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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
Ma'ar nods. "....Anyway you could teach me Mindspeech protocol. If you still want to."
anticipating_night
Is that, like, a prolonged dismissal, or just a desire to get back on topic - eh, same response either way. "Sure, so if you're not right in a room with somebody and you don't know if they might be busy or asleep what you do is -" She has it all neatly written up but reads it to him with Mindspeech translation for Efficiency.
small-and-alone
Ma'ar listens intently, and asks a few clarifying questions, and then: "...Can I try it? I - might do it wrong..."
anticipating_night
"I'll get out of your way, I guess, and you can do that if you want more tutoring or anything."
small-and-alone
Ma’ar nods. (He’s not sure that he wants her to go, but he’s also not thinking of anything else to ask her about, and probably she would prefer to go see her other friends, who aren’t constantly getting in trouble.)
anticipating_night
Not everybody has to want to hang out with her, she guesses! Sucks to be them! Off she goes, shutting the door behind her.
small-and-alone
Ma’ar sits on his bed, looking at the math problems from before, and wishes that anything made sense. And that he knew how to put proper wards on his door. It helps, having a room with no one else and a door that locks, but even then he doesn’t really feel safe.
anticipating_night
Now that Ma'ar is armed with the ability to contact her she does not seek him out. She hangs out with Skan and attends her normal Mindhealing classes and does preliminary reading on magecraft and looks at things with mage-Sight.
small-and-alone
Ma’ar does reach out to her two days later, the day before their first mage-class together. Tap tap on her shields. :Azabel?:
small-and-alone
:- Can I come eat at your house again. I...don’t want to go to the dining hall: He has, in fact, been avoiding it, it’s tempting to never leave his room, but skipping meals is starting to affect his magic reserves and they have classes soon.
anticipating_night
:Sure, you can come over for dinner... what's wrong with the dining hall?:
small-and-alone
:People there - aren’t friendly. Yesterday someone spilled their milk all over my food and pretended it was an accident so they didn’t get in trouble:
small-and-alone
Long pause. :....I - might’ve read his mind. For a second. It scared me:
small-and-alone
:I didn’t see it was milk until after! I thought - I don’t know - I felt someone move suddenly behind me and I - panicked and thought he was attacking me, or something:
anticipating_night
:Have you tried asking the hertasi if they'd ferry plates to your room for a while?:
anticipating_night
:I don't think they'd keep doing it forever but if people are picking on you because you're new, or something, I bet they would, same as if you were sick:
