“Do the spells have to be read or chanted in the old language?” Yessei furrows her brows. “Has anyone tried translating the spells? It seems like a stupid question but…” she shrugs. “I don’t know. I didn’t know until recently that, where I’m from, spells don’t actually have to be said. The words just help channel magic. Like a mantra.” She mumbles something about understanding why the portal spell meant please open a door
How tall is Hailey again? Wasn’t she on the tall side, like 5’ 10" or something?
Anways, Dak Phai grins and coos. “Aww, you just want snuggles, come here.” And she wraps one big, brown wing around her and reaches up? to give her head scratches
“She asked, does Denzel yap a lot, or are they just loud,” Ansi repeats to Stardust’s embarrassment.
6 ft even, tall golden Amazonian woman to be climbed
The clone seems to enjoy the head scratches. Her hair is super freaky soft and curly, just like petting a baby lamb. Sheep afro!
Hailey realizes that she’s not a good lip-reader and pulls the headphones out. “One more time.”
“I bring the muscle!” Denzel laughs loudly as he enters the room with his skinny arms on his hips.
To give you a reminder, he’s like 5’6", looks to be a cross between black and Asian with lighter skin and hazel eyes, braces, acne, and on the very slender side. Oh, and dark red hair (more orange actually) cut really low like a fade.
She honestly is a pretty good clone, just kinda babbles like a toddler because there’s nothing up there lol.
“It takes more blood to get a functioning one, and I didn’t really want to pass out,” the original chuckles.
If only any of them were small and adorable, Denzel would have an instant crush, haha.
Denzel offers his hand and gives them a gentle shake. “Awesome. Are you all volunteering?” He’s not at all weirded out about their non-human parts, haha.
“Makes sense.” She nods. “I didn’t know there was such a thing as blood magic. Yessei’s like, the most powerful witch I know! I don’t think she’s used her blood for magic before.” She shrugs. “So, the clone lasts until you stop bleeding?”
ooh I don’t have any super small/adorable characters but Yennei’s on the short side by virtue of being young for a vamp (like 40-45, but like 14 or so in human years).
“Yeah, I guess so.” Ansi shrugs. “Are you one of the students?”
Stardust shrugs and adds. “I just walked in here. I figured I’d help since I had nothing better to do.”
“Yep.” She nodded, impressed that she seemed to have figured it out. “This one’s super cuddly though, kinda adorable.” She rubbed behind her clone’s ear and picks up a few planks to help put down new flooring.
Does she look adorable or terrifying tho? XD
“Thanks! The more the merrier,” Denzel chuckles some.
“Yeah, yeah, that’s what a sucker would say!”
“And in comes more chaos.” Hailey pops her earbud back in when she heard Dee’s voice.
losing my MIND rn because I could’ve sworn Dak Phai was here when Stardust asked about clone magic. can’t find the post tho. if i’ve really lost my mind, it’s for sure an accidental god-mode, so sorry! Dak Phai might be just curious enough to notice a bleeding cut but
Anyways… “Yeah, for sure,” Dak Phai chuckles. “I’ll have to get some pointers from you later about how it works.”
man we’ll have to have a party once everyone’s here lol
“Hey, Pha Phâi, don’t you have some kind of crazy device that would… I don’t know, fix this whole thing up in one go?” Ansi’s finally gotten to work and is moving lumber, too.
“Uhh, no? I wish I were smart enough to make a house-fixer-inator.” Dak Phai shrugs.
“Don’t you have limb-enhancers,” Stardust mentions. She tries to help Ansi carry a beam, but she’s clearly not helping at all lol. When she notices Dee, she introduces herself and sticks out a hand.
“Oh, yeah!” Dak Phai releases clone!Hailey from head rubs. “Sorry, I’ll be right back!” She closes her eyes and whispers, “Kátus géshovā kátjur nága” three times before she goes poof!
i swear you said she was there… we’re in the mandela effect…
“No problem.” Hailey starts to grab some nails and a hammer.
lol I’m stoppiing at Dee. I don’t wanna control a bunch of characters rn lol
“What just happened?!” Denzel jumps back in weakling surprise at her going missing XD.
Dee shakes Stardust’s hand and asks if she’s Hailey’s sister or something XD. “It’s the antannae, they give you away. What are you, part praying mantis?” She eats a roll and munches happily. “No offense, I’m part panda.” She shrugs again.
“Yeah, she’s gone for good.” Ansi shrugs in Denzel’s direction. “So sad. She was so young…”
And poof! she’s back, wings and arms outstretched. Her arms and wings are covered in thin strips of metal and her hands are encased in stainless steel gloves. “Alright, let’s get it…” and she gets back to work lol.
Ansi rolls her eyes.
Stardust just blinks and tilts her head. “No, I’m not Hailey’s sister. I’m kijezu. What’s a panda?”
Denzel looks surprised. “Woah! Safety first! Was that magic?” He follows behind her and ignored the extra Hailey to totally try to rub against metal wings.
“But you have purple eyes and clearly aren’t fully human.” Dee rolls up her sleeves and adjusts her glasses…
“Most of the spells in the old language have to be read that I can remember, yeah,” Stardust nods.
Przygoda returns with the book.
