A breath of fresh air was what I felt I needed, and expanding my lungs in the winter New Mexican air. "Umm... Sis... You sure you're ready?" My little brother asked.
"Yes why do you ask?" I responded
"Well... it's kinda cold and you're just in a mini-skirt and t-shirt for one. You also don't have a purse or anything... Also why are you walking? You do remember the mall's a few miles away right?"
I blinked and said "...Well... I guess I just got used to being a mermaid. Gets a lot colder at the bottom of the sea... and just swam everywhere."
"And the having no storage for a wallet or anything? I hope you're not expecting me to pay for everything." I then just put my hand into the extradimensional space Kriash showed me how to use and pulled out a water proof wallet... come to think of it basically everything in there was water proofed one way or another. My brother just stared and asked "How much magic are you planning on using?"
"What? That's barely anything and had basically no magic discharge."
"...ok... Do you at least still have your phone?" Where I brought out my phone and- "That's a rock..." my brother stated.
"So is yours... and this is a geode" I said as I held a rough coarse rock with a myriad of programmed minerals inside of it.
"No, mine is a bunch of... refined... minerals... I still can't call that!"
"Can't you?" Then my brother called my phone, it rang, and I answered the thing and he was surprised when he found I was talking directly into his mind.
"Could you please not do that unless you have to?" My brother having his driver license barely drove the two of us, and while it was familiar... Well having to drive on a marked path to at most 60-70 mph was a lot less... fun than swimming at hundreds of miles and hour wherever I really wanted... Then we got to the mall where we walked and browsed things for christmas... Although I already had presents from the depths of the sea... My brother sensed my eyes glazing over my current reality and then suggested...