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[alicornucopia]

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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[cardistry]

He listens intently as far as how to get into the right kind of maintenance mode - a kind he didn't know he had until now, this is supremely weird - and then says, "I got it from here, thanks," and runs through the rest much faster than instructions can be delivered; the individual steps from that point are as intuitive to him as the rest of his systems now that he knows where to find this one. No more control codes.

[alicornucopia]

"They're gone," confirms Leekath.

[cardistry]

"Thanks. That would not have been a nice surprise coming from somebody who could use 'em."

[alicornucopia]

"I don't think there's anybody in Elcenia who can."

[cardistry]

"I don't think so either. It's very comforting."

[alicornucopia]

"It sounds lonely to me."

[cardistry]

He shrugs. "I can, like, talk to people for the first time in four hundred years, and they're people I actually want to talk to, it sure isn't lonely by comparison."

[alicornucopia]

"Why couldn't you talk to anyone before?"

[cardistry]

"Would've taken attention away from trying not to blow up any planets."

[alicornucopia]

"Because of the thing Keo deleted?"

[cardistry]

"Yeah, that."

[alicornucopia]

"It's a good thing you met her, then. There's only one of her."

[cardistry]

"There's only one of most people. It's pretty great that she's the one of her that she is, though."

[alicornucopia]

"I mean there's only one person with her kind of magic."

[cardistry]

"...What, ever? Ever everywhere?"

[alicornucopia]

"Right now. They're really rare, so rare that it usually works out to there being one at a time."

[cardistry]

"I dunno," he says, "it's so totally unlikely that I was the one who got here in the first place out of all the people in all the worlds it could've been, I'm not sure it's that much more unlikely that I happened to meet Keo while I was at it. Seems like she'd be a pretty good person to call if you had a guy trapped in a summoning circle screaming his head off even if she wasn't the summoner's mom."

[alicornucopia]

"I've never heard of her going on trips to foreign countries to deal with things at all like you there," Leekath remarks.

[cardistry]

He shrugs. "And how often do you hear about things at all like me?"

[alicornucopia]

"You're very unlikely," Leekath says. "What I mean is I don't think Keo's that easily reachable for people who don't go to school here or know her personally."

[cardistry]

"I guess. Get anything interesting from my hhikiiia since last time I asked?"

[alicornucopia]

"A list of things you ate. Now it's listing the hairs on your human shape."

[cardistry]

"What, all of 'em? One by one? Wouldn't that take a while?"

[alicornucopia]

"Hhikiiias don't really care about that. I can tell it to skip to something else if I think of what to ask."

[cardistry]

He giggles. "I don't know why, but I'm imagining a disembodied voice listing all of my hairs and it's really adorable."