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Sylvi looks at the floating beverage. "...So like puppetting but without the objects needing to have moving parts and... you can put them in midair."
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"I don't have a puppet on hand to show you... if there's an object with moving parts, and it's not already another kind of servant, I can take it as a puppet and move its moving parts."
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"If it has a spinnable propeller or something I can make a puppet fly, but only if it's shaped right."
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"Puppets aren't the only kind of servant. I mostly work with shines, but I can do the other kinds too at least a little."
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"They're little spots of light, peeled off so they can move around on their own. You can puppet them or program them to move around on their own."
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Computers are complicated objects with tame electricity in somewhat the same way that shines are tame light, which perform elaborate computations and can control appropriately set up other objects. Their programming is analogous in many ways to shines or automata, less like golems but the resemblance is not inconsiderable.
"I've been working on using a project to do computation with shines... I suppose it's nice to know I'm on the right track."
"I've been working on using a project to do computation with shines... I suppose it's nice to know I'm on the right track."