cake and ice cream

[self_composed]

Bella finds Milliways next, too, on New Year's Day, and calls in Alice (he's not coming to Goldenworld even if they find a person who can take them there, but he might find someone interesting to talk to in the bar) and also Lazarus. She mentions the door to Libby, too, in case she and/or her wolf want to take an excursion and see if his friends and family back home can be visited.

Comments

[self_composed]

[Love you.]

"Libby, I hope you're not contemplating giving Addy a coin."

[prima_sequentem]

"I'm not about to give Addy a coin," says Libby.

[self_composed]

"Please at least don't do it without clearing it with my alt, whose Factotum is the one such a behavior could potentially turn into a loose cannon. Addy, despite this little disagreement about whether you get to hold any of our magical currency, I assume the offer to hold the door is still good?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Oh, fine," huffs Addy, swallowing the rest of her drink, patting Lazarus on the head, and stalking towards the door. "I'm full anyway, so I may as well come back with you."

[nonbird]

"No one has done that to me since I was thirteen," Lazarus remarks.

[edgeofyourseat]

Alice ruffles his hair.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Addy boops his nose. "I can't imagine why," she says.

The door is open and all may pass!

The Golden Coven is in Forks this week. It is raining, and Addy's door leads to the outdoors. She does not apologize for this.

[edgeofyourseat]

Alice wishes up an umbrella and hands it to Bella, then wanders off into the bar.

[self_composed]

"Love you," Bella calls over her shoulder, and out she goes with everyone else.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Addy lets them all out, shuts the door behind her, and then opens it up again. "The Forks capital," she says. "Also, the only place in the world where random people in town mostly know who and what we are."

[nonbird]

"Also, magic," says Lazarus.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Yes, a fair amount of it. Pretty, no?" says Addy, like she's personally responsible for all resident witches.

[nonbird]

"Extremely," he beams. "Oh, that must be your Empress. Like ours, but... witchier."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Yes," Addy says, peering speculatively at Lazarus, "turning into a vampire often does that. The only effect we know to be down to her turning is that she's immune to Marcus and wasn't before, but since her transformation she's also acquired other features, which could have been accessible before or not, we don't know."

[nonbird]

"Will she mind if I sit nearby and stare at her power a lot?" he inquires. "I can be very quiet."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"She'd prefer it if you weren't very quiet, and reported on what you found," Addy laughs. "She's curious."

[nonbird]

"Hopefully she is also very patient," he says, "because getting coherent descriptions out of me can be a bit of a trial."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"She might haul me in," Addy shrugs, "and see if I can help, but I don't imagine that will be a serious problem."

[nonbird]

"I'm not sure you'll be any better at it," he says. "At least I have practice."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Sometimes I am better at things," Addy shrugs. "Especially compared to humans. A number of powers benefit from the brain speed, or the capacity, or the memory payload even. And besides, I can taste at once how they work. I was able to tell your friend something she didn't know." She nods at Chris. "Oh, the wolf village is through a tunnel that way, if that's where you're going," she adds, looking at Orfeo and Chris and wrinkling her nose. "There are signs."

[nonbird]

"My power is still me-shaped even when you're borrowing it," he says. "If you're better at it than me anyway, I think I want to be a vampire."

[dont_look_back]

"I know where the wolf village is, Addy," says Orfeo mildly. He turns to Libby and Chris. "Want to see this one or follow these guys around?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"I was better at Elspeth than Elspeth for a while because of memory payload," Addy says, ticking off fingers, "I knew more than the wolf who needs a haircut over there when I borrowed her because I could taste it, I did something with Jasper's power once that he could've done but never imagined, I was better than Pera till she turned because I was faster or I couldn't've caught her, and before Vasanti turned I was better than her because I could pay attention to possessed animals and myself at the same time." Addy shrugs.

[prima_sequentem]

"Village," Libby decides.

[nonbird]

"Can you taste anything about my power that I don't already know?"