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"They won't be able to find it."

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"That seems unlikely."

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"It's true."

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"How would your possessions enable contacting them?"

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"I'll show you. I don't know how to explain in Anitami."

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"Get him a translator, don't return his possessions or have them in the same room but if he's got an explanation of how to use them to contact someone go ahead and do that," she says to the guards.

 

They nudge him to move.

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He decides to pretend to exclusively speak an extremely obscure dialect of Chinese and not be able to understand Mandarin any better than he can Anitami.

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"Sorry," says the translator, "We can track down someone who speaks that tomorrow."

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...sigh.

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They track down someone who speaks it for him!

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"The - stick - among my effects will let me talk to someone else who has a similar stick. Like a phone, but not a phone."

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"Can you give someone else instructions on how to use it?"

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"It has security features and only works for me."

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"That sucks, man, I'm sorry. Do you want me to translate the criminal proceedings yesterday or did you understand them well enough?"

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"I think I understood them but I didn't know how to explain the security features of the stick. I just need it for a minute."

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"You haven't met many skypeople, have you? They aren't going to give back your stuff."

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"I know they want to auction it, I only need it for a moment."

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He translates this, gets an answer. "Yeah. No."

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"They can totally watch me while I'm doing it."

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"We're not even talking to anyone with the authority to allow that."

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"Why not?"

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"It's not how skypeople work. The blue ones make the decisions, everyone else just does them."

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"Just a moment."

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Translator translates this, gets an answer. "No."

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The wizard continues not to think of any effective ways to get his belongings.

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