Dinner and a Show

"A rainbow bridge? Sounds interesting. Do you just ask other worlds if you can build a bridge on their world, or do you just do it no matter your affiliation with them?" She had a feeling the latter could lead to a lot of issues, so the former seemed more plausible and less risky. "I wonder if oricenta lived in a different dimension if we could have more freedom to go to different worlds. I sort of want to suggest to my Grandy if we can try that out if we can find the proper equipment for it... but that would probably take years."

"Well, I guess Ilada is fine where it is. It's huge anyways, and we don't ever feel cramped, even with other species living on it too." She did feel a bit weird about oricenta being the ruling species there, while all other species were either used as a food source, or were ruled under oricenta with varying privileges. That was something for her to bring to her family to discuss, not with a friend.

"I wonder if it's possible for oricenta to live with the humans," she wondered out loud. "We look similar to humans, we could probably create media surrounding us, popularize it, then cosplay as ourselves when we visit. Or maybe we could always just wear hats and dresses to cover—" She gave a pause, realizing how stupid what she was saying was before continuing. "But that wouldn't work with our wings, and horns, and feathers..." A small sigh escaped her lips.

Stuff like that didn't feel appropriate to talk about on an outing like this. She wanted to keep things happy and light, not about how to have her people live with a species that wouldn't accept them for who they are. Oricenta had what the humans had and more, as well as those on Manta Carlos Islands. In fact, the humans had nothing compared to other species.

Remi focused back on Bron, finding herself annoyed she was focusing more on herself and on her people. "How does your dimension work? Do they get weaker or stronger when they come to this dimension?"

Remi listed carefully to Bron as he spoke about the rules of his world. Even though he made himself sound weak, she felt like anyone seemed weak compared to a god. She still had a good feeling he was very strong, even if he wasn't on the level of a true god. He was still a demigod and still had lots of advantages compared to normal humans.

When he brought up Ilada she found herself wondering, but only for a few seconds. "No, we keep in contact with the supernatural world despite being hidden right over the human's heads. The only magic weakening stuff we have are medicine to prevent healing, and magic to prevent people from fighting back when they're being arrested." She took a sip of her drink. "Still, Ilada is very magic based. Even if we ignore how we're born with magic, some learn how to use other types of magic to make themselves stronger than they were born. As I said before, oricenta are a magic based species. Without it we'd be nothing more than a peek of how humans, deer, and owls would look if they bred."

"I mean, I guess. It's pretty normal in my life so I can't really act like it's really special. I'm a bit annoyed with how my powers are basically a copy of my mom's though." They both had mineral shifting powers, but her mom was more experienced in using them. She did have over two-hundred years of training with them. Remi still felt it would have been cool to have powers that were different, yet she was also sort of happy she didn't have a power that forced her to be near water to use.

She didn't really find it that special some were born with magic and others weren't. She felt used to it, since some animals didn't have magic on Ilada. It's just like how some species can't walk on their hind legs, while others can. The idea of magic schools for other species also didn't surprise her, since all oricenta were required to go through some sort of tutoring with their powers, no matter their social standing. There were even some teachers and tutors that taught stuff outside of healing, sexual characteristics shifting, shape-shifting, and elemental manipulation. Stuff like that was usually reserved for those with higher job positions or with a lot of money.

"I don't really think I want to learn anymore," she responded. "I mean, there doesn't really seem to be a point in my opinion. And to be frank, I actually haven't learned all of my oricenta abilities, like water walking or changing my sexual characteristics. Maybe I can learn enchanting or other stuff, but I'm not sure what's there that would get me really interested."

"Necromancy?" she repeated. "Well... that sure is new... I don't think that would do me well though. Maybe if I tried with other species, but once an oricenta dies I'm pretty sure it's impossible to revive them." She would go into more detail about it, but she didn't want to make force a bunch of lore on her species. Plus, some species seemed to regard death as a horrible thing, while she didn't mind it too much. Of course she wanted to live, but it death wasn't the horrible ending she worried about, it was how she would die. That was the unnerving part.

Leaving the conversation off with death and necromancy may not have been the best decision if he got easily uncomfortable with those ideas, despite bringing them up. "Any other suggestions? I got enchanting on my list, so... hm... Maybe I can learn beast taming. Or cloaking myself and spying. I always liked the sly hunter and rogue characters in games, I wouldn't mind learning skills like that."