Mortal and Promise in fairyland
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"I'm not doing magic to your ears," she says. "I'm just talking and you understand me. The phone transmits sound, so you can hear me talking through it, and you can understand me."

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"...that's. That's pretty much magic. It's not the same magic as sorcery or the ordering business, but being automatically understood by whoever hears you is not a thing the regular laws of physics really allow."

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"I didn't say it wasn't magic, I said I'm not doing anything to your ears."

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"Well, what are you doing the magic to, then? Where is the magic?"

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"I don't know. I just talk. It works in writing too, though, even if all there is is paper and ink, you'd be able to read what I wrote."

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"Argh," he says eloquently.

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Shrug.

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"Okay, I'll need to run your voice through software and hire someone who knows more about this in case the software can't do it automatically. And it might be best to record Yellow, as well, to see if your plain speeches are similar and what can be derived from that."

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"Sure. Before or after I go plant a new tree?"

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"I'll record it now with my phone, and run it through stuff while you're doing that and I'm setting the mortal side of things up."

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"Okay. Anything else that should be handled before I go?"

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"Hmmm, nothing springs to mind."

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"Okay. So I need a phone, and then Yellow and I will go take a cutting of my tree and assuming we don't get caught doing that I'll find a new place to put it and grow it until we can all fit inside and gate from the interior of the tree to the same place the gate that got us here is."

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"Yeah. Might be ideal for you to come back here and tell me once you got the cutting so I know you're alright?"

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"My tree's not very near the place. I could send you Yellow then, maybe."

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"You could make another gate here? By the way, how long do you expect to take to get there?"

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"I can get to the tree in a few days - are you expecting to need to physically transport any mortals to Thorn's court? If you don't I want to put it well away from there, within day trip distance but not so close he could notice easily."

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"I don't expect to physically transport any mortals to Thorn's court, but we'll need to transport trap materials. And, why day trip distance?"

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"Someone may notice I've moved in, he might hear about it. Less likely to happen in the relevant time frame the farther away I am. Are the materials going to be too heavy to fly with?"

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"No, not that heavy, but I mean, why not like a week trip distance? Or half a month?"

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"So I don't have to sleep on the way, delivering things, and spend time asleep, outside my tree, without a gate ready, near the court."

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"...I'm confused about the logistics and I think we're miscommunicating. What I'm picturing here is we'll make a gate somewhere near Thorn's court to a safe place here, which will be how we'll transport our gear, and then there'll be another gate very far away from Thorn's court, in your new tree, that opens to a different safe place here, one that'll be our proper HQ, and a third gate from your new tree or somewhere around it to the first safe place so we can go there if we need to."

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"Oh, I see. Yeah, that works. Then I can put my tree really far away."

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"Yup, really far away from Thorn is the best idea. And the gate near Thorn's court doesn't need to be made now, either, we already have the one we came through that's a few hours from him and we can use that once stuff on my end's done."

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"A few hours flying. It'd take you longer to hike it."

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