In a private room of Supreme Lady Matilda’s castle, the ladies of the Darklight Host were in the middle of complete and utter chaos.
Matilda’s method 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 commended her, but everyone else just looked confused.
"You’re not holding anything that we can see." Dana informed her.
"Oh, and it’s such a pretty shade. Shame that nobody can see it. Feel how smooth it is."
Dana reached out, then stopped when her fingers touched something impossibly soft, almost like silk, but it felt like it partially merged 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. "Somehow, 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 immediately 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 shimmered, flickering like the rainbow.
Matilda frowned at the dress, then did something that made the light fade.
"Fae Silk. It’s lovely, but if you get the mana attunement 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 some 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 someone to explain, as only Matilda and the other beasts could hear Cara’s mental messages.
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