Wizard has been displaced

[phoenixwiz]

Open/locked?: Open
Who: Harry and You
What: Harry has been displaced across the multiverse AGAIN
Warnings: Tons of disorientation and confusion; Will update if something comes up

So this is it: he is about to return home after helping out in saving Avalon and the world from being frozen in time for nearly two years. And he does miss home so much that once Excalibur has been destroyed and time and the multiverse has been saved, he thought that now is the time to go back and rest up from a long endgame fight with a cursed sword. As much as he wants to stay here, he has a mess of a battle aftermath to clean up, a destroyed school to come to, friends who are missing him badly now, and a community that needs to rebuild itself. The situation his world is in is not that great but he does need to go back and help in the repairs soon.

Or that is what he thought how that day would end because he soon finds himself being transported into a very unfamiliar place. For the second time in his life, Harry has been very much displaced across the multiverse again. He takes a look around to see if he has everything from Avalon with him. Relief settles in when he finds that Hedwig in her cage is there, and much to his own surprise, even Rose too. Wait a minute, he thought that he had tried to say goodbye to her in Avalon so seeing the little pink Pygmy Puff is a big surprise to him. Then he turns to find that his polearm had become very padded and his phone from Avalon didn’t work as at all. So he can’t be able to call King Arthur for help anytime soon.

But the most confusing thing he has stumbled upon to date happens to be the giant and grand scale of the castle before him. He knows that castles can be big in space like with Hogwarts Castle but this one has to take the cake. And it is a lot more beautiful than what Hogwarts is currently at, whoever did the maintance work sure does put a lot of effort to make it super pristine as it can be. But all he can muster to say at this time as he looks more confused by his new situation is “Where in the world I am in now?”

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[souls_of_roles]

"Let's go find her then!" she said, grabbing his hand and racing off for the roses. Sh'd chck th kitchen next if Malia wasn't with her flowers.

[phoenixwiz]

“Oh good, that’s really brill - Whoa!” Harry didn’t get the check to catch his breath when Kyoko takes his hand and leads him to the gardens where her fairy friend is at.

He doesn’t even have time to ask her where they are heading to, but he has gotten used to Kyoko’s energetic eagerness by now that it doesn’t give him so much grief.

[queen_butterfly]

She wasn't in immediate view in the garden, as she wasn't down on the ground level. But if one looked up....

There was a dark shape perched up high, on the edge of the rooftop overlooking it. It might've been a shadow, but if so, there wasn't anything over it which ought to be casting it. On closer inspection, it looked as though someone was relaxing lying down, perhaps even actually taking a nap up there, almost out of view, dressed in dark black, equally dark hair twisted up behind her head into two low points. It was hard to make out, since really it was only one of her arms and the top of her head visible as she used the former as a makeshift pillow for the latter.

There was something a little off about the sight, though, that might have drawn their attention up to it -- that the shadows on the wall were a bit too dark to be quite right, moreso as they neared her. It was almost as if the darkness were subtly trying to guide their eyes up to where she'd hidden herself away.

Which was ridiculous; shadows didn't point toward her. What a ridiculous notion! ...She was merely stealing the sunlight, that was all. The faint little hint of cool air that fell away from that perch of hers was a simple matter of physics and temperature differences, nothing out of the ordinary....

[souls_of_roles]

Kyoko skidded to a stop at the roses and looked around for hr fairy friend. "MALLIA?!" she called, and she was not quiet. "MALLIIIAAAAAAAAAA!"

[phoenixwiz]

Right within Malia’s sight, a young brunet man sheepishly waves at her, not sure how she will react to him. His clothes don’t even scream interesting enough with just a henley style shirt, hooded jacket, jeans and sneakers. He also has a pink ball of fluff and a snow white owl who looks like she has a forever neutral resting face, not to mention the obviously padded polearm he has on hand.

“Oh, um, hi!” Harry squeaks as he greets her, “I’m a friend of Kyoko’s from another world. How are you today?”

[queen_butterfly]

She lifted her head quickly enough when yelled for, blinking, eyes owlishly wide for a moment, and then looked down to Harry, settling on giving him a bit of a smile. "I'm well enough."

She moved, and it was hard to tell if she actually pulled herself forward over the edge, or if she'd managed to swing herself around to go down feet-first, but it hardly mattered; her dress obscured everything anyway as she came down, landing with far too little sound as she stood back upright and stepped around the foliage. She gave Kyoko a sort of nod in greeting and a smile, and then turned her attention to the newcomer. "And yourself? I don't believe I caught sight of you earlier in the dining hall... Have you eaten?"

Kyoko might well not have been kidding, about her at least not being human; her eyes looked a little odd, dark purple irises bigger than a normal human's, and her ears were ever so subtly pointed.... Other than that, she seemed ordinary enough. Possibly. Ignoring the nonsense with the shadows, which had now quit said nonsense, and how she got down from her spot up there a few seconds ago....

[souls_of_roles]

"Mallia can make food - WITH MAGIC!" Kyoko squealed, dancing in place happily.

