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Spell: Following
You can make people first-level clerics of you.
To learn this spell, take the hand of someone eligible to be your cleric. Say, goloptywimple. Give them a valuable gift.
Spell: Resistance
You have some ability to ignore magical effects directed at you.
To learn this spell, cast another spell on yourself. As you do so, say, Jempi. Katsafgha.
Spell: Hold Person
You can cast the spell Hold Person at will.
To learn this spell, touch someone. Say, Enefti. Freb.
Snuggle.
"Think it's your turn to pick a book. If you have any suggestions. Or, I dunno, wanna pick a genre."
" - see, if we were still limiting your entanglements with random artists that would be really hard, because most superhero stories are comic books, but we're not, so we can."
And here's a stack of Batman comics that they can start reading.
He and Mahdi hang out trying to help out the Liars with getting set up to stay here. They show off cantrips. He heals people.
People need a lot of minor healing because everyone is overworked and exhausted and entirely too many people are pregnant. They're very happy for Fazil's help. (And for Asmodia's, because although she's much worse at healing people, she's been hanging out answering people's questions and generally helping people be less terrified.)
Imrainai tells people stories. Sometimes stories she learned from the elves, sometimes stories she heard a long time ago and knows very well already. It gives people something to focus on. It's good to have something to focus on, right now.
Oh that's how the slaves' mysteriously idyllic education system works, it's just that Imrainai in particular is really good at telling stories. This makes more sense.
Well, she's better than most poets. Certainly much better than most poets her age. But she had to learn from someone.
She doesn't take a lot of long breaks, but she takes some, and obviously she has to sleep. When she isn't around other people sometimes tell stories, too. They're not nearly as good as her, but they're all pretty good if you compare them to humans from elsewhere.
They do really like listening to Imrainai when they can, though. Being in a new place surrounded by Liars with alien sensibilities is scary, and they mostly think it's best to call on the most powerful resources they have for combatting this.
"Right, but if someone can fix that. They don't have to age, if no one's worried about shuffling them off into the afterlife."
"I don't know if Abadar can reach me there. And I couldn't ask her to leave her people, or to take them to Osirion."
After a while her people calm down a little. She calms down, too, when she's surrounded by people she knows.
"Thank you for helping," she tells Fazil, at some point. "I think they're less - stressed, than they were."
"I admit that I helped. But - having healers about is really good, especially under the circumstances. And more people who can answer questions about what's happening."
"Of course. As much as you need us. - if I can heal on your planet. I'm not sure what to expect."
"I'm not sure we in particular actually have a planet. But - yeah. I guess we'll have to see."
" - better than I was? Kind of unsure what our next move is. I guess - waiting to hear more from the Elves. Or from Elizabeth."
"I think Elizabeth is securing her parents' permission to marry. I don't know what the Elves are up to."
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