"I just made you a mint," she says. "You might have noticed that wishing isn't very flashy. The kinds of coin I know about look like this—"
She conjures illusions with a four, this time, of the six known types of coin in Ehail's silver. They hover in the air in a neat row.
"Threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens, and eights. The plain polygons are more or less safe to use without any special preparation, but sevens and eights are hazardous to the wisher unless you use another coin to wish them safe first. In order to make a coin, you experience some pain and then move it across your mind; in order to wish on a coin, you touch it, focus on it, and make your wish. I'll give you the same conveniences I gave Ehail - coin storage magic so you can keep your coins private and organized and use them without risking dropping any, and one of these."
A device appears in her hand, calculator-sized, with a display showing the number 0 and a row of eight buttons each shaped like a coin. (The button for an eight is a somewhat stylized two-dimensional depiction of the three-dimensional figure.) She hands it over.
"That will give you the minimum amount of pain to make the relevant coin while you hold down a button. It would be much less convenient to make an eight without one. Since I gave you coin storage, coins you make will be put away automatically, but taking them out again, transferring them to someone else's storage, and pulling one out just far enough to wish on it should all be fairly straightforward."
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She conjures illusions with a four, this time, of the six known types of coin in Ehail's silver. They hover in the air in a neat row.
"Threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens, and eights. The plain polygons are more or less safe to use without any special preparation, but sevens and eights are hazardous to the wisher unless you use another coin to wish them safe first. In order to make a coin, you experience some pain and then move it across your mind; in order to wish on a coin, you touch it, focus on it, and make your wish. I'll give you the same conveniences I gave Ehail - coin storage magic so you can keep your coins private and organized and use them without risking dropping any, and one of these."
A device appears in her hand, calculator-sized, with a display showing the number 0 and a row of eight buttons each shaped like a coin. (The button for an eight is a somewhat stylized two-dimensional depiction of the three-dimensional figure.) She hands it over.
"That will give you the minimum amount of pain to make the relevant coin while you hold down a button. It would be much less convenient to make an eight without one. Since I gave you coin storage, coins you make will be put away automatically, but taking them out again, transferring them to someone else's storage, and pulling one out just far enough to wish on it should all be fairly straightforward."