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"Well, it's probably possible, but I haven't been experimenting on the grounds that that's the sort of experiment with an unacceptably high likelihood of the result being 'and now things are on fire that shouldn't be.'"

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"Can you make fire stop or just start?"

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"I can make fire stop, but most things that I'd rather not have on fire would be significantly damaged in the span of my reaction time."

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Nod, nod. "Can fire hurt demons?"

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"Like any at all? Could you go in the sun?"

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"I couldn't get to the sun, and it would probably be pretty boring, but theoretically."

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"I mean, it would be cool to say I'd done it, but I'm already above my projected coolness target, I make art and wear berets and nifty scarves instead of hanging around mouldy castles tempting kings to hubris."

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Cackle. "How would you tempt kings to hubris?"

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"Whisper in their ears about how great they are and how destiny has chosen them yadda yadda so they make terrible life choices because they've been convinced they can get away with it."

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"Don't make terrible life choices," she stage whispers. "You can't get away with it."

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"I pride myself on making only good life choices," Mehitabel whispers back.

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"Good! Assuming God has given you some kind of special purpose and therefor you can do no wrong never ends well."

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"...What? Are you religious? I'm not saying anything against God, assuming they exist, which they probably do, but, y'know, historical precedent, Inquisitions and Pogroms and Crusades oh my."

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"I just thought of something funny."

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Mehitabel shakes her head. "Anyway, the inquisitions and pogroms and crusades were all bad."

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"Quite. Although I think maybe the Crusades had positive long-term side effects in the form of improved trade, that doesn't really justify them."

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"They could probably have gotten that some other less murdery way!"

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"Presumably, although I think part of the problem was that they didn't know to trade...I don't know, before my time."

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"It doesn't seem very complicated."

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"History isn't really my area."

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