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the gods of velgarth are NOT prepared for demon cam
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Jisa is so excited! Today is the BEST day! Her Uncle Van is home! He was fighting enemies on the Border, which is very exciting and cool, but it's even better to have him here where he can play with her. 

Yesterday he promised to go riding with her today, but then this morning he said he was too tired and could they maybe have tea in his room instead. And then he fell asleep. This is fine, though, because it means Jisa can SURPRISE him with the fact that she's a BIG GIRL now and knows how to read and write and lots of other things. 

She has some chalk and she's been drawing wards on his floor. She knows some designs, now, from bothering Sandra in her workshop when she's bored and Mama is too busy to talk to her, and she can pretend to be a real mage doing real magic. Uncle Van says she isn't going to be a mage even though she has potential, which Jisa thinks is deeply unfair, and she sort of hopes that if she just practices very hard then he'll be wrong and she will be a mage after all. Mindspeech is neat and apparently she's going to be a Mindhealer too, which is apparently rare and important although she doesn't really know what a Mindhealer does. But being a mage is the MOST cool. 

She sits on her Uncle Van's floor and draws big circles and little circles and decorates them and sings to herself under her breath. 

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"So I should go with you?" he asks Tran. "- you can also just, like, tell me what maps you have in mind and I can make copies."

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"They don't really, um, have titles or anything. I guess if you can work off 'the map that's pinned to the wall of my office'...?" 

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Map! - in a little stick of metal that he pokes into his computer and then displays. "This one?"

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Tran peers closer. "Yes, but - whoa. How did you do that? Mine is on canvas." 

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"I can format-convert things!"

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"Wow! That's - so useful - could you do something like, copy a stone building into a scale model made of wood -" 

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"Or the reverse! That'd be pretty useful too." Savil stands as well, taking Vanyel's elbow. "Come on, ke'chara - have you eaten, you should get some supper..." 

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Vanyel rolls his eyes in a very 'I am being involuntarily mothered' sort of way, but goes along with it. 

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"I can do materials replacements too but it's not really the same thing as a format conversion - format conversion makes more sense as a concept if you're used to computers, inconveniently."

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Vanyel half-turns, suddenly curious. "What are 'computers'?" 

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"Machines that store and manipulate information. They're great."

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"Oh! Like...paper and books except moreso?" 

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"Much moreso! Fits orders of magnitude more in much smaller spaces, you can look for specific things you want to find much more easily with much less library science, and you can do all sorts of other cool things that books can't even sort of manage."

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"That's amazing!" 

...Leareth would want to know everything about it right now. 

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"Do you need more maps or is that one enough?" 

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"Maps of more of the world would be good if you have them."

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"Of the entire world? Er, no, we don't. I can probably dig up something in the archives that covers most of the continent?" 

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Leareth would probably have a map of the entire world. 

Vanyel doesn't say this. He turns to follow Savil out. 

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"I will settle for most of the continent for the time being."

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"Want to come look at the Palace archives with me, then? You might see other things you want to, er, format convert and put on your computer." 

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"Good luck! Tran, let me know if he needs anything else." Randi slips out. 

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Shavri hovers, looking at Cam. 

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"...are you joining us?" Cam asks Shavri, making to follow Tran.

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"...Sure." She lowers her voice. "I, um, wanted to ask you about something. Can wait till we're there." 

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"All right." His tail swishes as they walk through the corridors of the palace. He makes a to-do list on his computer as they go.

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