crystal.

[biggame]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Xiomara
RECIPIENT: Everybody
NOTES: Threadjacking approved and encouraged

Hey, if we cut an eluvian in half, will it still work? Because imagine. If we could strap one to a griffon, we could be anywhere, and only one person would have to do the traveling. Or we could strap one to the bottom of a griffon and fly low over a battlefield or a lake and people could jump through without the griffon even needing to land—

[ Or maybe that's just her personal paratrooper fantasy, parachute part PENDING, RESEARCH. ]

I think we could be thinking bigger here. Or smaller. But in a big way.

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[portalling]

It’s already movable.

[elegiaque]

Not independently, ( all coaxing, ) not under its own sole power.

[portalling]

But if it’s shot down out of the sky then you lose your whole painstakingly-built home, and not just a vehicle.

[elegiaque]

( sulkily: )

Maybe we could fit it with ropes so an airship could carry it sometimes on occasions it isn't likely to get shot at.

[portalling]

( He loves her so much, even if he’s being a killjoy. )

That sounds much better.

[elegiaque]

( she is audibly still pouting about this. viktor understands her. )

Even though we could have gone anywhere we wanted without having to pay a ship captain an exorbitant fee every time—

[portalling]

We can already do that now with the eluvians —

( Why are they both so stubborn and stupid. )

[elegiaque]

From Kirkwall, we aren't going to live in Kirkwall forever—

( it's part of it. )

[portalling]

Talk to me about it again in a few years once our airship technology’s actually vetted and tried and proven, and then a flying house won’t sound quite so suicidal.

[elegiaque]

( oh, her one weakness: taking for granted that he'll still be around.

with an immense sigh and reserving the right to bring this up whenever he's annoying and she's losing a different, even dumber argument: )

Well, I will.

[portalling]

( Metaphorically speaking: ) Jotting it down. I’ll hold myself to it.

not here

[reparo]

[ Are they...you know. Boathousemates?

Adding this one to her (mostly mental) notes. ]

also not here.

[aberratic]

[ raising her eyebrow at hermione, pulling out her definitely physical notepad to write down this development. ]