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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.
"I don't think so. They're usually metal, but it sounds nice to have one you made for me."
"Besides the people? I don't think so. Flowers are nice to have. I think there are other parts of the ceremony, if I can remember them. I think when the groom puts the ring on the bride's finger he says something like... With this Ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow. Or maybe 'with my body I thee honor', I don't remember. Sounds less odd that way."
"Eee.
"I suppose - normally one makes the promises with one's name attached. I'm not actually sure whether that's required or not - humans aren't careful about their names like fairies are - "
"I think we should think about whether it'll make you feel safer for us to be true name entangled, and go off that, instead of going off - what humans do - because it's a really important decision - if we're true named entangled anything you do will hit me exactly as hard as it hits you, right, it means we really really cannot ever leave each other."
Snuggle. "You've never ever hurt me. I'm not scared. I just - want you to know what it is -"
Snuggle. "Yeah. I think I understand. And - I don't, in fact, ever want to leave you, I know it's - it probably sounds like if fairy won't hurt humans for breaking a marriage vow then they're not very real commitments, and it's true that very few people keep them perfectly, but - outright leaving is not really an option, where I come from, I'm not imagining that there are circumstances under which I would be all right abandoning you."
"And it's really important to me that you don't wonder at all if I might leave you again. So - then we should do it, probably."
Nodnod.
"Tell me at the wedding? That way - it'll be a commitment the way your people make them and the way my people make them, at the same time. Which seems - better, somehow."
"All right."
And she thinks for a moment and then tells him the story of Adam and Eve, at the very beginning of the world, and how Adam was alone, and without a partner, and so God created Eve, from his own flesh, to be his wife. And when they were cast out of the garden of eden, and became mortal as punishment for bringing evil into the garden, they left together, and did not abandon one another. Eve was obedient to Adam, and Adam worked very hard to grow food for both of them, even though his time in the garden had not prepared him for the difficulties of farming. And they had children, and lived together for nearly a thousand season cycles, and were the ancestors of all mankind.
"I guess if I'm fast most of the time we'd get to decide whether I have any more. I might want more. Do you?"
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