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"Does it have to have solid borders like a room, or can it just be a frame? Like... an open cabinet."

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Isabella thinks. "I can work with an open cabinet," she determines finally.

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"In that case, do you wanna cast cooling spells on some server racks?"

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"Sure. I can probably do without, but if you happen to have a live seedling of any sort of evergreen - potted is fine - that you won't need back, it'd help," Isabella says.

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"I could get one," he says.

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"It'll save me about half an hour. If it'll take longer than that don't bother," Isabella shrugs.

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"If it can be a teeny tiny one, I can just get it from Bar," he points out. "Which definitely won't take half an hour."

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"She does live plants?" Isabella says. "Yeah, arbitrarily teeny tiny as long as it is alive and it's not a problem if I kill it."

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"I've definitely heard she won't give out live animals but I've never tested whether she'll give out live plants," he says. "Let's find out!"

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Off they go.

"Hi, Bar!" says Tony. "I would like to order a potted plant, can I do that?"
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The replying napkin reads, No living things are distributed except the typical components of yogurt and so on. My apologies. I can't imagine why there would be any suspicion about how our patrons would care for them.

It is a sarcastic napkin.

"Oh well," shrugs Isabella.
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Tony snorts.

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"Dried rosemary on his dime?" Isabella asks the bar.

A little bottle of it appears.

"This'll do," she says, picking it up and tossing it and catching it.
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"Okay!"

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"Let's!"

And out the front door they go.

"Hi Jarvis," he says as they step out into his living room. "This iiiiiiis... I totally forgot your name, I do that, I'm sorry."
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"Isabella Amariah," says Isabella patiently. "Just Isabella if you don't want to be quite that formal." She peers around the house with fascination.

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"Pleased to meet you," says a sourceless, pleasantly English voice.

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"...Likewise!" says Isabella, not entirely sure what to make of the talking house but gamely polite to it anyway. Path hoots. "Oh, and this is Pathalan."

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"Pleased to meet you as well," Jarvis says gravely.

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"Isabella's a witch, she's gonna cast cooling spells on the server racks," Tony explains. "Which ones do you want?"

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"C through F, please," says Jarvis.

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"Okay," says Tony. "This way!"

He leads Isabella through the house.

There is a lot of house.

It's a fairly short trip to the relevant room, though: large for a closet, small for anything else, and populated with metal racks labeled C1, C2, D1, and so on. Each rack houses several computers, individually labeled with names like C1_CANIS and E2_ERITHACUS.
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"Just C through F? Okay." Isabella walks by each of the C through F racks, sprinkling a small handful of rosemary on each one and composing a poem in her head. "The rosemary will disappear after casting. This might take me a couple of tries, because machines are involved so I have to get the verse exactly right," she cautions.

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