[Look, at least he's actually half-answering instead of his usual deflection! That's progress! Down the trail Add will have to limp, though, while Ain leads the way to the tailor shop. Thank goodness it happened to be nearby... he would've (should've) taken Add to the bakery but then they'd have to dodge bunnies, and there's the chance that Ezell or Flamebringer are in the adjacent rooms, and also Ain has not cleaned his of the "Ydalir I miss my friends :(" plushies oops. So they're not doing that!
They will instead go to the small-ish shop, where the mannequins do not have heads (Ain removed them after a prior incident where they came to life and started attacking him, thank you Suri so much for that one) and the dressforms sport half-completed outfits that he's clearly having art block about.
Surprise: the scan reveals that the wings, the strange "halo" at the back of his head, and the tangled green ribbonlike "secondary" tail wrapped around the white-scaled dragon one are, in fact, just raw El Energy. The rest is all a foreign magic... and Ain's overall amount of El Energy is surprisingly low, like it was after Rigomor when the portal activated and he hit the damn deck.
He's oblivious to this scan even taking place as he locks the door behind them and flips the sign to "CLOSED", Dachie padding around the corner and seeing Add and owldog-screeching at him. He steps closer and bonks Add in the non-injured leg with his forehead.
Hi. :) ]
Sit down, and let me look at your leg.
[And if Add doesn't sit in the one dinky wooden chair Ain has in here, he will butt the thing against the backs of Add's knees until they buckle. Sit! Down!]
The long and the short of the situation is... [Crouching down, getting a look at that wound,] this isn't Elrios, or the Demon Realm, and is a separate location entirely. There are people from other worlds entirely here. I've been here since... May, so almost an entire year. You're the first person to show up that I actually know.
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They will instead go to the small-ish shop, where the mannequins do not have heads (Ain removed them after a prior incident where they came to life and started attacking him, thank you Suri so much for that one) and the dressforms sport half-completed outfits that he's clearly having art block about.
Surprise: the scan reveals that the wings, the strange "halo" at the back of his head, and the tangled green ribbonlike "secondary" tail wrapped around the white-scaled dragon one are, in fact, just raw El Energy. The rest is all a foreign magic... and Ain's overall amount of El Energy is surprisingly low, like it was after Rigomor when the portal activated and he hit the damn deck.
He's oblivious to this scan even taking place as he locks the door behind them and flips the sign to "CLOSED", Dachie padding around the corner and seeing Add and owldog-screeching at him. He steps closer and bonks Add in the non-injured leg with his forehead.
Hi. :) ]
Sit down, and let me look at your leg.
[And if Add doesn't sit in the one dinky wooden chair Ain has in here, he will butt the thing against the backs of Add's knees until they buckle. Sit! Down!]
The long and the short of the situation is... [Crouching down, getting a look at that wound,] this isn't Elrios, or the Demon Realm, and is a separate location entirely. There are people from other worlds entirely here. I've been here since... May, so almost an entire year. You're the first person to show up that I actually know.
Are you with me so far?