Tab nods. And she closes her eyes and concentrates.
Her Gift feels like a blanket, complete with the supernatural, unexplained ability to protect her from monsters under the bed. She didn't know that this wasn't something everyone felt until she asked, but once she picked it out as a magic thing and not as just part of the sensory background, she was able to start considering how to do things with it, and eventually figured out how to blanket Kers. She can keep Kers under the blanket without much attention, until she goes to sleep, at which time her Gift decides that it needs to wrap her up in one hundred percent of the blanket; sometimes if she's deep in thought about something unrelated she'll also lose it. She can put it on and take it off even if her and Kers are on opposite sides of the orbital ring.
Aelise is right there, and she just needs to turn the blanket inside-out...
She tries. She had a long list of things to try, full of invented words and exclamation points and little synaesthetic diagrams.
It doesn't work. Her blanket does not want to be inside-out.
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Date: 2013-07-05 02:16 am (UTC)Her Gift feels like a blanket, complete with the supernatural, unexplained ability to protect her from monsters under the bed. She didn't know that this wasn't something everyone felt until she asked, but once she picked it out as a magic thing and not as just part of the sensory background, she was able to start considering how to do things with it, and eventually figured out how to blanket Kers. She can keep Kers under the blanket without much attention, until she goes to sleep, at which time her Gift decides that it needs to wrap her up in one hundred percent of the blanket; sometimes if she's deep in thought about something unrelated she'll also lose it. She can put it on and take it off even if her and Kers are on opposite sides of the orbital ring.
Aelise is right there, and she just needs to turn the blanket inside-out...
She tries. She had a long list of things to try, full of invented words and exclamation points and little synaesthetic diagrams.
It doesn't work. Her blanket does not want to be inside-out.