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This is the wrong building. She could have sworn the RA said "take a left at Emily, first on your right", and Bella did exactly that, and here she is and the rooms in this place don't even seem to be numbered, it's all letters and names. She's not going to find Intro to Subtle Therapy in Room 206 like that. Maybe the RA meant take a left after Emily, not before Emily? Maybe she was supposed to go the other way around the quad and approach Emily from the other direction? She's going to be late.
Bella tries to get out of the letter-named-rooms building to go ask Emily for directions, but that's not a stairwell after all, and there's someone shouting at her not to come in and she flinches back and clonks her elbow on the door and boots or no boots she's down and she -
- is falling -
subtly_artistic
subtly_artistic
"Do you think it will work better if I mention it before, or after you sit playing with a prestidigitation for an hour?"
"She's almost all better except she's like me and as bad at pretending as I am and she's pretending to be happy to see me, she isn't really happy."
He's fiddling with the scroll. "I probably have to sleep before I do more magic but I really hate sleeping. I was hoping writing would count as quiet enough but I don't think it does."
subtly_artistic
"Yeah, it's not really about being quiet or even still, it's about not doing anything effortful."
subtly_artistic
"I guess effortful's not the thing either. Restful. I assume you're pretty quiet and still when you're sleeping, however little you do it, and the closer you're behaving to as-though-you're-sleeping the better."
subtly_artistic
"Well, if you found one it would definitely be a discovery because I've never heard of anyone who didn't need to rest or wait at all."
subtly_artistic
"It would be very epic. Although even without figuring out a special recharging trick you can get to the point where you can pretty much use magic all day - lots of practice to build up your reserves and making magic items to do it with when you do run low. And there's magic to make it so you need less rest, though not none."
"I don't need rest anyway! Except to do magic. And I like the idea of being epic by inventing something instead of fighting things."
subtly_artistic
"There's epic artificers but they still only technically count as epic if they can use their gear in a fight. You can be awesome without fighting things, don't get hung up on 'epic'."
"I'm going to fight all the bad gods," he says, "I just want to mostly invent things not fight them."
subtly_artistic
"Well, you're writing a novel. Unless it's going to be a lot shorter than it sounds and just be a short story. Comic books don't take magic either, just drawings and speech bubbles -" She osanwës the vague concept, hasn't read enough comics to use a specific example.