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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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They are! Not that there's a lot. All of their worldly positions fit in a single canvas sack. Molly looks so excited and even Avri is occasionally peeking at Ildan. 

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"I hear you two like the garden. Will you show me?"

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Molly considers this for a little while. 

"- If you want to," she says finally. "I don't know if you'll think it's very good." 

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"But I've never seen a garden on this whole planet before," he says. "So it'll be interesting, even if it's not all blooming right now. - Is Avri heavy for you? I don't know if she'd like me to carry her, but I can make her a little lighter for you."

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"You can do that? Wow!" Molly looks very hopeful, but does not actually want to admit, out loud, that Avri is 'too heavy' for her. 

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"Yeah, just like this -" He lifts Avri up just a little, so she weighs about a quarter as much for Molly.

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Molly grins shyly at him. "Thank you! It's this way." She starts walking. 

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Cam catches up to them while they're in the garden, landing nearby. "Ildan, do you have specs or something I should copy for a Little Fairyland?"

"Oh, good question, uh - how about Velana Village? Should have enough space to start out."

"That has stairs and stuff for the kids?"

"It's all single story. With attics but I think they have ladders."

"Even better! I will find someplace to put that."

Cam goes looking for somebody to inquire after this prospect.

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He can find a random Herald pretty easily! She doesn't know the answer to his question, though. "I think you should probably ask Tantr– er, ask Jaysen? Er, I can Mindspeak him if you want." 

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"Sure, that works for me."

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Her eyes go out of focus. She stands there silently for about twenty seconds. 

"...How much space do you need, exactly? And are you going to want room to expand it later? You can probably use one of the fallow fields over by the river, Jaysen thinks." 

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Cam looks it up. "I'm going to be replicating a village of about a square mile, though I can rearrange its individual components to fit an irregular space, and some room to expand would be good but I can always make more space somewhere else."

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"- Oh, quite a lot of space. The field Jaysen is talking about is only half a mile wide, I think, but we should be able to get a two-mile strip for you, and we can take over more land after the harvest." 

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"Cool! Usually fairies live in very tall buildings but that's because they can all fly, and the ones here are going to be raising children. I also don't have to build it all at once."

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"Right. Er, want me to walk you over and show you where the field is? Or I could go get a map of Haven and point it out?" 

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Cam displays a map on his computer.

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The Herald points out the field for him! It's about a mile and a half away - outside the Palace inner walls, but still within the city of Haven proper, which is a lot bigger. 

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"Looks good! Anything I should know about the place?"

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"Er, there'll be neighbours. It's near the - hmm, let me see - it's near one of the shop districts. The houses nearby are mostly going to be merchant and shopkeeper families - not poor, not wealthy either. I don't think they should mind you setting up there, especially not if you buy or barter things at their shops." 

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"Sounds good, the fairies will need to buy stuff."

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"I think that's all, then." 

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Cam flies out to install the village as requested.

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And, a while later, Herald Kilchas wanders out to have a curious look at Cam's progress.

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- and riding his Companion, again, this time. 

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"Oh, hello," says Cam, who is filling in some dirt under a house that turned out to be on more rabbit holes than was good for it. "You look, uh, better?"

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