Why does the extra Hailey make me want an extra Casus–but like he was created from a portal or something-
Anyway, Amethyst also kind of wants to pat the clone’s head, but she hangs back since she isn’t sure if the clone would like that without coming up to her-
“Oh, I thought that was a joke-” Pearl says.
“Ooh! Friends?” Dot yips excitedly.
Pearl can see Dot’s excitement so she’s gonna give him to CeBella and also be a bit nervous because why not-
Also totally didn’t forget about the others at all, no why would I do that-
“Ah…no, where I just came from is another world we found after most of us reunited,” Isaac explains.
“25,” Jacob answers please tell me I calculated that correctly for how young or old a character is who’s average is 100-
lol Dak Phai is happy to oblige clone!Hailey’s wing-rubs lol. “I mean, I made sure it was safe,” she explains. “Simple teleporting spell. Yessei taught it to me. Stardust is the one who can actually sense magic.” She shrugs, discretely moving her wing closer to Amethyst .
“You mean, like the people from Universe XV?” She shakes her head. “No, I’m not human at all.” She whips her head around and her antennae go flying when she hears Dak Phai say she can sense magic. “Not so loud! Shh!”
no, I don’t think so–plus I totally forgot if you did lol
“Remind me again,” Yessei begins, reaching for the book. “Can either of you read the Old Language? Or is it one of those situations where nobody can read it any more?”
Based on what I understand from the discussion context, the question was “is 25 a reasonable age for an elf (average lifespan 100 years) to be a parent?”
The worldwide average age for parenthood is 29, and the average lifespan is 71. By my estimations, the average age of parenthood for a population with a lifespan of 100 would be about 41.
That being said, I estimate a standard deviation to be about ~20 years, so becoming a parent at 25 would not be abnormal – about 34% of parents would (by this model) become parents between the ages of 20-41.
I’m assuming a normal distribution with mean=29 * 100/71 and variance = 0.5 * 29 * 100/71.
Also, it’s a known population trend that, as society becomes more developed and industrial, parenthood rates decrease and the average parent age goes up.
Hope this helps! Tl;dr: no, it’s not unreasonable.
chaos!!! lol i say do it XD then she can have another chance at failing to flirt with him lol
Clone Hailey approaches while rubbing wings… Now she only needs a handful of seasoning lol.
lol i’m lazy, so she’ kinda chubby, darker skinned, blue and green eyes like a pretty stone with hints of yellow, tortoise shell glasses, black hair she usually keeps in pigtails or something.
“Woah, really? That’s super cool.” Dee nods. “So, you’re psychic, then?”
Denzel is also now petting wings because he’s easily distracted lol. Hailey and Mr. Raven are working horses, moving things, haha.
lol
CeBella happily snatches the cute creature.
“Well, I guess that takes care of that.” Lockie nods.
starts playing Reunited and it feels so good! lol
“Oh, woah! That’s young. I’m in my three-hundreds.”
“Okay, okay, everyone can have feathers when I’m done,” Dak Phai declares. “I’ve got to get back to work.” She folds her wings up and follows along with Hailey and Mr. Raven.
got it
Stardust huffs. “It’s more complicated than that.”
“It’s not more complicated than that,” Ansi interjects from the other side of the room.
Stardust rolls her eyes. “Well, I can’t read minds or make objects move without touching them,” she explains. “I can sense the presence of magic, and sometimes I’ll get visions of the future–usually in my sleep.” She shrugs.
Dak Phai stares, stunned and wide-eyed for just a moment. “Wow. You know, I expected something less climactic,” she admits. “I-is that how that always goes?”
Stardust taps the base of her antennae. “It’s biological – can’t really help it,” she adds. “And, I’ll be honest, I’m not super bonded with Hailey? Like, she’s funny, but she’s just someone who led me here when I was lost in the woods.” She shrugs, following Dee.
Hailey nods. “Pretty much.” She looks for where she tossed her ceremonial knife. “And how could she leave us to clean this up.” She started to make another clone.
Dee chuckles. “That’s not what I meant. You said you’re an alien? Don’t you have some tech that could help us with this?”
Denzel grabs some paint and starts opening windows to vent the place.
New clone Hailey appears!
CeBella brings the pup to a room full of werewolf pups! Imagine a doggy daycare XD.
“Hey!”
“We know you!”
A wild set of really pale identical twins with light blue eyes and white hair appear!
“Where are you headed after this?” Denzel asks now that he’s pretty much done with his food.
Pat bows slightly since I’m assuming he’s way taller and would stand out worse if he didn’t. 0.0
She cracks it open tenderly before closing it again, frowning while she hands it to Sable. “Yeah, I can’t read that. What spells might even help in here?”
Dak Phai blinks. “Doesn’t that hurt you, though?” She frowns. “There’s no other way to make clones?”
Stardust snorts. “I wouldn’t call myself an alien, either. Plus, I’m not exactly the techie type. That’s Dak Phai’s job. Yessei had to teach me to use a smartphone,” she mutters. Then, she notices Denzel starting to paint and calls for Dak Phai, saying, “don’t you have something that could paint the place?”
“Uhm, maybe?” She reaches down and fiddles with her gauntlet before she gets an idea and pulls out a screwdriver to pull off the front panel lol.
Reunited and it feels so good! 
lol