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... Okay.

Is there something in this library explaining sorcerers?
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There's a Sorcerers' Directory of the Continent, and 10 Great Sorcerer Profiles, and Dozens Of Things To Do With Sorcery On A Rainy Day Besides Make It Stop Raining.

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Well he's actually kind of curious about that last one. What can one do with sorcery on a rainy day? Besides, assumingly, flying tricks.

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Play with lightning! Sculpt clouds. Make the rain fall upwards ("try this in isolated areas first"). Prevent rain from falling on you personally. Make tiny indoor dioramas of the landscape complete with weather. Fuck around with the wind. Dramatic timing with thunderclaps. Dissolving nearby drops into thick mist.

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So - is sorcerer a term for someone with weather magic? Odd. Okay. That - doesn't actually explain anything. But it's kind of neat, he supposes. It seems like the woman sleeping has weather magic. Maybe she did something big and is sleeping it off - he knows artificers do that.

With that mystery mostly solved (he'll go read up more on it later, probably, but right now he had bigger problems) he needs to go solve the food situation. He doesn't have any of the local currency. He could probably pry an opal out of something and sell it, but that seems like a fantastically bad idea, even with the lack of guards or people here besides lady-weather-mage.

He comes upon the idea of checking if anything in the garden's edible. There's a book for that, right?
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There are several books on gardening.

They don't recognize most of the plants in the greenhouse.
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... Well that's unhelpful.

Guess he'll have to try the town, then.

He checks on the sleeping woman before he goes. Still asleep despite all efforts to wake her?
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So, so asleep.

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Well, that's unlikely to last forever. He goes and writes a note explaining his situation, apologizes for technically invading her home, and explains where he's gone.

Then he goes off to town to maybe see where the heck he is, how he can get home, and if he can't do either how to not die from starvation.
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On his way down the stairs he meets a woman who is climbing up the stairs. She substantially resembles the sleeper, actually, though she's a good twenty years older.

"...Hello?"
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Adarin looks at her in surprise.

"... Hello!" he replies, in the same language (How is he doing that?) "Um. Sorry, ma'am, I'm - I think there was some kind of magical accident, I'm very lost, could you tell me where I am?"
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"A magical -? I'm sorry. The local sorceress is - indisposed - but there's another a few days' downriver if you take a barge or just want to walk. How lost are you exactly, do you know what country you're in...?"

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"I do not know what country I'm in. I arrived up," he waves towards the palace, "there, maybe an hour or two ago, at the most."

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"Oh. You're in Tanree. Sunlit Satrapy. How did you get into her palace?"

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"... This is going to sound crazy? There was um. A giant snake, with a mirror for a head. It ate me, and then I was in her palace. Uh, I don't recognize those places, do you know how I could get to Casasha? Or Antaurb?"

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"Nnno, I've never heard of them."

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"Oh. Well. There's probably a map I could check, I might have lingered in the library a while longer but I sort of felt like I was intruding..."

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"She - won't mind if you look at her maps," says the woman, shaking her head, continuing up the stairs. "I'll help you, I may as well."

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"Okay. Thank you." He smiles, a little, and follows her up the stairs.

"Any idea when she'll wake up? I left a note..."
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"She's - she's not likely to wake up," murmurs the woman.

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"... Uh? Pardon?"
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"She made another sorceress angry, and now she's under a curse. There've already been a couple of friendly sorcerers through trying to help, but they haven't been able to undo it."

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"I'm sorry. Um. - I'm sorry, I'm missing some terminology, what do you mean by curse exactly?"

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"The other sorceress magicked her asleep. I had thought that maybe she'd wake up on her own, after it had been long enough to drain her momentum - but she hasn't."

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"'Drain her momentum'?"
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