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He can do that too.

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Paulo asks a bunch of similar things, both for making and remaking, including properties like size, material, mass, whether it's alive, and some more subjective ones like "can be sat on" or "can be considered a toy."

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He's having to do the sorting manually, but it's kind of fun. Things appear and get dropped in intergalactic space somewhere.

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Won't the eventual aliens who find these things (if they're not swallowed by a gravitational well first) be confused!

He's curious about whose understanding of 'can be considered a toy' and so on the power's using, and he'll perform some more tests to determine whether it's Epic's or something more general.

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It will turn out to pretty much be Epic's because Epic is doing it manually.

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The erroneous conclusions he's drawing are fascinating.

"Okay, batch number one done. The basic applications of your power are pretty fascinating. We'll go with batch number two, I'm going to see how it behaves with ordinary matter."

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"Isn't that what we've been doing?"

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"No, all of these things were things you conjured. I was testing how much basic control you had over what you appeared and disappeared when you'd made it all."

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"Okay."

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"Be right back." He exits the room and a couple of minutes later returns with a backpack full of stuff. "Right, then! For the record," and he looks into the camera, "Batch two: exploitation, part one, interactions with already-existing matter." He looks at Epic again. "Also for the record, can you please try to unmake—" he grabs a book from the backpack "—this?"

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He tries to remember if it's somehow a book he made. He has an eidetic memory so he can check all the making and unmaking he did earlier. 

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It is not.

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Nothing happens.

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"This book was not made by Epic," he explains for the benefit of the video log after it's clear nothing is about to happen. "However, should I ask him to make me a brand new copy of the same book in this book's place..." He looks at Epic expectantly.

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Teleport make.

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"And if I want him to unmake this new book..."

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Teleport.

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"He can, apparently, only disappear objects he didn't make if his purpose is making something in its place. However, it also appears that his power—or his subconscious—does that by determining whether what he would make would actually need to intersect what actually exists..."

And he grabs a few things and suggests a few tests for this hypothesis.

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He produces results consistent with this hypothesis!

 

It occurs to him that if someone tries checking whether he can tell which of two identical things he made by trying to vanish them, the ruse will fall apart. He starts making things with little ultraviolet tags, just in case.

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That's smart of him because this is exactly the next thing Paulo thinks to test, in increasingly elaborate setups.

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Yep he can distinguish things he made! Must be his power!

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Frustrating, but interesting nonetheless. He will collect various samples of things Epic made—later—for testing.

And it's getting kinda late. Does he want to maybe continue this tomorrow?

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"Yeah, probably should."

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"After breakfast sound good to you?"

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Bounce bounce. "Sure!"

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