UN: ScielCandide | Video

[cache_coeur]

[The camera is fixed on a table, upon which sits a neat stack of cards –– black with gold foil in the shape of a sun and moon bisecting each other. The user’s hands pass over the deck and spreads it wide into an arc. Her hands are tanned, with two rings on her ring finger and one on her index finger, and she has so many colourful braided bracelets that some wind around her palm.

Her voice is pleasant, playful, French, a little theatrical:]

Bonsoir, mes amies!

Tonight and tonight only, I will tell your fortune with a single card. Tell me your name, and if you would like to hear about love, money, health or the soul.

If it moves you, you must repay me with an amusing anecdote about yourself.

Ready to play?

Comments

[welcome_summer]

No? Familiars are just animal companions but... enhanced. They're associated with witches and wizards.

[Mayuko hums thoughtfully.]

One of the testing grounds for potential Etrayans was a magic library managed by wizards. Not part of an ongoing mission, just here in Etraya. Those wizards gave the newcomers a familiar to help them navigate the library.

Granted, the existing residents had gotten pets the previous month for the year-end holiday. From a person, as far as I know, not a being like Aurora. So maybe they didn't want the newcomers to feel left out.

[cache_coeur]

[Oh, Lune will love that library. Maybe not so much the magic part of it, but any library is good for someone like her.

Sciel considers this, though.]

Sounds like a tremendous number of creatures to keep for… mostly the fun of it, it sounds?

[welcome_summer]

It kind of cascaded from just the cat, to be honest. But they are keeping me busy!

[A pause, then:]

I suppose if you're looking for an anecdote, I've got one in mind?

[cache_coeur]

Plenty of time to fill here, anyway. And yes, absolutely –– I’d love to hear.

[welcome_summer]

Wonderful. Well, I have to preface by saying, this isn't the first place that's snatched me from home. One of the tricks this other place pulled was turning people into animals. POOF, all of a sudden. You went to bed a human, woke up as something else. Now, can you guess what I got turned into?

[cache_coeur]

Not a clue, but given your little menagerie, I’m guessing some sort of cat or bird!

Was the other place like this one?

[Is it possible to have to win your world back twice?]

[welcome_summer]

Oh, no, those would have been fun, but it was a lot bigger than that. A lot bigger!

It was similar in that we couldn't leave without the Director's say-so, but there weren't missions. There were about three times as many people as in Etraya, and not so much acreage.