Idaia and Boots in Milliways
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She can't generate any novel behavior from them but she can put what she saw on a loop.

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"Oh wow."

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"I know. I actually have three friends besides my sister who know--everything--Daphne's my college roommate and I spilled the beans after the third time I woke her up in the middle of the night leaking nightmares of the Helcaraxe, and she convinced me later to tell Gloria and Klaudia--and Gloria's a double art/art history major, beauty is one of the most important things to her, she almost swore retroactive fealty to Feanaro on the spot when I showed her them."

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Bella giggles.

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"Klaudia's actually the reason I don't expect you to be floundering horribly while getting started there and not speaking the language or having a legal identity, her dad has money and is vaguely incompetent at showing forms of affection other than spending it."

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"I could also do the house in the woods thing. Tol Eressëa wasn't big on architecture, I don't think it'd take me that long to reconstruct my bungalow spell. But that'll be nice."

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"That would probably also work, but I suspect stashing you in my dorm room for a couple of days and getting you an apartment in town will be more convenient."

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"Suits me. I gather it's all humans and no subtle artists and I can't get around the language barrier that way?"

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"Yeah, uh, and no one knows magic exists for some reason."

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"...okay, your kind is a one-off, I assume, well, two, and I don't think you can do object magic the way Quendi do without osanwë, but not even the songs? Have you tried the magic songs, do they still actually work?"

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"I've never bothered trying to sing one--it wasn't important in Valinor and any of 'em I can remember I can just play in the original singer's own voice."

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"Does that not work?"

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"It works, but it's possible the difference between Quendi voices and human voices does something?"

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"Yeah, possible. I wasn't focusing on magic songs myself very much, I only remember snatches... but you live in a science world, you could just try it."

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"Yeah."

She starts singing. It's pretty, but nothing happens.

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"...and Bar says Milliways shouldn't be preventing it either."

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"Then maybe it's not so implausible humans don't know about magic."

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"Yeah, hard to know about it if there is none."

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"If I can teach humans from your world wizardry would it be a bad idea to publicize that?"

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"Nah, I've been avoiding going public since I don't think mine's teachable so it'd be a whole lot of unwanted attention for nothing but I think that's a great idea."

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"...unless the Valar get pissy about it."

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"That'd be rich, seeing as how they've utterly neglected to do, like, anything outside of Valinor for at least several millenia."

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"Would you put it past them?"

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"Mm, morally, no, but...I really didn't get the impression they gave that much of a fuck about non-elves or shit going down outside of Valinor, so shit going down among non-elves outside of Valinor probably wouldn't get noticed."

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