Dante meets some angels
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<...I'm less sure about that.>

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<Usually humans are people's first lives and I guess you could a planet in the same dimension as prime?> Jubal offers dubiously. <But if you don't have any magic at all that sounds unlikely.>

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<Not that we class as such, no, but our definitions might vary in the boundaries – computers, nuclear power?>

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<The Internet, flying aircraft?> suggests Dante.

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<Never heard of those first three. We have flying aircraft, but they are hard to enchant.>

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<We do it nonmagically. Somehow.>

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<Computers are devices that do maths on very small numbers, but very fast and in parallel, then build it up to – animated interfaces that can do complicated things like play visual recordings? Or, when networked with other computers, form the Internet, which lets people communicate over long distances.> Pause. <Nuclear power is, uh, complicated.>

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<All of that sounds complicated and we probably should cast detect magic on those things to be sure.>

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<I don't have any magic detection, do you? -No, scratch that. We should prioritize things that are going to be useful.>

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<– Right, useful.>

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<Which would be…?> asks Anna. <What are you – what do you have to offer, what are you hoping to do?>

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<Pretty much, yeah...>

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<Do you have any quick answers to those questions? Ones that might help us figure out where to aim our efforts?>

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<I think we should figure out a way to go home, which might take a while or a way to stay here for the long term. We have magic, our angelic magic is shareable even.>

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<I can share spellwords' magic. I have a couple of spells memorized from years ago.>

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<Angelic magic being which subset of it?>

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<Angelic magic is a different kind. It involves making vows to get powers in return.>

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<The kind we've seen is all spellwords, then?>

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<Are spellwords straightforward to teach?>

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<Yeah, we haven't showed you any angelic magic. And spellwords require one to re-read them each time - they are fire-and-forget - but nothing more complicated than that.>

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<My vows improve my senses but you wouldn't notice that. Jubal, they might not count as relevantly human for spellwords? We could check though.>

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<We seem to match to the concept, at least. How do you propose checking?>

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<I can analyze magic in case you have any that is just really, really suppressed.>

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<Maybe the world doesn't automatically grant spellwords, but they could use the alternative ways of acquiring. I don't know the ritual->

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<- I have the spellword that brings forth spellwords and it's supposed to work on people that don't already have the kind of magic already.>

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