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Demon gone.

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The computer has a printer peripheral.

So convenient.

She gets cleaned up and fed, she packs stuff so she can carry it along, she prints stuff.

The letters flare into lines of fire and vanish, leaving clean paper, and she disappears.

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And now she's standing outside another city, one where her wings are dramatically more unusual.

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Yeah, she's been really lucky on that front so far, but wings do not directly impair her ability to pretend she knows exactly where she's going.

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Then she won't be stopped, though a couple people do quietly ask at the palace, bouncing the image - who's that -

 

But there are a lot of Vanda Nossëo protectorates and members and allies, and the only person who keeps them all straight is in a meeting.

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Well, they're not asking her.

Are there signs on the magic items? Those look promisingly like signs on the magic items.

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Yep! Weird signs. This one says 'birth control - humanoids - current production 14000/day - next distribution in #240' - and the name of a project manager.

This one says 'vision - species w/binocular vision - current production 500/day - for sale in Edda' - and the name of a project manager. 

Grace.

Temperature.

Underwater breathing.

Birth control (mammalian nonhumanoids). 

FTL communication (prototype; in-universe only). 

Eidetic memory.

Retroactive eidetic memory.

Working memory.

Birth control (reptilian nonhumanoids). 

Immortality. ( - humanoids - current production 12000/day - next distribution in #116)

Performance.

Osanwë (for non-elves; prototype; talk to project manager).

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She takes an immortality when nobody's looking. Tries a retroactive eidetic memory. Keeps it even though it doesn't solve her specific use case.

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"Excuse me," someone says politely. "Welcome to Vanda Nossëo, can I help you?"

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"I'm fine, thanks!"

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"This building isn't actually for tourists, why don't you come to the palace and we can get you situated?"

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...she might be able to deflect this person but she probably can't deflect this person and make off with this box of immortality.

She grabs the box of immortality and disappears.

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- crystal ball network - Teleporter, unknown species, just left - someone get Loki or Joy-

 

- missing inventory -

 

- all the immortality necklaces, doing inventory on the rest -

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That took two tries and she isn't sure why, the first try didn't even burn the words, but now she is back in her little camp in Space where she summoned the demon with a box of immortality. She starts the printer going again.

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All the immortality and one retroactive eidetic memory necklace is missing. Species isn't familiar, teleport is at least extraplanetary.

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Reading the words as fast as she can -

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There had better be an actual problem or Loki's re-adjusting the interruption threshold for mid-coitus from "high" to "have to confirm with Swift or somebody like that that it's really that important".

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Looks like someone has an interdimensional teleport and wasn't given one and showed up in Vanda Nossëo and stole a bunch of stuff, is that important enough?

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Yeah, that counts.

She didn't get out of range; she's in Space; and now she is back on Vanda Nossëo.

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Shit.

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(They complete the inventory and verify it's only the retroactive eidetic memory and the whole set of immortalities.)

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Loki could attempt to interrogate this random thief herself but it's not her comparative advantage; her comparative advantage is "while she is paying personal attention she's not going anywhere". Swift available? (Medium-urgent; this is probably more interesting than whatever he's doing but it's no longer more urgent.)

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His interrupt threshold's set higher than that but the meeting's scheduled to break up for lunch in half an hour or so.

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"You want to tell me why you stole a box of immortality necklaces?"

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"They were labeled 'immortality'."

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