"But... what's up there?" Suzie tried to read her boyfriend's grinning face over the pale light of the PCS, or Personal Communication Spell if you're a square.
Jon's face was as cocky as ever, his lopsided grin promising adventure.
"The world." Always mysterious - in a way, that's why Suzie had fallen for him in the first place. Well, that, and his rad hair, but she would never admit that.
"I can't leave, Jon," Suzie reminded him. "My dad had those silent alarms cast on all the doors and windows after the last time..."
"Got-cha covered, babe." Jon's PCS-projected fingers snapped, and suddenly Suzie's bedroom was flooded with a sparkling blue mist, flooding from the zippered opening of her back pack.
"Snap-activated anti-scry. Slipped it in your bag at lunch. Parents never see it coming."
Susie grinned, despite herself. Jon never took no for an answer - maybe that's what she liked about him?
- - - - -
Jon gave the activation glyph on his mana-board a kick, and soon he and Suzie were off on a small magical cushion of air. Suzie held on tight as the board picked up speed, and Jon simply grinned that shit-eating grin of his.
Soon, Jon and Suzie had reached the first leg of their journey; the base of the Space Needle, tallest free-standing structure in Seattle. Suzie shivered as she looked up at the thing, so Jon, ever Gallant, offered her his sweater. It was thin, but the minor warmth enchantment kept her cozy and protected her from the wind.
"Well, we're here," she said, finally. "Now what?"
"Now we climb, babe."
Suzie was shocked. "What? Are you insane? How the heck are we gonna climb that thing?"
"Geeze, give a guy some credit, will ya? I brought us a couple spider-drops." Jon's hand delved into his pocket, soon producing a quartet of orange tablets, emblazoned with a little black spider. They could have just as easily been Halloween candy, Suzie thought to herself.
Suzie's jaw dropped. "Spider drops? Seriously? Aren't those, like, controlled potions? Where did you get those?"
Jon shrugged. "Same guy who gave me the anti-scry. Relax, they're harmless, you won't get high or anything. Well..." Jon looked up at the huge needle. "Okay, so you might get a little high. You trust me?"
Suzie bit her lip, but something about the confident way Jon was grinning told her she would be save with him. After a few minutes of hesitation, she accepted her pills. Jon handed her a bottle of Coke to wash them down - one of the new bottles, with the moving advertisements on the label.
"Two should be good for about two hours," Jon ensured her, and sure enough, they soon found themselves scaling the side of the Needle as naturally as though it were the ground, Jon laughing all the while.
- - - - -
The drops made climbing easy, but once they reached the top, Jon offered Suzie his hand, pulling her to a seat on top of the dome. Gallantry was a bit cheesy, but if truth be told, Suzie still liked it about him.
All at once, Suzie became aware of just how high they had climbed. With a sharp gasp of fear, she clung to Jon and closed her eyes.
"Ah, c'mon, Suzie. You didn't climb all the way up here just to not look, did you?" Jon rubbed her shoulder reassuringly, and very lowlt, Suzie opened her eyes.
She didn't regret it.
From up here, Suzie could see the entire city. A thousand lights from a thousand windows, street lamps, witch fires and billboards lit up the ground, even as a thousand stars lit up the night sky. Suzie had never seen anything like it, outside of movies. She wondered briefly if this was how the Night Fliers felt as they patrolled the night sky on their flying carpets.
"See? What did I tell you? Up here, you can see the whole world." Jon's multi-hued Mohawk fluttered in the air, and even as she watched, Suzie could see the colors of his expensive magical hair dye shift and shimmer.
Suzie held Jon tightly, resting her head on her shoulder as she watched some of the street-illusions flashing and moving over on the east-end. This trip may have been a pain in the ass, but she couldn't argue that Jon was a romantic. Maybe that's what she liked about him.
"Thanks for talking me into this, Jon," she said. "You were right... this is beautiful."
"Don't thank me yet, babe." Jon's eyes stared playfully into her own, that cocky grin she loved so much still on his face.
"I still haven't told you how were getting down!"
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