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Two girls are moving their hands through the air and speaking together in perfect parallel.
Two girls are looking expectantly at a circle of red chalk on their floor.
Two girls have done something exceptionally stupid.
Nick in Elcenia
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<The pond's safe but not really ideal. There's a river with a calm spot if you go a few miles east by southeast.>
<Wait, you know I'm by the pond? Are you still in my mind for more than purely voluntary communication? I thought I made it clear I would not like that.>
<The pond is the only conceivably swimmable place you could have easily walked to without knowing where it is,> says Keo. <Calm down.>
<Calming. It's hard not to be a little paranoid being near people with abilities vastly greater than my own.>
<Anyway. Do you know how to swim? It's potentially dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.>
<I do not know how to swim. I had planned to find still, shallow water and play it by ear.>
<The pond will work as far as still and shallow goes but there's a fair amount of algae in it and the bottom's very silty; you won't come out clean.>
<How does one clean clothes around here? I didn't see detergent in any of the shops.>
<Magic, usually. Enchanted baskets, but some people just learn a household spell for it - you'll want the basket.>
<How do I get a credit stamp?>
<You deposit some money with a bank and ask for one.>
<May I have some money with which to do that? I will promise to use it only for things like the laundry basket, which the school should owe me since I'm stuck here by a student.>
<I'll set aside an expense account for you with Espaal United Financial.>
<Can I find an office of that bank in town and ask for a stamp or some coins?>
<Yes. Do you want Saasnil to show you the way or do you want me to directly supply directions?>
<I'll find it myself. I was planning to wander the city for a while anyway.>
So he walks to the city, writes down the street where he arrives at the sudden wall of buildings, and takes random turns.
So he walks to the city, writes down the street where he arrives at the sudden wall of buildings, and takes random turns.
There are quite a lot of things in this city. The residential areas have very tall houses organized in circles around shared lawns; the commercial areas, interspersed at intervals of easy walking distance around and between the residential sections and much more grid-organized, have groceries and theaters and bookshops and commercial casting outfits and public lights and charity offices and newspaper stands and calligraphers and witch shops with shelves of potions. Plant nurseries and scoot repairs and the central international temple of the most divine Kovin and furniture stores and restaurants and a music school and - there's a bank. Espaal United Financial.
On the way to the bank he buys a newspaper. He reads it while waiting in line. When the tellers are ready for him,
"I was told that I've been given an expense account with, uh Binaarlev Academy. I'd like to get a credit stamp for it."
"I was told that I've been given an expense account with, uh Binaarlev Academy. I'd like to get a credit stamp for it."
"Binaaralav?" asks the young elf lady.
"Apparently. The wizard school. Keo and Kanaat run it. If you couldn't tell, I'm under a translation spell."
"And what's your name?"
"Nick." Nope. Nope. She only gets the first part.
"Nik what?"
"Can you look me up some other way? I have a strong dislike for my last name."
"I need your full legal name for the records," she says.