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They observe some humans summoning a magical spirit one day. 

It's hard to tell all the details when you have to watch in shifts over the course of several weeks and when you can't hear anything they're saying, but the overall picture seems clear. First, their barn burned down. Then, they stood outside watching it sadly for a while. Then a woman went away into the forest, and wrote some things on the ground, lots and lots of detailed human words. Then a magical spirit appeared. Then the magical spirit walked back with her and replaced the barn and filled up the new barn with food. Then she had sex with the magical spirit. Then the magical spirit disappeared.

 

It makes sense, in the way human things often don't make sense. It seems like the kind of thing you could perhaps try yourself.

 

They carefully copy the human words onto the ground in a fairy circle. They carefully draw a circle in the dirt around the words.

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The human seems to clearly think that these decisions are supposed to be made by more important people. "I guess I'll stay."

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"Cool. Please let me know if you need anything or if faeries do faery bullshit to you."

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"I can set you up with adjoining rooms. If you don't prefer to stay out here, which I guess you might since you can't move."

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"I can't move! It's exc- it's annoying! I can probably make myself a wheelchair but somebody's gonna have to plop me in it and wheel me around. It may make sense to track down my summoner and convince them in some way to assign me a task that includes moving around."

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"I certainly intend to find the people who sent you here to me."

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"That sounded really ominous!"

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"I mean, yes? They expected you to try to attack us, which could have killed everyone here."

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"I'd like to register my disapproval for starting wars in general, and also more particularly, if you kill my summoner, I will disappear home, where I will probably resume my sarcastic ways even if I try for a while not to do that."

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"I don't start wars. - and that's good to know. Thank you."

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"Okay, I also register my disapproval of construing wars to have been started when you could choose not to do that and not have a war instead."

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"Among humans when someone tries to murder a lot of people what do they do with the person who tried that?"

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"Where I'm from they typically lock the human up. As an individual. I think that your whole - shtick - makes it really hard to treat people as individuals, which I expect to mean that responding that way even to murder attempts results in outright war."

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"Not responding to murder attempts results in more murder attempts, and eventually one of them will succeed."

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"Is there some reason why someone may have attempted to murder you?"

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"I have guesses but none seem likely. We don't have any declared enemies."

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"This wasn't a competent murder attempt. They didn't take any steps to stop us from spilling the beans about the intermediate court, they didn't assess my actual inclination to attack people with anything resembling due diligence..."

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"Yes, I agree with that assessment. A panicked spur-of-the-moment murder attempt which still could've killed us all."

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"Which was prompted by finding themselves in possession of a me they didn't know how to handle and not by a premeditated desire to get you dead."

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"They chose me. They must have expected I wouldn't retaliate. That's not a reputation I can afford to have, much less afford to reinforce."

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"And your magical debt system doesn't let you go 'ah, one murder attempt, that will be five thousand hamburgers please'?"

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"I don't want to be entangled with people that stupid for one second longer than I need to and I doubt they have the resources on hand to pay me off. There'd still be reputation concerns but if they can actually afford it - I'd consider it."

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"Can I pay for them if they can handle the appropriate reassurances on how likely they are to repeat the attempt?"

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"If you want them in your debt, I guess."

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"- god but this is stupid. Can I then assign arbitrary value to something stupid so they can get out of that after the ten seconds it will take for me to stop enjoying the role reversal."

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"Not really, no. I'm confused about why you object to us settling this among ourselves."

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