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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.
Yes.
He now owes her slightly.
She makes an assortment of objects, one by one, so he can see the debt for each one before he zeroes it. Clothes, shoes, knife, metal tools, jewelry, ring of protection +5 as an apology, assortment of magic armor also as an apology. She can't actually think of anything to protect against mind reading.
She casts heal.
"We brought someone here. We weren't told ahead of time that she read minds. If you hand me an item I can take it to her and set you even before I send her away."
"I would do it anyway," she says, and pops her back to where she came from.
She flies over to Mathrael and the others.
"Why didn't you tell me you had a mindreader?"
Mathrael looks pretty completely unrepentant. "We were kidnapped from Earth space about six days ago. We were brought here without notice a few hours ago. I appreciate what you've done, but I don't know you, and I don't like flying blind."
"Well, we're not going to bring more mindreaders here. If you tell me to bring someone and they turn out to be a mindreader I'm going to have to - at minimum I'll send all but one of you home and postpone working on saving your people until I can do it without dealing with this."
Sigh.
D'you think Matt would be okay with being called in to consult on - I dunno, how to stop psychologically torturing Rana? I'd ask him first but I don't want to leave all of these people alone for that long -
She flies off a ways away from everyone else and pulls Matt to the demiplane.
"I need advice again."
"So I brought the person who can make anyone do anything she wants, and she's fine, as far as we can tell she isn't doing it or causing any problems, but she says there are like a trillion humans enslaved by aliens who need to be evacuated, and so I was grabbing her crew so I could talk to them about the evacuation process, and then one of them was an obligate mindreader and she appeared and got immediately indebted to Connor and more importantly to Rana, who I think freaked out and deafened himself, and also told Cecelia to leave and never come back, apparently, and I have fixed the actual debt but I have not fixed the fact that we keep, like, psychologically torturing Rana, after he gave up all ties with his previous court to live with Cecelia, and this is really upsetting and I don't know precisely what to do about it."
"Ugh. Can you tell me what the least terrible thing to do from here is."
"...our world? I could switch our world back to fairy time and set them down in the fairy circle. I don't know whether they would be fast or not if they left it. He's a fairy, so probably they would?"
"I guess I have no idea. Or whether he wants to be dropped off with her. Last I saw her she was crying again."
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