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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.
Miles in Elcenia
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"I'm going to be expelled!" exclaims the darker girl. "They will, they'll throw me out -"
"No, look, okay, you're my backup, if me getting a familiar doesn't cut it, okay, if nothing else they have to let you stay in school," says the blonde firmly. "And then when I do have a familiar I can unsummon you, and then if you'd rather be here than there I can just resummon you with some better smaller spell."
"No, look, okay, you're my backup, if me getting a familiar doesn't cut it, okay, if nothing else they have to let you stay in school," says the blonde firmly. "And then when I do have a familiar I can unsummon you, and then if you'd rather be here than there I can just resummon you with some better smaller spell."
"But I do have to tell my mom -"
"Don't!"
"I have to, what's your plan that doesn't involve her finding out, keeping him in that circle forever?"
Sniffle.
"Don't!"
"I have to, what's your plan that doesn't involve her finding out, keeping him in that circle forever?"
Sniffle.
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"I would really rather not be kept in this circle forever," he says. "It seems like it would be awkward and uncomfortable."
"And someone would see him eventually and we can't do that, Saasnil, come on. You're not going to be expelled, okay? Look, he's not even angry at us, he was someplace he didn't want to be. You'll be fine."
Sniffle.
"I'm telling her."
Sniffle.
"I'm telling her."
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"I have absolutely no desire to see you expelled, if that counts for anything."
The door opens.
An extremely magic person who looks like a green-haired twenty-year-old woman in a sundress walks in.
An extremely magic person who looks like a green-haired twenty-year-old woman in a sundress walks in.
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She is so extremely magic. And magic in very particular ways, specifically among others the way where she can do nearly arbitrary things to minds.
"Hello," she says. "I'm very sorry for the - partial convenience, reportedly. Do you mind if I check you over to see if it's safe to let you out of the circle?"
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"Um," he says.
Okay, it is probably rude to stare. And from a purely functional standpoint his permission doesn't matter a bit, so the fact that she's asking for it is a good sign.
"Sure, all right."
Okay, it is probably rude to stare. And from a purely functional standpoint his permission doesn't matter a bit, so the fact that she's asking for it is a good sign.
"Sure, all right."
The extremely magic person thinks for a moment, doing a light, un-felt scan of his dispositions, and then steps forward and smudges the chalk line. The ward vanishes at once.
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Un-felt but sensed. So at least he will be able to tell whenever she does things to him, and roughly what the things are.
"Thank you," he says. "So what now?"
"Thank you," he says. "So what now?"
"Now," says Keo, "we set you up with the basic necessities. Korulen can take you shopping at your convenience, we can put you in an empty room and you can use the school cafeteria."
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"Well, that's a significant step up from where I just was," he says, smiling. "Oh - I'm Miles, by the way."
"I'm Keo, that's my daughter Korulen, that's our student Saasnil."
"This way," Keo adds, leading him out of the room. "Incidentally, while you are currently stuck here, it's entirely possible for summons to be handled reversibly and safely, and people from your original world are probably not stuck there. Or we can just send them letters for you."
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"...A letter would be... very helpful," he says, following. "If I'm lucky, my family hasn't yet received word that I'm missing, but it should be arriving any day now."
"Korulen will draw a sending circle for an inanimate object. Saasnil's getting you some paper and graphite." She steps into a little dead end of a room at the end of the hall. At least that's what it looks like visually. "In here."
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Miles steps inside, examining the functionality of the little room with his Sense. "Convenient. What's it called?"
"A lift." She names a hallway and the lift proceeds.
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"So, um... I hope this isn't an impolite question, but what's with all the mind magic?"
"I'm a unique green-group dragon," she says. "Standard green-groups are empaths; I have extra."
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"I... see. My next question was going to be 'what's with all the rest', but I think 'dragon'... partially answers it."
"I'm shapeshifted," she explains as the lift comes to a halt. She leads him to an unoccupied room, like Saasnil and Korulen's. "Will this do?"