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Nue does remind Lintalai to make sure that her body is staying in line with Arcadia- this might include her mind? Until now, most people had understood souls as being the place where cognition started, so frankly this is new territory for her. Otherwise, though, it's a good start.

Eventually, she says, "I think that's enough for today. You can practice stretching on your own from now on- I want us to make the most of our lessons, and I think it's more important that I help you build a long-term discipline than walk you through each step. Is that alright with you?"

"Yeah, that makes sense! Thank you very much!"

Then Nue will meet up with Intrepid again to discuss her lodging arrangements, and leave Lintalai to her business.

Tyshvian catches up to Lintalai to introduce her to Grilbrek, the wizard who Daernir thinks can most directly assist with transporting people across planes.

Grilbrek is a short, somewhat ill-tempered man who seems quite certain that he can independently invent portals.

"I'm really glad to hear it's a promising possibility! What do you need from me there?"

"Nothing at all! I'd like to be left alone to my own devices, if you please."

Tyshvian adds an apology of her own, having stayed close in case anything upset the man. She ushers Lintalai away rather quickly.

"You should get used to that. Most wizards have personality problems. Your team looks better than average, on that front."

"Well, at least he's low maintenance."

"That's one way of looking at it!"

Tyshvian asks Lintalai what she wants her to be doing- would it be helpful if she sat in on her lessons and took notes while Lintalai is otherwise occupied, or should she be shadowing Daernir to make sure whatever work he's doing with the wizards is useful to her?

"Keeping an eye on the wizards sounds good. Can you also do site search for settlements, find out about good candidates and their pros and cons?"

She'll be happy to. She confirms with Lintalai what the basic parameters for her search are and then she'll leave Lintalai alone to enjoy the rest of the day in peace.

Intrepid informs her that her next lesson will be some time tomorrow, and that she is welcome to schedule it per her needs, since Nue has yet to find anything else to do with herself.

First thing in the morning sounds good to Lintalai. Seems an apropos time for stretching.

Then the next morning, Nue will be in the courtyard for the next lesson. Nue does tell her to engage in some light stretching at the beginning, without any input from her. Then, she advises her to try the same movements standing still. Does this carry the same risk of unbalancing her, or is she less unsteady because the movements are somewhat familiar?

Lintalai still falls over even with familiar movements.

Then they'll just have to pack a lot of alignment into what she can do!

Nue doesn't want to spend much time on repeating what Lintalai has already learned, as long as she's practicing that when they're apart. Instead, today they'll work on posture. How well can Lintalai work on standing very still, having a peaceable smile, and things like that?

"I don't know where your clumsiness comes from or how it works, but if you can align lawful-good using posture and stretching, we shouldn't need to do much else just yet."

Lintalai can stand very still and smile just fine! She can stop breathing if that will help!

Good to know!

Holding her breath might help, so if it isn't risky to do for her, Nue recommends doing it when possible.

"Do you have lungs? It might not be relevant, but I'm curious."

"I think so, but I can hold my breath a really long time without it bothering me. I might be breathing through my skin or something but I'm not sure, that's just a guess because I'm a plant."

"It can help to add consistency and predictability wherever it might help other people. Usually, revealing unusual capabilities of yours is helpful only if the capabilities are helpful, so I wouldn't recommend adding that to your routine, but you could try demonstrating your clumsiness in some consistent way- revealing your limitations predictably is lawful good because it promotes an atmosphere where people's needs can be met and there's no shame in requesting accommodations. Why don't we try adding a rule. Let me know if this sounds alright, and please suggest something else if you prefer it- if someone happens upon you when you're doing your stretches, you stand and perform a stretch that will cause you to lose balance, and explain your condition."

"I feel like it would make more sense to carry a cane."

"It's a more lawful but less good. That's fine, as long as you balance that out elsewhere. Do you think you could come up with a few reasons that might be?"

"Why it would be more lawful but less good? Is it... less good because I'm not going out of my way as much?"

"That's nearly right. If Arcadia already had laws about using canes to signify clumsiness, it would be just lawful. If Arcadia used canes to signify, hmm, shortness, it would be somewhat chaotic. However, in Arcadia, a cane is a signal that you need assistance to walk, so using a cane to signal that is lawful- but it would be more good to provide more information than just that. You can use the cane, but you should consider adding some other signal."

"I guess it doesn't seem obvious to me that it's not wasting people's time to tell them all the details."