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"You don't know what a baby is?????? Never mind this place sucks actually! - I don't want to touch your things because on my planet people might get really mad at me if I touched their things."

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"You could tell me what a baby is and why they would get mad if you touched their things, and also my things do not belong to them and I don't have any immediate plans to try to sell my things to people on your planet. I would love it if they visited my library and read the books, some of which I wrote, but I don't really think I would be missing out if they didn't want to borrow this specific notebook and pen."

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"Well you see I'm worried that if I explain why people might not want me to touch their things you'd be mad at me for - being here and being the way that makes people want me not to touch their things. Babies are how people start out on my planet, they grow inside of women and then when they're yea big," cradling gesture, "you squeeze 'em out and then you have a teeny tiny brand new person who doesn't know anything and is so small and soft and wonderful and cute and they grow up into an adult. I used to be a baby and it's weird that you didn't."

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"Well, if we decide it's bad for you to touch things, we should figure that out before you touch more things, and then we should get a bunch of people together to make you a really cool demiplane that's got everything you want in it. Having babies sounds really painful and I'd rather not." Derri is picturing something like popping a zit, only instead of pus there's a baby. And maybe also some pus and blood.

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"Well, yeah, it's not comfy, but then you have a baby. They're the most important thing in the whole world."

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"Because you don't have another way of having new people or for some other reason?"

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"Well, we don't have another way of having new people, but I don't see why you'd even want new people very much if you didn't get to have them be a baby to start out."

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"You can learn what they started out knowing! You can meet them! They might invent things! They might have a cool home bubble! They might be good friends! They might be funny! They might give good hugs! They might be good artists! They don't know everything and they have lots of questions!"

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"Well, yeah, but that's all true true of billions of people I haven't met - I guess on Amenta, that's the planet's name, nobody has a home bubble, but they have a home - and adding a new one just makes it a larger number and that's just not as exciting as a baby!"

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"I guess if giving someone a home means you have to take parts out of other people's or something it wouldn't be very comfortable to have new people showing up but I don't really get why babies are better."

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"Maybe you'd understand it if you saw one but I guess I can't ever have one now. Do you have... plants and animals?"

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"We have plants. Why can't you have a baby now?"

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"Well to get pregnant with a baby I'd need to have sex. With a boy. Of my species. Which I was actually about to do when I wound up here but then I was here instead."

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"You can go home . You've been there, you know what it's like there, you shouldn't have any trouble targeting a portal. You know really interesting things and can put a book in the library that people will definitely want to read, so you can get enough power for it, and you can learn, it's not that complicated. You won't be stuck here for very long if you don't want to be."

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"Oh.

"I might be in trouble if I go home. Also I'm not sure magic will work from there even if it works to get there."

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"That might be a problem but it worked to get you here, right?"

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"Yes... but there was some kind of weird mirror portal snakey thing. Is that the kind of magic you have here?"

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"No, I don't know anything about that yet!"

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"Unfortunately I don't know more than that, just - it appeared, and then the portal sent me where I landed. It's not normal. I don't think it ever happened on Amenta before."

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"Maybe someone will want to take the risk and see if they can get back."

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"Yeah maybe."

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"Are you hoping you can just stay here?"

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"Well, I'd never be able to have a baby but everything else about it here is cool so far."

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"How were you going to have a baby with them without touching their stuff?"

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"There's a kind of person I am and we can touch each other's stuff and that's fine."

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