"Madame Cherie doesn't have wings. None of the centaurs do, just Chex so far. And she doesn't know how to use her magic to fly yet, but I just know she can! She's been practicing and exercising real hard! No, the other centaurs are mean to her though, because she has wings. And the Isle Centaurs exile any centaurs with magic. Like Magician Arnolde."
Oh, monstrous is fine with Ivy. Chex is a flying monster after all. And Stanley is more than just monstrous. Although she would have mistaken Crowley's abilities for being similar to her little brother: able to change himself into any monster. As it is, she squints at the transformative -- "Like Grandfather Trent?" He could change other living beings into other living beings, but she's too used to everyone in all of Xanth knowing what Trent's magic power is, because he was pretty infamous in his youth, though much beloved now.
Ivy laughs in pure delight and claps her hands, as Crowley makes a bow barrette from the leaf. "That's wonderful!" A giant beam. "You must be Magician class too!" Or would be in Xanth -- although if she knew he was a demon, she'd be baffled at how he could change things other than himself; as all demons are able to change their own form, but not others' -- although there's always a first.
"Well..." she admitted, "Stanley and I are special. I don't know any other dragons, or any other little girls with dragon friends," another laugh! "I met him when he got hit with too much youth potion. My boyfriend," not like that, he's a boy and her friend, and she claimed him as her knight in shiny [but invisible] armor when she was 3, "Accidentally splashed Stanley and his Dad too much. Hugo's Dad, I mean, not Stanley's. Stanley Steamer is a very special dragon! He has a mate, Stacey Steamer, but she's hundreds of years old, and now Stanley's still kind of a baby. Magician Humphrey, that's Hugo's Dad, was able to reverse it on himself and go back to his favorite age, but Stanley said he didn't want to leave me too soon!" And part of it might have been that Ivy herself wasn't willing to lose her best friend dragon too. Besides, he wasn't needed patrolling the Gap Chasm with the current peace treaty between the harpies and goblins there, and Stacey patrolling instead of nesting.
But yes, Xanth is all in on the fantasy genre.
Also puns. Leading to: "What happens if you're guilt tripped? Could I use my magic to not get clumsy?"
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Oh, monstrous is fine with Ivy. Chex is a flying monster after all. And Stanley is more than just monstrous. Although she would have mistaken Crowley's abilities for being similar to her little brother: able to change himself into any monster. As it is, she squints at the transformative -- "Like Grandfather Trent?" He could change other living beings into other living beings, but she's too used to everyone in all of Xanth knowing what Trent's magic power is, because he was pretty infamous in his youth, though much beloved now.
Ivy laughs in pure delight and claps her hands, as Crowley makes a bow barrette from the leaf. "That's wonderful!" A giant beam. "You must be Magician class too!" Or would be in Xanth -- although if she knew he was a demon, she'd be baffled at how he could change things other than himself; as all demons are able to change their own form, but not others' -- although there's always a first.
"Well..." she admitted, "Stanley and I are special. I don't know any other dragons, or any other little girls with dragon friends," another laugh! "I met him when he got hit with too much youth potion. My boyfriend," not like that, he's a boy and her friend, and she claimed him as her knight in shiny [but invisible] armor when she was 3, "Accidentally splashed Stanley and his Dad too much. Hugo's Dad, I mean, not Stanley's. Stanley Steamer is a very special dragon! He has a mate, Stacey Steamer, but she's hundreds of years old, and now Stanley's still kind of a baby. Magician Humphrey, that's Hugo's Dad, was able to reverse it on himself and go back to his favorite age, but Stanley said he didn't want to leave me too soon!" And part of it might have been that Ivy herself wasn't willing to lose her best friend dragon too. Besides, he wasn't needed patrolling the Gap Chasm with the current peace treaty between the harpies and goblins there, and Stacey patrolling instead of nesting.
But yes, Xanth is all in on the fantasy genre.
Also puns. Leading to: "What happens if you're guilt tripped? Could I use my magic to not get clumsy?"