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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 -
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subtly_artistic
subtly_artistic
"Good point, over the course of forever people will probably get around to all kinds of things they don't try to fit in."
He looks satisfied. "You worry that I'll be a bad god."
subtly_artistic
"Most of them are," she points out. "All the way up through 'mediocre'."
"But they're not trying. The Valar are what gods look like when they're trying and they've only known us for a few years and they haven't done anything as bad as the gods in your world all do."
subtly_artistic
"That does seem to be true, although sometimes I wonder if some of the gods in my world did try and then gave up."
"Well, you can't think I'd give up."
"Even if all I did was get rid of all the bad gods and then I forgot to help everyone because I wanted to learn all the languages in the universe or something, and no one reminded me because they were scared of me, there still wouldn't be any bad gods and science would work and people could make their own lives better."
subtly_artistic
"That's true. Well, if you did the science part somehow. It's not gods doing that."
"I'll figure it out.
And I don't think I'd get distracted, not while there were children crying because their mothers were going to die."
And I don't think I'd get distracted, not while there were children crying because their mothers were going to die."
He hugs her back. He is clinging a little.
subtly_artistic
Well, then she can put him on her lap and go on hugging him when she says, "Your father said it would be fine for you to learn safe cantrips. I know a spell that does a few seconds of illusion sound and I think you could use it to pronounce Valar words."
He bounces, again, even though this kind of involves kicking her. "Really? He did? I want to learn! Show me!!"
"I thought he wouldn't! I thought he'd say it was too dangerous! How do I learn?"
"Not on purpose, I was just really excited."
subtly_artistic
"It would be nice of you to apologize even though it was an accident."
"Are you not going to teach me?"
subtly_artistic
"I'm going to keep suggesting that you should apologize for kicking me first, for sure."
"I apologize for kicking you now will you teach me?"
subtly_artistic
She will call that good for now. She puts him off her lap and gets up and fetches the relevant scroll. "All right. Want to see me cast it first?"
He nods.
subtly_artistic
She pulls a bit of wool out of her bag. "Some spells have a material component, which is a bit of something specific to the spell that you have to have on hand and disappear as part of the casting. This one does wool or wax, and wool's pleasanter to carry around so that's what I use, yesterday I went and got a bunch off a sheep. Spells also sometimes have magic words or gestures; this one has both."
And she casts and six seconds of music play.
And she casts and six seconds of music play.