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They appear to be made of thin skeins of enchantment, layered and layered atop mundane metal.

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Hmm...

The battleaxe sounded like it had the things she wanted most. She gently peels the reflection apart, picking up the layers for 'immense strength and fortitude' and transferring them to herself as carefully as possible. She doesn't care at all about the lying criterion, and the reflected copy of it is shredded to uselessness in short order.

Meanwhile, her real body stands there blankly.

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"Immense Fortitude" comes easily, but then "Immense Strength" starts peeling a little at the edges - what she ends up with is more like "pretty decent strength."

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That's... acceptable.

She pulls at the rest of the axe's reflected magic and manages to get a nearly perfect copy of the missile-deflecting aura effect, wrecking the situational awareness part in the process.

Then she says, "That was useful."

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"...Alright?"

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She stands there for a few moments, trying to figure out how to explain.

Then she says, "...I can... copy magic. Parts of magic. I copied parts of that one," she points at the axe. "Do you have more magic things?"

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"These are most of the ones I can carry with me. Were you looking for anything specific?"

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"I don't know what things there are. But I want to be able to get rid of the shadows." She looks at the other weapons. "Maybe I will copy some things from the others of these too. But it's hard to figure out what being holy is made of exactly. Do you think it would be useful to be holy?"

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"I don't know, to be honest. None of this magic works in ways I truly understand."

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She nods thoughtfully.

Then she says, "I wonder what happens if you take the axe away and then bring it back..."

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Ishmerai picks up the ax again, and vanishes for a moment: then she reappears.

"Did that do anything?"

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"I'm not sure. It might have changed the reflection a little. But it didn't fix all the things I took out."

She looks at the holy sword and tries to figure out how its holiness is implemented and whether it would be a good idea to copy it.

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The holiness is rather complex. It's 'destroy evil in general' and 'speak honestly' and 'strengthen the righteous' and 'destroy demons specifically' and a half-dozen other things, all tied together in intricate knots that reinforce each other. It looks rather likely to shred if she pulls at it.

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"Holiness is complicated," she says after examining it for a little longer. "I probably can't copy it very well."

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"That's unfortunate."

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"Yes."

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Awkward silence.

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"Do you have any more things?"

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"Yes, I do. I have many more things. But not a huge number of them are portable like this."

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"Can I look at them somehow?"

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"I could bring you to them, but it might be somewhat uncomfortable for you."

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"How?"

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"If you were to allow me to embrace you, I could bring you with me when I teleported. I... normally don't prefer this, for a lot of reasons."

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"Why?"

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Her teeth and eyes swim out of the darkness.

"I'm told it's rather intensely disturbing."

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