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Kanimir has been industriously recording this!

"Do you need me to teleport you again to do that?"

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"No, there are enough unicorns."

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"Alright then."

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Sit. Magic magic magic.

 

Now she has a touch-healing power that fits in neatly alongside her touch-life-extension power, and is much tidier than the first version.

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And Kanimir has many crystals full of magical imprints. "Is there some other attribute in particular you might like to find?"

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"I don't know. What things are there?"

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"Unicorns are fairly universal. Different fairies have different kinds of magic. There are Greater Phoenixes, of no taxonomical connection to Lesser Phoenixes, that may or may not have the ability to regenerate instead of dying. There are birds that can sing any melody as produced by any instrument. There are many more things than just that, but it would take a very long time to simply recite every item of potential interest without some knowledge of your preferences to guide me."

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"I want to see lots of things," she says. "Greater Phoenixes sound like they might be useful..."

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"Hmm. Alright. I think I have a place in mind. Do you want to go now?"

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Nod nod.

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Teleport!

This place is a forest. A very well-populated forest. Describing all of the things there would take a good long while.

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Things!

But what if she wants to look at all the things?

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Well, then she can spend a good long while doing it.

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Then that is what she will do.

What are the things in this forest? Which ones have new and interesting properties?

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Almost all of them have new properties! Which ones are interesting is up to her. This species of bird has feathers that change color in response to temperature, and this flower has nectar that will do positive things to your larynx if you consume it, and that tree has sap that will make a syrup that tastes like anything you want if you put a tiny pinch of the anything in the sap while you're boiling it, and that small fluffy thing (it is so fluffy) has fluff that will keep you very warm if you're cold and pleasantly cool if it's too hot.

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Aww, fluff! She does not want the fluff, but she respects the fluff. It is good fluff.

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If she likes fluff, that fluffy thing over there is magic to be extremely soft. Also those flowers over there have supernaturally vivid colors, and those butterflies over there have translucent, jewel-like wings, and those moths asleep over there have wings that glow (not all the time, that would be evolutionary suicide, but as an action just the same as flapping them) and those songbirds can repeat any sound they hear, and those songbirds will repeat melodies they hear as birdsong, and those birds over there can change their size.

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"There are a lot of magic things here," she says, examining the fluff and the butterflies and the moths and the birds. "Glowing moths! That looks fun."

She attempts to extract the glowableness of the moth wings and attach it to her hair. It takes four tries, because moths are tiny and it's hard to work at that scale, but eventually she manages it. Glow. Un-glow. Glow. Un-glow.

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"Fairyland is extremely magical."

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"I like that about it."

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"It's its best feature."

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"Yes."

Maybe she can combine the moths' optional glowing with something else... the moths are so tiny, though. If she had an entire herd of unicorns here and an entire whatever-you-call-it of moths, and several immortal people, she might be able to put together an optional version of her touch-healing and touch-life-extension. But she does not have a herd of unicorns and several immortal people. Well, what else is there around here that might be neat to have an optional version of? Are there any more creatures with optional properties that are bigger and easier to work with than moths?

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Those snakes over there are optionally invisible! ...They're also quite venomous. Who thought that was a good combination?

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"Why are there invisible venomous snakes," says Riya.

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"...There are what."

Upon closer inspection the snakes are strongly disinclined to bite humanoids...unless someone spells them to bite a specific person. Which they are remarkably susceptible to.

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