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Ranara and her little daughter Azabel move to Urtho's Tower when the latter can say six words ("up", "mama", "milk", "no", "now", and "please") and hasn't started to walk yet. Ranara sets up to teach little children to read, ones who don't have evident Gifts yet - Ranara herself has Mindspeech, is all, with about a classroom's worth of range. Azabel sits in on classes, worn on her mother's back or later plopped in a corner with toys or, when she's only four, plopped in a corner with a book, younger than the other kids in the class. When Azabel has in fact sat through her mother's curriculum she is turned somewhat loose, to walk very carefully up and down and around the Tower, exploring.
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small-and-alone
:Are people not friends with other people they work with on a project?:
anticipating_night
:Sort of incidentally? I think I'd say 'friendly acquaintances' by default - if that, people can often work together without even actually being friendly:
small-and-alone
:Huh. I guess that's maybe another way I'm weird? It's always seemed like the most important sort of relationship, to me:
anticipating_night
:It's... important and it's a relationship but I'm not sure it's important qua relationship, if that makes sense:
small-and-alone
He frowns, intently. :It's...starting to make sense, a bit. I guess I do want - more than just that, with you. Even if a lot of why I want to be your friend is that you're great and I want you as an ally:
anticipating_night
:Alliances can be really impersonal, yeah. So impersonal that you can describe things that are not people as having alliances, like countries:
small-and-alone
:...Hmm. I guess that's true. I hadn't thought of it from that angle before:
anticipating_night
:I guess my model has the weakness that sometimes one also hears countries described as friends but I think that's mostly just a figure of speech:
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