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Salmons and Carmines in Azurite
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Now she has: more sway over Theo than people usually do!

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Theo looks between her and Sadde, then shrugs. "So we think you might have magic."

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"Any ideas how to test it? I mean, I don't really want to go dropping your mugs in case they do break, but that's the only thing we have confirmed to have worked probably-at-least-once."

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"Well... my magic is about emotion, so maybe something along those lines? I'm not sure, really."

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"I didn't want the mug to smash? But I'm not sure it'll be the same type of want if I drop it now because this is like 'here, magic magic' and it… wasn't very noticeable before so I somehow doubt that's going to work all that well."

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"Yeah. And there weren't any other things like that before? Where things you didn't want didn't happen though they should, or did that shouldn't?"

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"… None that come to mind? Uh, I'm pretty good with people and sometimes they do unexpected things but in a good way, not sure if that's a similar thing?"

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"Are they unexpected things you wanted?"

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"Usually? Not always, but it's usually, like – I'd been trying to get this pair, two of my friends, to stop bickering over pointless things and getting worked up and they had a major blow-up, obviously not great, and then I realized I'd have to go clean the mess up, not usually fun, and about two hours later I find out that they'd both agreed to coincidentally go apologize to the other."

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"Okay, not majorly suspicious but, do you have other examples? Might make a pattern."

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She thinks for a few moments but then says, "Nothing coming to mind? There have been other times but none specifically stand out as being weird."

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"Okay... I'm not sure how to test it. Maybe, uh, see if you have telekinesis?"

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She tries looking for something to affect and settles on a pen on a nearby table.

 

"… Doesn't seem so."

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"Okay, so maybe if you try dropping it...?"

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So she picks it up and drops it and tries to not have it hit the floor with as much speed as it should.

Not like it'd break or anything anyway, but still.

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There's a slight draft. Neither of the humans notice it.

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"… Something definitely happened, there. Slight draft."

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"If we're literally unable to notice anything..."

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"It was only a small thing, I'm not sure you'd be able to notice it with your senses, so it might not be messing with your perceptions. At least not this time."

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"If I have a magic that does things for me, that's nice. If it doesn't allow me to know when it does things, that's going to slightly annoy me."

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"Okay, but... Hmm. Is your magic only literally causing things to not fall down fast enough?"

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"It would be better than nothing because it might be useful if I ever get pushed off a cliff but it would mean my friends deciding to make up was a coincidence. Which is totally possible, but it might not literally just be this."

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"Hypotheses?"

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"Things happening how I want them? I am not, however, sure how to narrow that down except by saying 'well clearly it isn't all the time', so it's not a very useful or specific hypothesis."

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"Twice is not a pattern," she sighs.

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