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the badger, the witch, and the wardrobe
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It's good to be wearing her clothes. The loaner dress didn't suit her and textiles are probably annoyingly valuable around here.

She flips through the contract, Sending its pages to her phone as she goes. It can parse S-expressions better than she can, and use rainbow parentheses and indentation. She can start by reducing the linguistic macros to language she finds more readable and sees how things look.

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Scanned, it's not more than thirty megabytes, and once most of the macros have been resolved, it turns into approximately six hundred megabytes of text in approximately the same format as that of a contract she's used to. It's clear that the macros are the way that Axis expresses templated content transclusions, and much of the additional text is the same cautions and boilerplate transcluded again and again. 

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30MB of un-expanded text is absolutely ridiculous. War and Peace is famously long and its plain text is only 3.2MB. She is not going to sign it without a lot of consultation, none of which she can do without Sending.

She configures her phone to save power and heads back into the anti-magic field.

"My machine can assist with the more automatic steps of evaluating this contract, but can't tell me if it's fair. At this length, I can't tell either. I'm going to have to discuss it with a lawyer or a diviner or something. In the meantime, do you want to see how the contract looks on my machine? There's some neat typesetting tricks."

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The Prince nods enthusiastically. 

"That would be very interesting. Let me check with upstairs first- I wouldn't want to have to retire to Axis over something small like this. Takes a few minutes?"

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The Prince gestures, and a large desk that smells like a spice bazaar descends from the same place as the book did. Supplies for a spell are carefully arranged on its surface in gorgeous carved ivory boxes, and at the edge, a pair of curlicued curved bars of gold meet, at an angle, in a glorious jeweled starburst.

"Do you have any questions for my Lord Abadar?"

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"I think we want to ask about the explosion risks for various topics now, do you want me to pick opaque labels for them? Also about the crops. Oh, and whether he can do warlocks now that he's seen a witch."

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"Just write the questions down- maximum of sixteen- it costs Him less to reply in binary, so true-false are preferred answers- and I'll incorporate the sealed note in the rite."

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"And you wanted to know whether my typesetting advice is a problem for you, right? Is that included in the sixteen?"

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"Devices like yours are a common sight in some neighborhoods in Axis. I just don't want to learn any information about them I'm not supposed to have. I get seventeen questions."

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"Okay. It's not about the device, it's more like saying, uh, what's a good reference, that maybe people would like books more if the letter at the start of each section was big and had drawings around it. I don't know if people really feel that way but it was popular for a while in my world."

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The Prince bites her lip in some embarrassment.  

"That- might not require a full-on divine question session."

The table swoops away. "Okay, show me."

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"Would you prefer to see it on the device or for me to prestidigitate a little illusion? The illusion won't work in your throne room but I can hold one right outside."

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"Oh, an illusion would be lovely!"

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She steps back out and illusions a brief section of the contract onto the front of the contract's cover. Subsections are indented, and each matching pair of parentheses has its own color, with inner parentheses more blue-ward than outer parentheses.

"For long enough documents you repeat the colors in a cycle. Let me know when you're done looking?"

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"Oooh! That is sensible, but will require the scribes to have an assortment of extremely expensive inks."

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"Right. That's too bad. Hmm. It doesn't have to be a rainbow, maybe you could do different shades of inks that are less expensive? If you dilute ink does it make a lighter color or does it just work less well, for all I know it just works less well. And sometimes you can vary the bracket shape, if there's any room to do that without it meaning different things."

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"Yes, I should imagine we could do a subtle set of brown and black and red shades. We'd want to pre-mix the inks, to ensure that the starting parentheses are the same color as the ending ones. Perhaps numbering them, with a subtle tiny number on top"

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"Hmm, maybe. If you're numbering them, the numbers don't have to cycle like the colors would. On the other hand it's less eye-catching."

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