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lost!fëanor in wormverse
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He doesn't care.

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Eventually she manages by promising them a slightly earlier recess and access to Epic.

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Oh good. He works on his artifact.

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And the kids work on math and then move on to grammar.

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...this is a weird and oversimplified and awfully prescriptivist way of teaching Portuguese grammar. He bites his tongue. Artifact.

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Portuguese grammar is really​ complicated and has lots of verb tenses and everything is gendered and sentence structure accepts very little variation although they play fast and loose with subjects and sentences that only have predicates are common. But they're not looking at all of that, they're seven, they're learning very basic stuff like spelling and how to conjugate some verbs.

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This world does not think very highly of its seven-year-olds. 

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The seven-year-olds are not struggling but it's difficult to say that they're much beyond this level.

And then: recess.

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This is the part he is supposed to get something out of. He finishes his artifact block because he's so close and then he goes outside with them.

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And this one girl walks up to him and says—" You can really bring my mom back?"

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"Not until winter but then yes. If she's dead. If she's not dead I can do it right now."

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"...she's dead."

    "How can you do it right now if she's not?" someone else asks. "You can make live people but not dead ones?"

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"I can heal or fetch live people. I can't make any kind of people but I have a way to get there."

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    "Why not?" asks one.

        "How do you do it?" asks another.

"Can I get wings, too?" asks a third.

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"Because if I try they come out sleeping and they won't wake up. It's my power. Healing is - replacing the broken bits of someone, it's a different part of my power. I can give anyone wings but if I give them to kids you'd have problems later because they won't grow with you."

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"Why won't they?"

"What are all your powers?"

"How do you do that?"

"How'd you get powers?"

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"I can make stuff! And I can sort of shoo stuff I've made and if I make more of alive people they can sorta bounce around between them. Making is really easy it hardly feels like anything. I dunno how getting powers works exactly it just happens to people sometimes."

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"But you can also heal?"

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"Yeah!"

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"That's weird."

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"I guess!"

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And the kids ask for more stuff to be conjured.

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Being a demon at people is the best kind of social skills practice.

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Older and younger kids hear the news as the ones "his age" spread and now lots more want things. Teachers and teacher assistants show up at the edges to figure out what's going on.

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What is going on is that he is a demon!!! Making things! For anyone who wants them!!

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