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Sparkles and Terel in Tileworld
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The next few weeks are blissful, with Terel having school and Sadde having Empire Imports and making lots and lots of money. They advance in computer design—they still can't really mass produce, and are mostly building everything they need to build from scratch where it won't be magical, and borrowing a lot from golemcraft where it will—and soon start reaching the limits of what Sadde has actually memorised. An actual prototype is still a long ways off.

Sadde obtains the materials the shadowy people need, and also painlessness amulets for Terel. Even without the Imperial Anaesthetist's aid, they should be covered. Hopefully. 

And then it's the last day of school.

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It's an entire mountain face carved into little statues and big faces. By all available sources, one Fair Folk did it and continues working on it to this day.

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Oooh yes he wants to go visit that!

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They can go visit that, then. It's kind of a long flight by wing-pack. The world pillars are an entire continental region.

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Sadde has no objections but if Terel prefers to take some faster transportation method he's up for it too.

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It wouldn't be 'faster', it'd be 'more comfortable than flying for hours and hours'. And, nah, flying is great.

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It really is. Flying, then!

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Whee! He's adventurous enough to try some stunts more daring than 'gentle banking turn' now.

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Wheee! Sadde is of course always ready to catch him if he needs to be caught.

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The wing pack is very good about safe flight.

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Such a useful wing pack.

Now what will come first: Terel's biological needs like food and sleep or the mountain?

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The mountain! Its aesthetic sense is a bit foreign to both of them, but it is clearly very aesthetic to someone. Lots of fantastic or improbable plants and creatures carved into the rock. Battle scenes. A smattering of landscapes of distant places carved into this landscape.

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Foreign but still very pretty. And a single Fair Folk did this? Anyone knows who or why?

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"Apparently, 'a dragon who doesn't like names' and 'because it was bored'."

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"...I am forever baffled by the sorts of things immortal, incredibly powerful people choose to do with their time."

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"Well to be fair, this dragon is not also a Fate. And dragons' magic mostly revolves around fire."

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"Generation? Manipulation? Survival in? Need for?"

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"Generation of, happier in."

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"Interesting. And it... carved these things with fire?"

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"Well, probably used its claws. Though, look, it's smoothed like glass there... So a combination of both. Huh, look at that snake thing... It's really detailed. Very pretty, in a brutal sort of way."

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"Yeah. I guess I shouldn't judge people for not using their resources in the most altruistic possible way, I myself am not doing that all the time."

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"Yeah, not much point to life if we did that."

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"Oh, some point, but yeah, the problems we're going to solve won't get significantly worse at the scale of days."

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"Yeah, but either way I feel like the vacation before going into invention and tech mode is good."

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"Yeah it definitely is."

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"So let's take a good long look at all the pretty carvings that are a silly use of someone else's time."

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