There is a twist in the air and a boy of maybe twenty-one appears beside the dance floor in a burst of red-gold light, looking around him curiously.
A brief but crucial second later, a massive brown-and-white eagle appears in the air above him in much the same manner.
Tony checks his watch, absently bracing himself for the weight as the three-foot-tall eagle folds her ten-foot-span wings and settles onto his shoulder.
"This is... nnnot what I expected when I set that spell," he says. His daemon cranes her head to look at the readout.
"Really?" she asks, running her beak affectionately through his hair. "Because it makes perfect sense to me. You show up at the beginning of the universe, of course there'll be a party waiting for you. If Sherry and Mikey had come, there'd probably be a library."
"I don't think it works that way, Pax," says Tony. "Good experiment, though. Maybe I should go back and try again." He looks around and starts to smile. "But maybe I shouldn't go back right away..."
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A brief but crucial second later, a massive brown-and-white eagle appears in the air above him in much the same manner.
Tony checks his watch, absently bracing himself for the weight as the three-foot-tall eagle folds her ten-foot-span wings and settles onto his shoulder.
"This is... nnnot what I expected when I set that spell," he says. His daemon cranes her head to look at the readout.
"Really?" she asks, running her beak affectionately through his hair. "Because it makes perfect sense to me. You show up at the beginning of the universe, of course there'll be a party waiting for you. If Sherry and Mikey had come, there'd probably be a library."
"I don't think it works that way, Pax," says Tony. "Good experiment, though. Maybe I should go back and try again." He looks around and starts to smile. "But maybe I shouldn't go back right away..."