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Do you want me to stay or go? she asks him.

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I wanted you to leave me there.

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She takes that as a 'go'. She goes.
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Miriel comes by that evening to thank her.

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"You're welcome."
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"I have no idea what we'll do."

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"Confining him to the palace seems like a bad idea to me."

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"He should lose privileges for doing dangerous things, otherwise his actions have no consequences." But she doesn't say it with much conviction.

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"It would probably work better if the privileges in question weren't ones that make him wish even more fervently that he'd gotten away with it, come up with some ward to make my spell bounce off or something."

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"What do you think we should do?"

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"- in the loss of privileges vein or elsewhere?"

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She shrugs helplessly.

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"If you must take a privilege you could stop letting him teach magic classes. He was leaving his students behind anyway, so it's not a point of comparison, and it might be at least marginally more effective at indicating that the problem is irresponsibility and not something external."

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"Socializing with other children is probably good for him, though."

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"The classes are held at the school, not at the palace, so if the default option's not letting him out of the palace..."

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"We could relocate them."

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"You could," acknowledges Bella.

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"I just don't want him getting himself killed."

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"I know. Me either. The outside of the palace is not what can get him killed."

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"The Outer Lands can."

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"Yeah."

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"He thinks he's invincible. I always wanted that for my family. But I wanted it to be accompanied by, well, actual incinvibility."

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"Yeah. We're not there."

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"And he's too impatient."

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Nod. "I almost thought I was getting somewhere with that, you know?"

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