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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
Well, that solves the problem of how to feel like a productive member of society in a gift economy.
He giggles. Some people worry less about that in a gift economy.
subtly_artistic
I mean, I could see doing that, but I think I'd be vaguely nervous without a way to sort of 'keep score' and a way to save up ability-to-get-things in case something goes wrong with my acquiring-the-ability-to-get-things procedure. I don't think of myself as really a socially adept person and this is a whole new culture, so I'd worry I'd offend people without noticing and then suddenly nobody would give me stuff. If people want to play with recreational synaesthesia then at least I have a chance to corner them and say 'hey, you gave everybody but me lunch yesterday, what gives' or something.
He nods. You have something Fëanáro wants. That's a lot of saved-up ability to get things, if that makes sense.
subtly_artistic
Is it though? He seems to have some trouble using his ability-to-get-things effectively for himself.
Because he's nine. Anything he wanted, people'd bring to him, he just wants things that no one has, no one can offer, or require leaving the palace.
subtly_artistic
He couldn't get anyone to fetch him the books from my house plot, I had to go get them myself. He can't get left alone, without sneaking around.
Hmm.
I should probably head back to Tirion. I think I ought to spend more time with him than I do.
I should probably head back to Tirion. I think I ought to spend more time with him than I do.
subtly_artistic
Yeah. Now that I have the leaf it might make sense for me to start trying to turn my house plot into a house and actually live in it, and just come here long enough to work with Miriel as long as she can stay up.
Lórien's fun, but I do think that would be a good approach.
subtly_artistic
Plus I feel like a house is just inherently a better place to do things like reinvent wizardry than a forest. A forest is where you reinvent secular druidism!
What on earth is that?
subtly_artistic
Druids are a kind of divine magic user who focus on nature, and sometimes nature gods, instead of a specific god; and there are secular druids who don't incorporate gods at all and just operate directly from - I'm not sure exactly, there are a small handful of secular clerics who claim to run on faith in concepts, I'm not sure how somebody has faith in nature as a concept but that might be what secular druids are doing? Anyway, druids can do healing magic and also a lot of magic to do with plants and animals and they learn to shapeshift.
That sounds fun. Wizardry sounds more fun.
Would it be easier to learn with experiments?
subtly_artistic
Probably. I mean, I don't know for sure because no spellcasters at home are doing experiments, but I have the general impression that divine magic is fuzzier?
If you can get it by worshiping concepts, I'd expect so.
I'd be delighted to study wizardry with you once I've finished Valinor's first written history. I think I'll head back to Tirion in a few days, if that's convenient for you.
Miriel's awake, I can hear her from here.
subtly_artistic
Thank you.
And professional responsibility and a large dose of bewildered curiosity win over the fear that this is going to turn really awkward and confusing again. Bella gets up and approaches Miriel's bed.
And professional responsibility and a large dose of bewildered curiosity win over the fear that this is going to turn really awkward and confusing again. Bella gets up and approaches Miriel's bed.
Hello.