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"Yup. I had a crown made of sticks."

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"My sister only ever wanted to play soldiers, she hated the entire concept of princesses. Anyway. Congratulations, Dara." He offers her a hug. 

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Hug! Dara is so happy! 

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Aww. 

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"Someone may decide to make a fuss about you not having a Companion," Belrun warns. "Assuming of course that we can't hit Rolan over the head with the concept of the Star-Eyed endangering Valdemar hard enough to jailbreak him, though it seemed like that was maybe almost happening when everybody had the flu."

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Dara winces. "I - don't know - gods, that would be so awkward. I was really incredibly mad at him for a while." 

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"Yeah, I don't blame you at all. He's going to be sort of unavoidably around, whether or not anything, uh, weird happens."

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"Is he actually being more helpful now? Van said so but..." She trails off. 

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"My opinion is that he is still extremely frustrating, but he is also trying quite hard." 

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"Yeah, he talked to the Shadowgod when he got fed up about the annoying coincidences around the plague, and then brought me and Leareth and Amshalan all into the blue place to look at what he got out of Them and then repeated stuff we thought was important at the time and then forgot, which turned out to be really, really helpful."

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"Wow, um, that's really good for him." She frowns. "And - you think he might come and want me back, if he does - manage to jailbreak himself?" 

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"I do not have specific indications in that direction and reasoning about what gods want is weird but - it seems like insofar as the Shadowgod could probably see that it would occur to me to ask you, and the Shadowgod is the god the Companions primarily answer to, They might have a solution to the resulting inelegance? I can't remotely promise it's a good solution because I'm pretty sure They also did our lifebond and wedged me into my situation with Amshalan, and I encourage you to tell Rolan to go fuck himself if you want to, but if you don't..."

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"I'll, um, think about it." 

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"Yeah. I am excited to have you aboard in whatever capacity without Rolan's involvement, it's just sort of a dangling thread, you know?"

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"That makes sense." 

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"Good."

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Dara shuffles her feet. "So, is there anything I can do to help with what you're working on now?" 

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"You don't have the Gifts we're leaning on but if you want to feed microbes gross sludge you can do that!"

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"Oooh! What sort of gross sludge do they eat?" 

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"We're trying different kinds to see what works best!"

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"Would you like a tour?" 

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Dara would love a tour! 

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Then she can see lots of places where microbes are even though she cannot see the microbes.

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Vanyel points out that Dara is a Mindspeaker; Belrun can't do concert-Sight with her, but Vanyel himself is nearly to the point that he can see the microbes, and he can definitely see the big clusters of them, so he's happy to show her. 

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Cooooool!!!

"And you really get magic by killing them?" 

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