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A screaming teenager ends up in Galatea
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The metamancer is staring at a wall.

It is not a blank or boring wall in any way. It might actually be the most interesting wall for miles around. There is a complex and slightly spiral-y carving on this wall, with words written around in a long-extinct dialect of a language that has, as far as anyone knows, never been spoken here. And yet, here it is.

This wall is not, in fact, underground, surprisingly. These ruins are in open air, with nothing much visible in any direction other than grass. Lots of that, here, grass. But no people, no other buildings, no forests, no river, no natural resources, and most importantly, absolutely no historical record that there should be anything here. The metamancer found this place by sheer luck, and returned to it after stocking up on enough magic.

The metamancer continues to stare at the wall.

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"I dunno! What problems are there?"

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"Stupid laws, succession or otherwise petty wars, hunger, misery, preventable diseases, religious persecution, other forms of social oppression..."

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"Those are not very small."

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"I'm not good at small problems! What kinds of problems are small?"

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"Like... maybe a problem that's only the size of one town? Instead of the whole world?"

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"Hmm... well there are towns with petty lords? There's theft and murder, there are localised distribution problems..."

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"Those seem maybe small enough!"

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"Crop diseases, pests, bickering neighbours?"

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"Reasonably small!"

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"I'm not sure how we'll use those to help with the large-scale ones, though."

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"They're problem-solving practice!"

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"Of course." Snuggle. "We might need to get out of bed to start solving problems, though."

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"First problem: How to get out of bed even though we're so cozy."

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"Yes, and even though I want to do other things with you in bed."

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Giggle.

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"It is an awfully convenient place to do a large number of things!"

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"Yes. But not a convenient place to save the world."

...snuggle.

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"You seem to be about as unmoved by this as I am."

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Snuggle. Snuggle.

 

"Okay, let's get up and eat breakfast and find something to solve," she says, sitting up.

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"Yes, do let's," she says, grinning and sitting up, too.

Clothes? Clothes!

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Clothes! Food!

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Clothes and food!

"Should we look around for Problems to Solve in this town?"

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"Let's!"

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"What kinds of problems is Light magic best at solving?"

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"Well, the only Light magic I know I can do is lightshaping and healing..."

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