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Emily receives a visit from the Notebook
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I wouldn't get bored at all! You can take as many notes in me as you like, even if they're repetitive.
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She's torn. On the one hand, that's ... that's how notebooks are supposed to work. On the other hand, it sounds fake coming from a person.

But.

She really does need to write things out again.

Being — Dragon Fairy Elf Witch

Knowing (skills) — Anything You Can Do

Teaching (skills) — You Can Teach Better

Knowing (people) — Friends in Places

Knowing (situation) — Soundtrack

Having (things) — Pocket Dimension

Healing (people) —

Doing — Custom power kind of like Iron Will

Choosing — Backchannel + Roundabout

Recovering — It Gets Better

Remembering —

Going — Eternal Love ????

Reserved — 7

Now that the topic has been brought to her attention, though, having a way to heal people is obviously pretty useful. And even though it's cheap, it's not as though there's going to be any healing options better than True Love's Kiss.

She flips back to the description, and runs her finger along it.

"And it works in reverse" means that your true love can heal you, right? Not that you can cause curses and injuries by un-kissing them?

It's an inane question, and she knows it's an inane question, but asking it gives her time to think.

About kissing.

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Yes. And many kinds of kisses work for the purpose, like a kiss on the hand or on the cheek.
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... oh. That's what was bothering her.

She just really doesn't want to put her lips on someone else's lips because they're probably smooshy and moist and ...

Emily shudders, and pushes the thought out of her mind. But how did the notebook know?

Right. Well. That seems pretty good, then.

She goes back and pencils that in on her new list under healing.

Hmm. Do you have any powers that are related to remembering? Or, not getting worse at things because you don't practice them much?

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Not exactly. I think Anything You Can Do has some secondary effects that help with that sort of thing.
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She's torn. On the one hand, she has a perfectly good memory. On the other hand, it would be really embarrassing to be told, like, the location of the secret temple that contains the sword of destiny and then forget it and have to go back.

... wait, no. She has a way to have things, so she's not going to run out of notebooks and pencils. She'll just have to make sure to write down anything remotely interesting that happens to her, just in case.

And then another thought strikes: she's being set up for an epistolary novel, isn't she? That probably should have been more obvious when the story started with writing to a talking book.

I don't like epistolary novels.

Uh.

Emily hastily scratches that out and revises it.

I don't like epistolary novels.  What I mean is, it would be nice if there was a power that let me remember things, but I guess it's not strictly essential.

Are there powers that help with getting to places?

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Not directly, no. The Best Friend series of powers can grant you an animal companion who may be a rideable mount, or a vehicle if you take the Transformer power. And some of what you can gain from Anything You Can Do and Dragon Fairy Elf Witch and their related powers can be useful for traveling.

I'm not sure what you mean about epistolary novels, but in general, the way the Spirit's powers work, you won't end up in a story you wouldn't like. (There can be some trouble when there's a conflict between what kind of story you would like to live and what kind you would like to read, though, because both are important.)
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