I doubt I could pass for one of those. Even if I shifted to have wings and a tail, like them, I'd be three times their size. I look the most like the furless groundlings here. The humans.

... I'll think about it.

[The secret to fake names was something you'd react to, according to Moon. He doubts he'd look around if someone said "Rocky".]

I'll be interested to see what they think when this festival thing is over and I'm still gray.

I'm sure that will work very well. Or I could come up there and shift and scare everyone away.

[He is obviously not serious about either comment.]

How long do these Jaunt things last usually?

Hrm. All right.

[That's going to be a long time to pretend to be a groundling. Normally he doesn't stay in places that long. Maybe he can get far enough away from each of the settlements that he can shift without giving anyone a heart attack.]

So this money we got, it's supposed to last that long.

[Also problematic. He's spent probably a quarter of it on snacks already, and he's going to be hungry again soon.]

I can get back to liminal space, but I haven't been able to make anything there yet. No one I asked could or would show me how. Mostly they said it would take time.

[He sounds a little annoyed at that. He wants to make his own food, dammit.]

I can already do that. It's what I do with my clothes or anything I'm carrying when I shift. What do I need to know after that?

[That's interesting, that there's a difference between the kinds of things they can make.]

Or baubles to sell in the human city. All right. So how do you do that?

[Good call, man. Stone would require a lot more explanations if you'd gone more technical. He's basically from a hunter-gatherer culture, after all.]

Hmmm. Yes, I think I can see how that would work.

[He is, in fact, equating it with shifting: reaching for that other shape that doesn't exist until he calls for it, with all its extra mass. It might be an interesting way to consider liminal manipulation, pulling something out of another dimension more than creating it.]

And that will only work in liminal space. Not here.

[Which means he'd have to go back in there to practice. Ugh.]

Rrr. I'll go back later, then. Once I feel ready for dealing with that place.

[He much prefers this real world with its smells and tastes and all the people in it.]