Sunshine woke as the sun rose, the voice of Merlin the dragon echoed in her mind, “You will never find what you seek outside.” She shook her head to clear the voice from her thoughts, and once more asked herself, “So what do I do next?”
Her stomach growled at her. “Oh.”
There had been a time when she would not have asked the wild magic to make food for her to eat. But also, there had been a time when she believed the wild magic was wild magic and not a zillion invisible, tiny machines that manipulated matter at the atomic and even subatomic level.
Hell, she still didn’t even know what that meant. “Someday I’ll have to ask them to explain.”
The weather where she was had become noticeably warmer than the weather in the northern forest, where she lived with Mystica, and her adopted daughters. She decided she wanted something to drink, and some fruit to eat. As a joke, she waved her hands, and said, “Mumbo, jumbo, apple, banana, and a glass of water, Kazam!”
She thought she heard the machines laughing, but an apple, a banana, and a glass of water all appeared on a flat spot on the ground.
“Wild magic, right?”
“Wild magic,” the machines answered.
“Some day I will ask you how you do this.”
“Some day we will try to answer.”
After her light meal, Sunshine took to the sky. She flew southward, out of the mountains.
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