, she just goes into a moderately panicked spiral of but only God creates people! Church is soon. She can panic about it then, in confession- with some details omitted, of course- and Father O'Brien will help her figure it all out.
She does her best not to think about it. If she thinks about it, she just goes into a moderately panicked spiral of but only God creates people! Church is soon. She can panic about it then, in confession- with some details omitted, of course- and Father O'Brien will help her figure it all out.