In a private room of Supre Lady Matilda’s castle, the ladies of the Darklight Host were in the middle of complete and utter chaos.
Matilda’s thod of planning was to bring out every possible option side by side and see what her visions said about how those things would work together, then ask the others what they thought, to see if that would change the visions.
"What about this colour for the bridesmaids?" The ancient Chaos dragon asked.
[I like that one.] Cara comnded her, but everyone else just looked confused.
"You’re not holding anything that we can see." Dana inford her.
"Oh, and it’s such a pretty shade. Sha that nobody can see it. Feel how smooth it is."
Dana reached out, then stopped when her fingers touched sothing impossibly soft, almost like silk, but it felt like it partially rged with your finger as you touched it, like running your finger through warm water.
Tiffani sighed. "You wouldn’t believe the fight she put up when I first told her I wouldn’t wear that in public. I don’t even know what she thinks it looks like."
Dana smiled at the vampire. "Sohow, I suspect she’s going to tell us that she foresees great fortune for the bridesmaids if they wear it to the wedding."
Cara gave Dana an affirming gesture, while Matilda laughed.
"Well, you could call it that. But let’s move on to another combination."
The Chaos Badger relayed to her sisters what she thought the dress looked like, and Rae imdiately began to pout. That dress was spectacular, and she couldn’t even see the real thing.
But part of that was because the dress didn’t exist fully in reality.
It was like being partially incorporeal, but still solid enough to touch things a little. If you tried to damage the dress, Cara’s thoughts said that you would pass right through it.
Which in Cara’s mind made it ideal for a bridesmaid’s dress.
Remi considered the potential. It was like a non-newtonian fluid, but in reverse. It was solid until you applied too much force, and then is simply phased out of reality. The problem was that the colour was one that didn’t exist in any light spectrum that their eyes could see, the light that it reflected only existed in the Chaos Plane.
Matilda brought out another dress, this one was almost white, but in the way that white light was white. It radiated white to the point that you couldn’t see any detail to it. Then, she moved the dress, and the colours shimred, flickering like the rainbow.
Matilda frowned at the dress, then did sothing that made the light fade.
"Fae Silk. It’s lovely, but if you get the mana attunent wrong, the colours get all wonky." She explained.
Rae took the dress from her, and Dana waited patiently as she was changed into the fiftieth new dress of the morning.
"Oh, that is lovely. You can fly, right? We should get you so wings to go with it." Matilda cheered.
[How about a shawl? It would flap in the breeze as she floated down the aisle.] Cara suggested.
"Oh that is great. Yes, one second."
Dana waited for soone to explain, as only Matilda and the other beasts could hear Cara’s ntal ssages.
"She says a shawl with the dress would be right."
Matilda flipped through dozens of gossar pieces of cloth in the next minute, then held up her choice.
"Here, put this on. Yes, pale violet flowers on simple white. The classics are always the best luck."
Rae put the cloth over Dana’s shoulders, and she found herself floating involuntarily. But she could still move normally, she just wasn’t touching the ground.
"I need one of those too. I hate getting other people’s mud on my scales." Remi demanded.
Matilda laughed and passed her a red one, then took it back and held it up before Dana.
"Would you consider red and gold as wedding colours? Red is a good luck colour for the day."
Dana shrugged. "I wouldn’t object too strongly. So of the Demons I’ve t use red for wedding gowns, and they look lovely."
Nachtia nodded. "Black Dragons use red wedding dresses as well, and white dragons use black for special occasions."
That made sense. They wore white every day, so they would have to pick sothing else if they wanted people to know that they were celebrating.
Matilda gave Remi a different red one, with the sa effect, and the Naga silently celebrated this small victory over filth. Sure, she could fly in Spirit Snake Form, but that form didn’t have arms.
This one had four.
It was clearly the superior option for an alchemist.
Dana was just being rearranged into a red gown when a sudden thought ca to her mind.
"I got a skill book from the dungeon, but I never used it. I wanted to have Karl duplicate it for Rae, and then I forgot about it." She gasped.
Lotus laughed. "Ha! They say that I am infectious, but it’s the Karl who is corrupting everyone and making them forgetful."
Rae laughed. "Well, if you give it to , I will make Karl lean it and teach us both."
"Then make him make a copy of the spell book. No, two copies, so that we can give one to the blue dragons for their records, and still have one for the Library at the Guild House." Dana added.
Matilda nodded eagerly. "Tell him to take in the blue dragons. They will make great Guild mbers. Having a blue dragon to protect your books is the best thing you can do to guard knowledge."
[Karl, learn this book, teach the thing, then make two more books. And take the blue dragon into the Guild. The Chaos Dragon says she’s good luck.] Rae inford Karl, startling him out of a discussion about items that would be needed to place the overflow of orphans into a new ho.
"Lady Sapphire, how would you like to join the Darklight Host? I can offer you a few benefits, and one super exclusive skill." Karl offered, halting the conversation.
"What brings on this offer?" She asked suspiciously.
"Lady Matilda says that you’re good luck. And Rae just gave a skill book to learn and copy. I know how blue dragons feel about those, even if they’re not Inscriptionists.
Actually, make it two bits of exclusive knowledge. I bet that you can learn both." Karl explained.
"I’m listening."
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