[phoenixwiz]

“I just got here from my previous trip to another world before this. I don’t think that I have eaten anything in a while,” Harry admits to Mallia, “Although I think that both Rose and Hedwig are more hungry than me.”

[queen_butterfly]

"Mm, well... let's see...."

She glanced aside, and gestured, and maybe she'd been holding that black cloth a second ago? It could have been lost from view in the drape of her outer sleeve, right? But even if she had been, there was no way to explain how it fell neatly over a little round tabletop that certainly hadn't existed there a moment ago. In fact, it may still not exist there; there didn't seem to be table legs sticking out from under the makeshift tablecloth.

"Well, I can think of something offhand I can do for this owl," she said, waving a hand in front of a bowl with a good few already-shelled and halved hard-boiled eggs that definitely hadn't just been there before, as though passing a hand over it was what made it visible. Which was probably the case, actually....

She didn't stop at the bowl of eggs, though. Another handwave, and more dishes appeared, ones with assortments of fresh fruits, bread, a few spreads for the latter... "And you, what's your preference? Sweet? Savory?" She made a small pie with dark fruit filling visible in the holes in the crust appear, and an omelet made with what looked like yellow meringue, with cheese and vegetables... bowls with different kinds of soup and pasta and even a plate of different kinds of cookies... a few different bottles and pitchers, wines and water and probably milk, and a pair of cups near them....

She looked back to Harry, her smile slightly sheepish. "I'm not certain what the other eats, though.... I don't suppose you could tell me?"

Judging by the way she gestured to the table and glanced back to Kyoko, the young lady was invited to join in as well, if she so wanted. Maybe that was why she'd put out enough food for at least half a dozen to have their fill?

[souls_of_roles]

Kyoko was beaming so bright she looked about to go supernova. "ISN'T SHE AMAZING?!" she asked, bouncing. "I wouldn't have been able to afford even a tenth of this back home! Faeries are really wonderful! They can fix anything. Well, any problems we mere mortals have!"

[phoenixwiz]

“I think that I might be looking for both sweet and savory right now,” he replies to her question, “The cookies and eggs are going to be a good treat after surviving an encounter with a powerful sword. Hedwig likes something a little more meaty. Maybe you can try to conjure something owls can eat like small rodents.”

Rose soon begins to happily munch on the food that Mallia has conjured up to her heart’s content as soon as he drops her off on the table. Harry is impressed, he hasn’t seen fae magic this impressive since his time in Avalon. The Fae of Avalon should be taking notes from her.

“Oh yeah. She sure has a great use of magic.”

[queen_butterfly]

Mallia nodded, noted the little pink one going after the other dishes, and eyed the bowl of eggs... well, she knew owls were carnivorous, but that's precisely where her problem with providing this was, unfortunately. Just because owls didn't eat boiled eggs in the wild, well... she'd hoped, but if it wouldn't do....

A silent sigh, putting one loosely-closed hand up to her lower lip as she thought it over. "I've never eaten rodents, though. I'd have no idea how they ought to taste." Nor, realistically, any confidence to speak of that this bird would be able to directly steer her magic toward giving it the taste it expected. It was a feat for humans, as it was, enough so that it was nearly unheard-of....

"But... I wonder...." It was barely a murmur to herself, as she focused on something in her other hand, opening it carefully... and then held it out for Hedwig in offering. What was it, a smallish crustacean? A fat green body, maybe two inches at its widest, with a couple skinny, short little legs... it might have looked familiar, but it was hard to say. It wasn't flat enough to be a crab, nor did it look to have any pinchers or other natural weapons. And it was about half translucent... but perhaps it would appeal to the fluffy raptor? It wasn't a rodent, for that kind of meat, and it would certainly prove soft enough to manage, if it tried....

[souls_of_roles]

"Whoa, is that some kind of fairy creature?" she asked Mallia, eyes sparkling. If they weren't all carful she might try to adopt it.

[phoenixwiz]

Hedwig looks at the crustacean very inquisitively. She hasn’t seen anything like it before but she is never the one to waste food a lot, especially if she is being offered one.

While she is normally fine with hunting her own meals, she greatly accepts this offer from Mallia with a gracious heart. Rose meanwhile continues to munch on some of the other food (rodents and rodent like creatures have big appetites, so she will be fine taking in so much food) while Harry picks up some cookies and eats them.

“Well, Hedwig thinks that the crustacean will be good enough for her. She accepts it,” he speaks to her on the owl’s behalf.

[queen_butterfly]

She gave the owl a nod, and with a small gesture, set down a little bowl of the green creatures for the owl to have her fill from. "I'm glad I could figure out something, at least," she said, smiling faintly. "Honestly, I barely remember those, but it's probably the closest I can come up with. Or want to, to be honest." Her nose may have wrinkled just slightly, if anyone were watching carefully enough to see.

Finally, she looked back to Kyoko. "And poppet, I'm afraid I'm becoming less and less convinced you're using that word the same way I or those like me would."

