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"Yes, that seems wise, at least as a starting point." 

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"I'm going to finesse getting you a legal Calador identity so you'll be able to own property here; do you have in mind a way to spell your name, any other facts that would go with that..."

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She confers briefly with McElroy and produces a spelling of her name; she gives her age: "Twenty-eight and a bit years, but I don't know if our years and yours are the same length." 

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"They might not be, though I assume you needn't look your age..."

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"I look only slightly younger than I am. I was--basically an adult but not very good at it yet at sixteen?" 

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"If the aging rates are the same which we also don't know and have no reason to expect, that'd suggest our years are longer by a factor of four."

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"Well, when I've been here a few days I can guess how much if at all my sleep cycle is off by and once I have an idea of the comparative lengths of our days I can see how many there are in a year." 

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"Anyway, I'll put down that you're seven."

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"That sounds a little weird to my ears but is probably about right, developmentally speaking." 

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"Anything else?"

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"My instinct is to give you my demographic information but but I don't fit into any of yours and you wouldn't have context for any of mine." 

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"All right. I'm going to pass you off as a cousin of mine, for now."

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"Do I need to memorize any genealogical information for that?" 

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"It shouldn't come up."

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"Is staying with Kamuor for the time being workable for you? I could find other accommodations but it would increase the risk of someone noticing you who hasn't already."

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"I'm fine with it if Kamuor is." 

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Kamuor nods. Delin smiles. "Next steps, it seems to me," says Delin, "are that I find you a house - I assume you can customize the house however you like but might have preferences about the location?"

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"Accurate, although I confess I don't know enough about the local--everything--to have particularly fine-grained location preferences." 

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"Near transit, near particular businesses or types of neighborhoods... I don't have quite the sphere I'd need to have a lot of choices on the weather..."

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"Weather doesn't bother me too much, near transit is good, near businesses is good if they're businesses I can't trivially replace with creating objects inside the house or altering my own appearance, and I would normally have opinions about types of neighborhoods but a lot of that had to do with the cultural context of how I fit in to society that doesn't apply here." 

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"All right. Near the subway and predominantly yellow offices in case you need accountants or additional translators or what have you. House, legal identity, and filtering my network for discreet people to learn more about you and your powers and how they can be best used. Sound good?"

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"Sounds excellent." 

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"All right. I'll have that sorted in the next few days. Kamuor can take you home."

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"Alright," she says, and nods to Kamuor. 

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