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[talentedscavenger]

If anyone has been contacted by Poe Dameron about being turned into a bird...

He is fine. He is well. For the time being. [deleted]

I'm taking care of it...

And I truly do apologize for his...excitement, for lack of a better term.

If anyone is upset, just contact me directly.


Thank you.

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[wingedman]

No, but I've picked up some new skills since I got here.

...yeah, I don't blame you. Honestly, I thought it was weird at first, but when you start hanging out with a sorcerer who eats demon squid, you sort of learn to readjust your idea of normal. Being here is one hell of an education, that's for sure.

[talentedscavenger]

What sort of skills?

[Force related skills? Or something she may or may not be able to use?]

I'm afraid I lost you at 'eats demon squid.' There's someone here who actually does that? How or where would you get demon squid? [So many questions.]

Being here is very different from my world, and from Jakku, that we can agree on.

You...didn't asked to be turned into anything else after that, did you?

[wingedman]

...the kind where you wake up one morning and can telepathically communicate with birds.

I don't ask him where he gets them from. For all I know, he's got a portal to demon-squid land in the fridge where they stay. Which has to be chained up so the demon squid don't escape. And they smell awful when you cook them, and I'm assured they taste even worse. It's some weird kind of magic thing.

Not yet.

[Sorry, Rey, Sam's just as crazy as the rest of them.]

[talentedscavenger]

You can communicate with birds? Telepathically? Are you able to do that..with people?

[Because she does not need someone else in her head. She doesn't need someone accidentally getting into her mind and poking around there. And who granted him those powers? Was it done by the Force?]

That...somewhat makes sense? I'm assuming the demon squid haven't escaped yet, which is a good thing...

You...want to be turned into something? Again? Is magic that addicting?

[wingedman]

Just birds. Actually, not all birds, but I'm getting better at it over time. First it was just the biggest ones, and now I'm sort of working my way down to the smaller ones. Still can't manage anything smaller than a crow.

No, but there's a flamethrower in the kitchen in case they do.

[Is he serious? Sadly, yes.]

It's not the magic as much as it is the experience of being something else. Like being able to fly unaided, or having a dog's sense of smell. It's not something I'd do all the time, but just once or twice is pretty interesting.

[talentedscavenger]

So if I need the help of catching a bird...you could easily call it over. [She's bright, really she is. Just on technology and not things like people being able to communicate with animals.]

How were you able to get a flame thrower? On second, never mind.

I can understand...sort of. Poe loves flying, and he's one of the best pilots in the galaxy. I love it too, but I don't think I would want to become something else to do it. A lot of things could go wrong, and what if you wind up stuck like a creature forever? Then what?

[wingedman]

A larger bird. I'm still kind of working on smaller birds, they aren't as intelligent.

Well, I figure there are enough magic-users here that someone's got to be able to reverse it if something happens. I trust them enough to believe that they wouldn't use a spell that could go completely haywire - I'm not saying that mistakes don't happen, but I'm not going to let just anyone on the street turn me into something, either. Just the people who I know can pull that kind of thing off.

Which sounds so weird, because there isn't magic where I'm from, either, and now I'm just...hanging out with sorcerers all the time.

[talentedscavenger]

What would a bird even think about? Food and shelter?

There's a difference between you trusting them, and me trusting them. I'm not saying the magic users here are incapable of helping, but I am wary, especially with someone I don't know. I think that's what I'm more upset with, having to ask for help from someone I don't know if something had happened to Poe.

Magic isn't something that's in my world at all, so it's sometimes hard to wrap my head around it. If there are rules, what can and cannot be done, those things.

If you don't mind me asking, what is in your world then?