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[I'll save that one for later.]

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[All right. Kolya, you are not fully up to speed and may as well become so - questions?]

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[Who are you?] he asks plaintively.

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[Bella. I'm a mint with a pet masochist and I'm going to take over the world.]

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[Yikes,] says Kolya.

[Don't worry, she's a nice world conqueror,] says Lazarus.
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[I am so nice,] Bella says. [I'm playing take-over-the-world on hard mode where you don't do unethical things. It interferes with doing a speedrun, unfortunately.]

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Both of them crack up.

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Bella smiles to herself. [Any interesting crate contents?] she asks Lazarus.

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[First I have to solve the problem of how to open them. I haven't spotted any convenient crowbars.]

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[Did you use up the square on color-changing or did a triangle manage it? Square will get you a crowbar. I don't know how careful an inventory they keep of the place, though, so perhaps not a first resort.]

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[The square went to colour-changing. What sorts of things do triangles do?]

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[Little things. Not necessarily useless things. Flick a switch you can't reach. Distract somebody with an itch someplace they can't reach. You could probably pry a nail out of a crate with one. You could set a very small fire - which you'd want to make sure wouldn't turn into a not very small fire, since you can't escape at the moment. Anything you could do by yourself in five to ten minutes without magic, you can probably do it with a triangle instantaneously - with exceptions, like, I don't think triangles can talk. They'll heal little bruises and scratches.]

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[Hmm,] says Lazarus. [I think I'll save them for now.]

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[All right. Kolya, further questions?]

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[Why are you taking over the world?]

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[It is in need of new management. My go-to example here is that malaria needs to go away, but there are many other things that also need to go away.]

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[I guess you are a nice world conqueror,] Kolya muses.

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[Yes. But I can't just hex up a designer cure for malaria or casually render mosquitoes extinct, because I don't know who else has magic, or what they want, or what they'll do if I get in their way.]

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[Chris the creepy witch lady has magic,] says Kolya.

[I don't know why you keep calling her that,] says Lazarus.

[Because she's creepy and witchy.]
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[Yes. I know she does. I'm also curious about who she's protecting,] Bella says.

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[She's creepy enough all by herself,] Kolya says stubbornly.

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[All right, but is she a mint? Does she have power over mints? A protective power will not get her far by itself, if she's by herself.]

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[She wasn't a mint last I checked,] says Lazarus.

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[Exactly. She's protecting one, or she knows some, or her protectee knows some - or she isn't involved in the yoinking. The yoinking has mint written all over it.]

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[I've never gotten the impression that her protectee was anything special except by virtue of being protected by an admittedly somewhat scary woman,] says Lazarus.

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