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"Did you by any chance just call me adorable?"

powerispain

"Yes!"

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"I am adorable," he says, beaming.

powerispain

She beams and twirls around. "You are adorable, the sun is shining, the garden is beautiful and I am not in class. It is a good day."

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"Class is important," he says mock-chidingly.

powerispain

"Not this class! I am in this class because everyone else needs it, so everyone has to take it. I don't need it."

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"You have some kind of special circumstances and that class was actually useless to you...?"

powerispain

She nods. "Yes. I am going to be a Great Mage someday. I don't need to learn how to use a little bit of magic to get a big result."

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"Missing parts of that. You're going to be a major wizard like your delightful not-a-king...?"

powerispain

"Yes. Yes I am."

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"And that class is for people who are going to be mere ordinary wizards, but you have to take it anyway because bureaucracy?"

powerispain

"It's slightly more complicated than that, but essentially yes."

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Giggle.

"I'm pretty sure I'm going to be a Great Mage too," he adds brightly.

powerispain

"Ooh?"

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"The pain thing," he not-really-explains.

powerispain

She taps one of her temples. "Mind thing. Atennesi speak you mind thing?"

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"Yeah, he mentioned it. It seems like it balances out adequately, and I'm very, very used to hauling my mind along unnatural tracks to get away from undesirable results."

powerispain

"Balance..." she makes a so-so hand gesture. "Some. Not all. These are some flowers," she says, gesturing at a patch. "These are all of the flowers." A sweeping gesture that encompasses the whole garden.

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"Some but not all? Yeah, well. Back to the part about unnatural tracks, then." He grins. "I mean, I don't know for sure that I'm going to turn out to be major wizard material. But I'm very interested to find out."

powerispain

"Resistance," she says. She makes a fist and moves it through the air. "No resistance." She puts her other hand up to slow it. "Resistance." She taps her temple. "Mind resistance."

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"And what actual characteristics correspond to mental resistance?"

powerispain

"Many."

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"Is it more like," he gestures to one side, "naturally having the characteristics that oppose a certain magic's effects, or," the other hand, "some sort of idiosyncratic magical property people have?"

powerispain

"Oh. First one," she says, gesturing to the relevant side.

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