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In Paraasilan, Esmaar, a pair of roommates are about to break a rule that, compared to the one about running in the corridors or even the one about unlicensed teleportation, is there for a good reason.

In unison, they complete their shared spell.

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with Adarin (Aestrix)

with Ekador (kappa)

with Brilliance (kappa)

with the admin (kappa)

with Teah (kappa)

with Katran (lambda)

with Hall (kappa)

with Joy (kappa)

with Kalinda (Christy Hotwater)

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An apparently-human woman appears in the circle, positioned as though sitting in a chair. A split second afterward, before she has had time to fall, a chair appears to prevent that outcome.

She looks slightly perturbed.

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The girls start chattering at each other in an unfamiliar language. They seem excited.

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The woman in the chair crosses her arms and observes this. She continues to look slightly perturbed.

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Eventually the blonde girl fetches a book, looks something up in it, and makes a gesture and speaks more gibberish.

"Did that work?" her roommate asks the summonee.

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"Yes. This is extremely irritating," she says. "I am extremely irritated."

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"Sorry, we'll send you back real soon," says the younger girl. "We just have to show you to Nemaar and then back you go."

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"Your lack of an afterlife offends my aesthetics."

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Both girls blink. "What?" asks the blonde one.

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"What part of that statement do you need explained?" she inquires.

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"First of all how can you tell, second of all why would you have aesthetics about that, and third why did it seem relevant?" asks the blonde girl.

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"I am the administrator of an afterlife. I strongly dislike irretrievable destruction," she says. "If you do not return me immediately I will arrange for this world to connect to my domain so that I do not have to continue being surrounded by impermanent things."

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"Um, well, we're planning to unsummon you in a few degrees," says Korulen. "...You can 'arrange' that from in there?"

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"Yes." She pauses, then adds, "I have now done it. I am still irritated, but less urgently."

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"I suppose it's a good thing neither of us are religious," comments Korulen, looking kind of disturbed.

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The self-described administrator has no response to that, except to settle back in her chair and resume looking slightly perturbed.

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Time elapses.

Eventually the younger girl leaves and comes back with a humanoid lion, who inspects the admin, knocks on the ward around the summoning circle, and shrugs. "Where'd the chair come from? That's not a school chair."

"I think she must've had it tucked or something," says the younger of the roommates. "It just appeared about when she did."

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"I can instantiate objects," says the administrator.

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"What, like, anything?" asks the blonde girl.

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"There are currently limitations on the magical properties I could assign," she says. "It is inconvenient. Otherwise, yes."

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"...what kind of limitations?" asks the blonde one.

(The lion boy leaves.)

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"You have now shown me to Nemaar," she reminds them.

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"Yeah," says the blonde girl, "now we just oh no."

"What?" asks her roommate.

"Oh no oh no oh no -"

"What?"

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The administrator raises her eyebrows slightly.

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"You can't co-cast a reversal, I can't believe I forgot that, oh no," whimpers the elf.

"They're going to expel me," says the human, paling.

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"Do I correctly understand that you are incapable of returning me?"