[souls_of_roles]

"You're a fairy, it is a creature you created, from your world. Thus a fairy creature!" she logiced happily.

[phoenixwiz]

Hedwig doesn’t seem to pay attention to Kyoko’s over eagerness as she digs into the bowl of green crustaceans while Harry couldn’t hide any attempts of giggling while biting onto the cookies. He can see why Kyoko is always in awe of fairy magic everyday: there is never a boring day when magic is being made.

[queen_butterfly]

"It's a common plant-pest," she corrected her, "albeit rather larger than I've ever encountered them in nature. And I'm still uncertain how you knew I'd been born an insect myself from first sight of me." She suspected she hadn't, based on how she was using the word and all, but perhaps Kyoko would surprise her and take a hint about its actual meaning. Or maybe this friend of hers would?

She turned to him, mostly succeeding in keeping a straight face despite her amusement, her smile mostly only hinting in her eyes. "What would you have guessed I am, had you met me without foreknowledge or introduction, pray tell?" She lifted her hands up a bit and apart, in what wasn't quite a gesture of exasperation or surrender, or perhaps simply holding her sleeves aside so he could see her properly... a mix of all of the above, maybe?

[souls_of_roles]

"I never thought you were an insect! I always knew you were a fairy though! You'r so pretty, and your proportions are inhuman," she said as if that was a great compliment. Of course, this being Kyoko she didn't mean the proportions someone else might have meant... "The distance between your eyes, the length of forearm compared to upper arm, the muscles that connect everything," she babbled happily. Look, she identified Ren based on his proportions from her internal Tsuruga scale that came from making so many dolls of him. She saw people so weirdly. "No one human could be formed like that! The only one who comes close that I ever met is part fairy, though he doesn’t know it yet! I wanna be there when he finds out!" she said, bouncing. "Besides, you glow and shine like magic. Of course you're a fairy!"

[phoenixwiz]

“Oh gee, if I had to make some good guesses. I thought that you might be a beautiful human like fairy or nature spirit,” Harry admits to Mallia as he tries not to get distracted by Kyoko’s excitement, “Apparently in where I'm from, most depictions of fairies and nature spirits aren’t too different from humans and wizards alike.”

[queen_butterfly]

She couldn't help herself; she had to laugh at all this. She even brought a hand up to her face to hide it some, and after a good moment moved it, seeming to be wiping away hints of tears, taking a breath. "Elf. The word you're looking for is elf," she said, looking between the two of them. "Those are your kind's relatives. Fairies are butterflies."

[souls_of_roles]

"I've never met an Elf... But I met Corn, and I met you! Faeries!"

[phoenixwiz]

“Say Kyoko. Have you found Corn in here so far? I’m not sure if I was able to spot him in campus today?” Harry asks her before he turns his attention to Mallia.

“Oh right! Elves: That’s definitely what I have been thinking of, I can’t seem to get their name out of the top of my mind immediately but thank you for pointing it out to me, Mallia. Elves are quite a fascinating kind; for the longest time I initially thought that they only exist in fiction but I’m starting to think that elves could be more real than I can imagine.”

[queen_butterfly]

Mallia shook her head. "I was raised by them. That's why I took after them, to blend in better, when I came up with my larger form here. I look nothing like a--" She paused midsentence, seemingly only just now registering that here she was trying to explain, when she could instead simply....

...She waved her hand, gesturing to the top of the fruit bowl she'd set out, and tried to keep a half-straight face as she watched their reactions. "That," she said, "is what fairies look like. Not this." A vague gesture toward herself again. See? Big difference here, you two!

And now that she'd drawn their attention to the fruit bowl, they'd be able to make out the shapes that were playing around among the bits of produce: she really hadn't been kidding, in saying that they were butterflies. They varied greatly in color and pattern, and even in wing shape, but they were indeed otherwise much like the common, fluttery insects. Ones that seemed to push themselves more or less upright on their four hind legs, the fur on their thighs and abdomens blending together to make several of them look quite a lot like they were wearing little dresses of sorts, while they used their front arms as... well, as arms, reaching forward to grab a small berry and roll it around, or preen themselves off. They looked vaguely a bit more humanoid than a normal butterfly would tend to; perhaps it was their heads' shape, their fur sticking up in back like a tiny updo, with tiny faces that had large eyes and mouths that they'd open, to suck on their fingers as they preened themselves or chewed on fruit....

Didn't real butterflies have more of a curly straw for a mouth, not a biting-type one? Because these were definitely built for biting, as one of them was already proving with a little red ball from a raspberry. Maybe they weren't truly butterflies, at least of the usual kinds?

[souls_of_roles]

"But you made yourself look like that! So Faeries can look however they want to look. Like you and Corn an..." something skidded to a screeching halt as she turned to face Harry. "YOU THINK YOU SAW CORN MAYBE?!"

There are what seem to be a whole host of actual faeries here. And normally that would have her full attention. Harry, however, had mentioned one of the few things stronger for her. One very specific Fairy.

Corn.