driftfleet | Bishop Mingle!

[laughing a little]

Show me some things you can do! I'm just human, this stuff's all new to me.

Oh, okay! I, um... Well, I've got a super-secret fairy form, but I don't know if I can show it to you... It tends to really freak out normal people for some reason. Magic is weird.

[she taps her chin for a second. thinking. she can also... talk to things? but Hiro couldn't hear them talk back, so it'd be really boring... she can dislocate all of her bones? but that... creeps out other fairies, so poor Hiro would be pretty uncomfortable...]

...Okay. Let me just set up a little bunk and I'll do something cool.

[here, she'll go back to those hanging herbs and pick some flowers off the stalks. and pick up a couple of the cleaner bones. and come back to start putting things down in a pattern on the floor.]

Sounds good.

[And he's just gonna wait, watch what she's doing, try to guess... But of course, he has absolutely no idea.]

Right now I'm just, um, doing this so that I don't have to burn up my energy to cast the spell. It's kind of like... In a videogame, when you have an MP bar? Bad things happen if it gets too low, but the MP cost is like, cut in half if I take an extra turn to do this...

[...Krista you goddamn nerd.]

Oh! And I usually don't do so good around mechanical stuff, but everything you've been building has been really nice. I think because it's so creative...

[okay. flowers are in order. bones are arranged. she holds her hands out over the circle, the flowers begin to wither, and--fwoom! a sizable fire suddenly appears, floating over her hands.]

Heeey, there we go.

[oh my god you just gave him the best compliment ever. he's just beaming here--and then there's fire holy shit]

Wh-whoa, that is awesome!

[he's kind of laughing incredulously while he talks.]

[his laughter is contagious. the fire looks really nice, since it's magical... and she lifts it up to show that it's not going anywhere without her.]

I was so freaked out when I first found out I could do this. I like, accidentally made all this water come out of nowhere and I had to make up a story to my roommate about why there were puddles all over the floor...

[he is absolutely amazed]

Oh, man, how long did it take you to figure out you could do it?

Um... I started figuring it out just a couple years ago, and then... Well, it took me about a month to figure out how to stuff like this and not accidentally set myself on fire? And I'm still practicing how to do the really big stuff. It usually works...

[because fire is apparently not the big stuff?]

Uh, fire's not the big stuff?

[guess who wants to know that exact thing.]

Haha, no sir. Here, we'll just...

[there's no fancy ritual this time. she just pours a little glamour into it, and... the fire flutters off in all directions, turning blue and green--butterflies, actual living butterflies, all fluttering harmlessly up towards the top of the volcano.

she watches them go, putting her hands down.]

Yep. That one was cool.

[W H A T

[THAT WAS SO COOL!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!! LOOK AT THIS FACE!!!!!!!!!]

Krista, that was amazing!!

[s-she blushes a little! she actually brings her hands up to cover her face a little...]

I'm so happy you think so, oh my god... Ugh, you're making me blush...

I'm sorry, but that was just... out of this world. You are so cool.

[she makes this... happy little noise. ugh, this is all she wants to hear. this is the kind of attention she would kill for. someone to just say that she's awesome for the stuff that she's actually really proud of.]

So, okay. Secret true story: the beanbags in the library aren't really beanbags. They're extra crates that I enchanted to seem like beanbags.

[hiro will say it until he's blue in the face.]

... What. What. What's in them?!

The crates? I, uh... Actually, nothing, I think. They're just crates. That look and feel like beanbags. I mean if you punched a beanbag there'd still be beans everywhere because that's how the magic works, but...

[--suddenly this is weird to explain.]

...I've found it's, uh, easier if you don't think about it too hard.

... Alright. Alright, that's fair. You still magicked the crates, that's the point here. That is sick.

...So when they suddenly turn back to crates in a couple of weeks... No one get weirded out...

[she nods a little... to herself. she really should have mentioned all this earlier.]

So, I'm pretty sure that with your tech and my magic, we are officially the hypest ship in the fleet.

There is nothing in this fleet that is going to be able to stand up to the Bishop.

Sweeeet. Fistbump.

[holds up her fist. COME ON LITTLE DUDE.]

[BLESS YOU FOR BEING LITERALLY THE FIRST PERSON TO NOT QUESTION "SICK" AS AN EXPRESSION HERE AND NOW YOU ARE OFFERING A FISTBUMP

[i hope you're ready for the explosion because he's fuckin doing it and he's going full-body with it like you blew his damn arm off]

Whoa... [her explosion was so small in comparison she wasn't expecting that crazy goodness.] Man, you went like, all the way to Neptune with that one.

[he shrugs, and he's grinning]

Well, Captain, you'll be glad to know that your engineer doesn't see the point in doing anything halfway.

Oh, speaking of that...

[she reaches for him and... pats a hand down on that big head of his.]

You need to cool your jets. You're gonna fry your brain if you keep working so hard.

[there's so much hair there, her hand sinks a little.]

You know, I've heard that's something I should look into.

Bishop Mingle!

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