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In a bar, there is a girl.
She looks like she has saved up all of her decadent and slothful impulses for a solid decade and is indulging them all at once. She is sprawled on a couch with a book she's only half-reading, and an ice cream sundae, and smiiiiiiling.
kithabel and milan in milliways
ertia
Does he want to be a throw pillow, with pretty tassels and a picture of his face embroidered on one side opposite a cross-stitch of his rear? Does he want to sprout seventeen pairs of wings, some in highly uncomfortable places? Does he want to be able to send his left hand off by itself on adventures with verbal instructions as long as the verbal instructions include that it is to slap someone hard across the face? Does he want to emit dissonant chords in a variety of instrumental sounds at noon and midnight every day, or constantly if he changes time zones quickly?
Does he want to be a chair, upholstered in human skin, which screams when sat on? Does he want to speak in dactylic hexameter? Does he want to have a brain made of noodles which will otherwise function entirely as normal? Does he want to sprout a grape vine whenever he sits down for more than five minutes, from his right hip?
first-and-final
Nooooooo. He wants none of those things.
Okay, I'm all done playing with the magics. Should we leave a bead with Berete in case she needs more help later?
Okay, I'm all done playing with the magics. Should we leave a bead with Berete in case she needs more help later?
ertia
The omnipotent sorceress is blindsided. Blindsided, I tell you.
And then: who else wants some omnipotence? Anybody hanging around the bar looking like they come from a world beset by fiends or peppered by magics or something?
And then: who else wants some omnipotence? Anybody hanging around the bar looking like they come from a world beset by fiends or peppered by magics or something?
sicaria
Here is a girl wearing a very nice grey dress with a loose knee-length skirt, standing very still by the door and looking around with exceptional alertness.
ertia
"Well, that might require more than the application of brute omnipotence, but I can still probably help." Hey Milan, got a government reportedly needs overthrowing.
sicaria
The girl in need of an overthrown government looks at him.
After half a second she returns her attention to Kithabel and says, "Once a year, two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts are selected by lottery and transported to an arena where they contend against each other and environmental obstacles until there is only one left alive. That is not by any means the only problem, but it may be the most obvious example."
