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They make their way out the emergency exit unmolested.
Salmons and Carmines in Azurite
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in-the-breeze
"You don't happen to have typical memory loss or, like, inattention or something? Typically?"
subtle_influence
"You keep forgetting you have to do something to the pen," she explains.
slide-into-place
"Inattention? Because I can remember dropping the pen and I was able to remember it then but it just wasn't important because something else was happening?"
subtle_influence
"Huh. Alright, I guess. Weird magic that makes things you want to happen kinda happen in inconspicuous and plausibly deniable ways, and then makes you stop paying attention to it if you do it too much."
slide-into-place
"Or maybe I'm just stuck with some screwy inattention when it comes to doing tests like this. No guarantee magic has to be useful, is there?"
in-the-breeze
"Well, so far it seems like it has been, at least a bit, but that could be an issue of our sample."
subtle_influence
"It's somewhat under your conscious control. And it did manage to stop a mug from breaking, and possibly made weird good things happen in your life with other people... In a plausibly deniable way... Hmm."
slide-into-place
"If it even did that, which we don't have confirmed because this could all just be coincidence." Pause. "Probably not with the mug, though, since Theo says it acted weirdly."
in-the-breeze
"It definitely stopped. So you at least have the mug going for you, with the drawback of inattention here."
subtle_influence
"Mug and pens, there is no way the pens weren't doing something and you just happened to become distracted while trying to do them. What's interesting, though, is that it took a few tries for you to get distracted."
in-the-breeze
"Pens were sort of… probably but not certainly affected after the first one. But yeah, that's interesting. Could try dropping something else, see if it's a certain amount per object."
He fetches a key.
slide-into-place
Evelyn takes it! And drops it, aiming for it to, like, not hit the floor.
It doesn't really have anywhere else to go. It hits the floor.
slide-into-place
After there's no response from Theo, she picks it up and tries aiming for – slower at the floor?
It catches on her finger before dropping.
slide-into-place
Hmph.
She picks it up again and aims for it to, without using her body, land slower.
It doesn't actually do anything, as far as she can tell.
