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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 guess? It just -
" - it sounds untenable to be married to someone who owns you."
"I think that - fairy slavery is somewhat different than human slavery. It doesn't mean that I'm - expendable, or unimportant to him. It doesn't mean he doesn't love me. In some ways it means the opposite; if we were trying to keep things even then he couldn't be kind to me without thinking about the debt, couldn't take care of me the way he does. It means I have to trust him, but I don't think it means that we're not - that we have the sort of relationship that is incompatible with marriage."
"He doesn't often give me orders. Only when it's important. And - husbands give their wives orders too, of course."
"I - guess there are circumstances under which that would make sense?"
"Not usually? I mean - they listen to each other? And if one spouse is a crew leader then of course the other person has to listen to them in that capacity? But - I don't think husbands usually, uh, give orders to their wives."
"The Osirians talked about women promising to obey their husbands, too. Maybe it's common, among free Liars? But - that seems kind of - depressing."
"I'm kind of confused about how households work without it. Someone has to make the final decisions, surely?"
"Uh, no. You can talk about things and pick someone who you can come to a consensus with. Orders are mostly for - parents with children or crew leaders with crews or masters with slaves. But not married couples. That's supposed to be one of the places you have that's free of that. That and friendships, I guess. I - guess I kind of hoped that if Liars were free they'd have a lot more relationships that looked like friendships. But - maybe that's actually a slave thing, or something."
"Mostly to talk, I think. She was curious about what marriage was like among other peoples. And she was concerned about the slavery. I think she was a slave, before she came here."
"Not entirely, I don't think. She's pregnant. Looking for someone to act as a father to the child."
"There's one from her world. She says they haven't spoken much. She didn't seem to think he'd want to be a parent."
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