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Six-artifact-pileup Annie drops on Lucette
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"I can. Would you like to dictate what you remember and then I can add what I remember?"

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"Sure - we'd just come around the bend - I think it didn't come up to full strength instantly, but it was pretty quick -" Her episodic memory is nothing special and she doesn't know what matters here but she does her best.

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Lucette's handwriting is messy in the carriage at this speed but she manages, at least by her standards which are admittedly unreasonably high.

Once Annie is done she adds her own memories to the list.

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At least it doesn't happen again on the way back to the estate.

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Once they are back Lucette sets to copying the notes into a less haphazard record of events, with a timeline and different colors of ink for different varieties of potential trigger.

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It's nice that she has colored ink so that Annie can experience colors at all.

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Annie is welcome to write with the colored ink as well.

"-I do not particularly relish the idea of testing the various potential triggers but if it seems wise to do so it could be arranged."

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"I agree with you, which ones are easiest to test?"

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"Exposure to a large variety of flowers, smelling petunias in an enclosed space, being near crowds of people talking, hearing music, and being jostled would also be easy enough I imagine. As would granting your abilities, assuming you are okay with granting any of them to me now."

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"The granting abilities is probably not it, because there was one fairly smooth arc of pain -" Gesture. "And not three. But if you want to try the blindness-deafness-weird-sense one, I can do that now we know they go together, and -

- well, the healing drawback wasn't noticeable to the patient which means it's a candidate for the pain drawback so maybe that one I'd hold off till you need it or we identify the trigger."

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"Well, the petunias, being jostled, and the music, we can try right away if you're ready to do so. The crowd of people talking and the variety of flowers will have to wait. I also am curious enough to want to try the weird-sense even if it's not relevant to our experiment."

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"Okay." Can she say 'how are you planning to jostle me' non-flirtatiously. Possibly she cannot. "I'm not sure what exactly to do with the petunias."

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"We can place them in a small space with us for a period of time similar to the -" she checks her notes "- 15 minutes it took for your prior reaction to occur. My shoe closet would do, I imagine."

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"Okay."

She will go sit in a shoe closet with petunias for fifteen minutes. It's boring.

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"Well, we have jostling next. I... confess I can't actually think of a dignified way to accomplish this."

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Annie can think of some undignified ways. "Well, probably I'll have reason to get in the carriage again eventually anyway."

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"We can attempt something less dignified unless you object to doing so?"

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Can they really! "Like what?"

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".... I could hold you and shake you up and down? Or uh, go underneath my mattress while you are on top and then I'd kick at the mattress or something of that nature."

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"...the mattress idea seems safer. I'd be worried about my neck if you were shaking me."

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"I can also just arrange a carriage ride for tomorrow if you would prefer."

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"The trouble with that is that we might pass something that's a trigger and get a false positive."

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"I could order a carriage ride around the country, in a short loop perhaps?"

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"That reduces but doesn't really eliminate the false positive risk. I mean, we can still do it, but if we can do fewer total experiments that result in that happening that seems best."

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"Then the mattress plan would seem to be the wisest course of action, at least for now."

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