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lifes_sake

Home again. [Tilly! We're back! How long were we out?]

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withmypowers

[That sounds fine to me,] says Agent Honey. She transports herself to somewhere convenient for Jane to pick her up from.

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mind_game

Yoink.

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lifes_sake

"Hi, Agent Honey, nice to meet you."

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withmypowers

"Nice to meet you too," says Agent Honey, smiling. "Will anyone relevant mind terribly if I ask for the Wellspring Matilda to be brought in too? Adularia," she taps her vaguely book-shaped moonstone pendant, "wants to talk to all of us."

"Ooh," says Tilly. "That sounds interesting."

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lifes_sake

"I don't mind," shrugs Cam.

$mind_game: (fractal)$

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mind_game

[Matiiiiiilda. I am alive again. Also Agent Honey and Tilly invite you to Syntropy to talk to Adularia.]

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withmypowers

[I'd be delighted! Congratulations on your aliveness,] says Matilda, and she appears in front of the Wellspring Janepoint.

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mind_game

Yoink.

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withmypowers

"Hi," says Tilly.

"Hi and hi," says Matilda. "And hi."

"So the thing Adularia was thinking," says Agent Honey, "is that she might like to partner with you both. If she can successfully split herself into three Devices linked by ansible connections."

"Ooh," say the other two Matildas, with perfect simultaneity.

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lifes_sake

Cam laughs when the Matildas speak in sync.

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withmypowers

"I thought you might say that," says Agent Honey.

"Can we do it, though?" says Tilly.

"We can try," says Matilda. "Whose magic?"

"Wish is cleanest," says Tilly. "Let's try that first. And as the local expert—"

She makes an over-to-you gesture to Agent Honey, who smiles.

"Try both-at-once first, then one at a time, going up sizes from pentagon," Tilly advises. "And definitely include the ansible installation."

A moonstone pendant appears around Tilly's neck, then around Matilda's.

"Two hexes," Agent Honey reports.

"Four," says Tilly, "now that I've maged us."

The Matildas share a grin.

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lifes_sake

"Congratulations."

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withmypowers

"We like magic," says Matilda, grinning.

"We like it a lot," says Tilly.

"And now we've all traded kinds," says Agent Honey.

"Except mine, which doesn't trade as usefully," says Tilly. "But I might as well hand it over anyway."

"The universal language? Limited applicability, especially now that we all have Devices," says Agent Honey. "But go for it."

Tilly nods.

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lifes_sake

"Maybe eventually I'll figure out what's up with the Powers and Ordeals and fix it up a bit, and then it'll be a worthwhile project to figure out how to wizard adults. There was a person in Materia who went in for deicide, it could be highly entertaining to throw her at Iggy," muses Cam, "if the world weren't a biohazard."

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mind_game

"Biohazard? But anyway Aether's new aura fixes that," chirps Jane. "Near her, anyway."

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withmypowers

"Refresh my memory - Iggy?" says Agent Honey.

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lifes_sake

"Local evil deity, sends nastiness after newly oathed wizards," says Cam. "He is not actually named Iggy, that's just how he introduced himself to me when he was pretending to be a talking rock."

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withmypowers

"I see," says Agent Honey. "That does sound unpleasant. Can we do something about him?"

"Nothing immediately obvious," says Tilly. "But you never know."

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lifes_sake

"Don't understand enough about how he works," Cam says. "He has either confused motivations, intensely variable competence, or some kind of agenda beyond my comprehension - his pattern of behavior doesn't make sense if he's trying to achieve some result, has as much power as it sometimes looks like he has, and works, psychologically, like all the other kinds of people we've met."

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withmypowers

"I do think he has limitations that aren't apparent to us," says Tilly, "but whether they're psychological or practical I'm really not sure."

"Hmm," says Matilda. "Something to think about."

The Matildas share a smile.

Edited Date: 2013-07-29 10:38 pm (UTC)

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lifes_sake

"The fact that this world isn't Downsideable has me nervous about making a move, in case he gets backed into a corner - or some alien-psychology equivalent - and kills a bunch of people I can't get back," Cam says. "He hasn't been making an unusual amount of nuisance of himself so far even though he considered me threatening enough back when I was newly wizardy to try to strike a deal with me."

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withmypowers

"I haven't been able to acquire any good detail about this world's afterlife," says Tilly, "but I'm pretty sure at this point that it has some kind of a one."