It's Pronounced "Tiefling" - OTA

[st_affofthemoon]

Zahra needed to get a lay of the land now that she had arrived and things seemed to have calmed down a little. She was sure leaving the room would worry Kash, but she had only ventured out a few times briefly and now it felt right. She had filled him in on everything that she knew happened back home, spent many days enjoying the marvel of hot baths on demand, and discovered what a 'TV' was and tried to get some idea of what this plane was like. Now it was time to experience it for herself.

Zahra did not hide what she was. The red-skinned Tiefling wore a grey dress with a hole cut and sewn to allow her tail freedom of movement behind her. She decided to leave her staff behind, but she had done so after a lot of thought. The humans here didn't need to see her walking around with a weapon, but she felt naked and vulnerable. Kash said they were safe and so she would lean on those words as she navigated the inn weaponless.

She found the pool, crouching down by the water and feeling the cool water against her fingers. She could smell something from the water that told her the water wasn't entirely pure. It took her some time to figure out it was a place to bathe or swim, like a lake in the middle of the forest. She did take note of the heated part of the pool.

Her next step was through the lobby to the bar. Taverns looked similar no matter what plane of existence you were on, it seemed. She felt her stomach growl and after a moment found her way to the restaurant. She ordered the chicken because it reminded her of Scanlan.


After her meal she found her way to the library. There were not as many books as there was in Whitestone or even the Slayer's Take, but there were many. She started to peruse.

Her last stop was to Vex's room. She knocked and waited patiently.

(ooc: Find her anywhere. She has white eyes with no pupil or iris and horns on her head.)

Comments

[st_igmatized]

"I've seen Percy," Sunny said. He came to the library, and she was often there. "We've yet to have a proper conversation."

Lillith had given her a similar impression of the family, both immediate and extended. "I was supposed to be brown-skinned. My grandmother was so dark she was nearly black. So I was... a surprise. To say the least."

[st_affofthemoon]

"A welcome surprise, I hope." Otherwise Zahra might be willing to wish them off a tall tower as well. "Funny how appearances matter so much in our lives. A bit ridiculous, if you ask me."

[st_igmatized]

"Apple of my mother's eye," Sunny said, rather than get into anything about her father. As far as he was concerned, she could have been a girl, or she could have been albino, but she had to be both, and he couldn't forgive her that. "And my brothers are idiots, but they taught me how to hit back when other people got funny ideas about how I look."

[st_affofthemoon]

"That's usually the response those types of people understand anyways." Zahra had to defend herself enough times growing up that she understood that with certainty. "I'm told this place is different. That people here are more accepting."

[st_igmatized]

"No one's given me grief over my coloring yet," Sunny answered with a shrug. "And it's the first time I've been able to be public about my magic. So far there hasn't been an issue about that either."

She paused. "But I'll be real, I'm also a human. I have no idea how you'll be accepted here." Lillith was hiding in plain sight, and Sunny couldn't say she blamed her for it.

[st_affofthemoon]

"You think people will notice?" Her expression seemed sincere for a brief moment, then Zahra smiled suddenly. "I suppose if anyone has an issue with it, they will just have to get over it."

Zahra tilted her head, considering something for a moment. "Lillith mentioned that you can perform magic." The term she used escaped her mind at the moment. "Do you come by it naturally?"

[st_igmatized]

Sunny grinned fiercely at that answer. They would get on like a house on fire.

"Yes, and yes, although I couldn't do any magic until I was initiated. Neither of my parents have any talent, so... things got complicated." Orlu and Chichi and Sasha, born to magical parents, had been doing acts of magic since before they could talk. At least if Chichi's claim that her mother hadn't seen her face for the first week of her life could be believed.

[st_affofthemoon]

"Parents tend to make a lot of things complicated." Her father had been a sorcerer and been very upset when she hadn't naturally been drawn to magic. "I came by mine when I was older. Gifted it, if you will. Before then I had always wished I was born with the power." If only to stop her father's wrath.

[st_igmatized]

"I hadn't known magic existed until I was twelve," Sunny explained with a shrug. "And even then, I was convinced either I or the rest of the world had gone mad at first." Before then it had only been the smallest things, improbable, but explainable. Like creeping up almost invisibly on her father, and fighting the fever that nearly took her as a baby.

[st_affofthemoon]

"Magic can be quite frightening at times." She knew this first hand too, but she didn't like to dwell on that. She turned her fear into power. "Do you practice here?"

[st_igmatized]

Sunny just barely restrained herself from a wryly amused snort. "Oh, yeah. Keeps me busy. I'm not used to having so much time to fill."

[st_affofthemoon]

"I've noticed that life here seems rather slow. Back home there was always something to go out and hunt, when the world wasn't being threatened in general." Zahra wondered just want most people did, in fact. She couldn't imagine Vax being content stationary.

[st_igmatized]

Sunny nodded. "My life was more university and wrangling fairies who were trying very, very badly to pass for humans, but there was the occasional 'everyone is going to die' disaster, too." She never thought she'd miss the monster fighting, but she did. Because that at least had been her life.

[st_affofthemoon]

That caught her attention and her head tilted just the slightest. "You have fairies in your world?"

[st_igmatized]

"Unfortunately," Sunny answered flatly. "Though... a couple of them were very sweet." Winter and Phouka were both too precious for the world. And yet so very dangerous.

And oh yeah the part where Phouka had taken her virginity, that in no way influenced her thinking.

[st_affofthemoon]

"My world has fairies, too, but they spend most of their time in another plane we call the Feywild. Usually very tricky, fairies. I imagine they must be the same in most worlds." She wondered if Teiflings were the same, too. She wondered how many worlds had her kind. "Do you have other races as well?"

[st_igmatized]

"Yes. But my world is a world that doesn't believe magic is real, so..." Sunny's shoulders rolled in a shrug. "Most beings that can't pass for human keep to their own realms."

[st_affofthemoon]

"A shame. There are probably some very interesting people humans will never get to meet because of that." Why people felt the need to deny magic was beyond her. "Though I do admit some races are better left on their planes. And most dragons can just go die in a hole, really."

[st_igmatized]

Remembering Belinda, Sunny smiled at that, sheepish and awkward. "Most of them, yeah."

[st_affofthemoon]

That caught her attention and Zahra raised an eyebrow. "You've met a dragon?"

[st_igmatized]

"I got a job offer from one," Sunny admitted, shrugging one shoulder. "She hoarded stories, so she ran a publishing company."

[st_affofthemoon]

Zahra paused a little at that. "Stories? Now that's a first." Not that she had any idea what a publishing company was. "I suppose stories are harmless than other alternatives."

[st_igmatized]

The corners of Sunny's mouth twitched up in a little smile. "Belinda was definitely a first for me, but she was sincere. And she liked me and figured it didn't do her any harm to have a witch on staff. Of course then I ended up here, so." She shrugged.

[st_affofthemoon]

"Belinda is a terrible name for a dragon." Zahra didn't mean to say her thought out loud, but she couldn't quite help it. It almost sounded like she was some bimbo rather than a dragon. "Sorry. I'm sure she's quite nice. She should consider changing her name however."

[st_igmatized]

Sunny wasn't offended in the slightest. She threw her head back and laughed. "Part of the disguise maybe? I don't know. But as far as I know, none of her employees had the first clue what she was."