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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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One of the courts has a baby! The baby is not yet sped up but he can see it if he wants. 

 

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He would like to have a look! Is it safe to touch them while they're still slow or no? May he watch them give the baby dew?

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You can touch slow things but they all feel like stone because of being slow. If he wants to stay that long he can watch them give the baby dew.

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How long is that long? How often do they feed it?

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When it's awake but it's not right now and it's hard to predict when it will be.

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How do you even get dew into a slow baby?

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There's a little mechanism you can set up around its mouth.

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Anyone know when that was invented or what people did before?

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You can basically make do with a dew-soaked cloth.

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That doesn't ever suffocate the kid?

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You shouldn't obstruct their nose, but otherwise no.

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Cool. Do babies ever randomly die or can you pretty much expect that if you have a baby and don't forget about it for a year you'll have a kid?

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They die very rarely and generally only if the court has misfortune.

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Neat. Do they have close calls?

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Honestly it's kind of hard to tell?

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Is it?

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Like sometimes they seem unwell and then recover but maybe they weren't unwell and were just briefly in pain or something?

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Has anyone ever tried having a slow person watch over them?

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Doesn't work very well once they start to speed up but it works until then, yeah. 

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No known way to partially slow an adult?

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When slowing a person down they slow down gradually and you can stop this partway through though that's rarely advisable.

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If you can only do it in that direction it'd make it hard to match the baby for very long.

He looks at the baby.

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It is very small and pink and only vaguely human-shaped.

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Does it match a fetal development stage? (How old is this baby?)

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It does not, quite, match a fetal development stage. This baby was extracted about three weeks of sidereal time ago.

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