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cam meets some fastfairies and the thread authors take no position on the presence of an adorable romance arc
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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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Cam makes an anatomical diagram as best he can without being able to move it around. He supervises the baby for a while to see if it will wake up before Econ Faery does.

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It does not.

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"How's the baby."

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"Doesn't look like a human baby or fetus, quite. I might make a mindless one to have a closer look at later."

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"That's such a convenient ability. Did you want to stay and watch it more?"

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"Nah, I have no way to know when it'll wake up."

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"All right. Did you get any guesses about what you were curious about?"

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"Baby faeries are almost certainly not just running on magic to survive delivery at three months. I did watch the baby long enough to see it was breathing, so it's got lungs. I want to find out more about how things behave at various intermediate speeds but that's more of a separate question."

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"Yeah, that's interesting but it's mildly annoying to learn so I've never done it. There's not a lot of reason to be anything other than slow or fast."

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"Well, I mostly want to avoid being slow, since somebody might spot me, but probably if I were only two hundred times faster than a human I could avoid that with just a little effort and conduct research while I was there. I expect to get around to that in the next million years."

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