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He makes it. What do the words look like?

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Well, to him they rather resemble tengwar.

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"Can you copy this page?"

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"Yeah, why?"

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"I'm curious if a copy you make looks the same to you as a copy I make and which if any have the 'author's meaning is stored in addition to content' thing -"

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"I assume we'll have different handwriting."

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"Looks like it's in the same language, I mean. I'm going to take a picture for the peal and I wonder what it'll look like to them, too -"

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"I'll copy it over if that's useful."

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"Can you try copying the letters or do you have to copy by word -"

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"...I'm not sure I understand what letters are -"

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"...you said names don't do this thing?"

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"Don't do what thing?"

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"The thing where you're unable to parse the actual shape on the page and can only see the meaning!"

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"I can tell what the shapes on the page are if I try, it's just, why would I do that if I want to read it."

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"I'm curious what happens if you try copying the shapes on the page."

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"Okay..."

So she carefully copies out all the lines, and they have a carefully identical page of text.

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And he takes pictures. Does the text look the same in the pictures -

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Yup.

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He writes a peal a description of the weird translation thing and instructions on how to conjure for it and check it out.

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"...can they get your letter somehow?"

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"Yeah. I'm kind of only mostly a demon so I can't get theirs but they can get mine, I've been sending updates. If things went horribly and I got caught I bet they'd wish up a way to find us and be here really soon but since it's not really an emergency they might take a bit."

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"I can try gates in case they can go all the way to where you need to be."

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"You can try. I bet gates obey adjacency, everything does. They're still gonna be a really big deal, though."

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"Are we moving, right now? Gates hold still, you're not supposed to put them on floating islands that travel..."

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"We're probably technically falling in the dimension your world considers down. I could add rockets, cancel that out - or we could go back to the surface -"

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