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"Putting a bulb around the light generally leads to moths still smashing themselves on it, even if they remain unburnt."

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"Which isn't an argument with anything to do with practical considerations, but . . ."

 

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"Don't pretend - or think, it makes sense you wouldn't know given that you're from English - it's for our sakes."

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"- okay? I think I follow? Maybe? - English isn't a place, the language developed in a country called England but I'm from one of its emancipated colonies."

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"Oh, I'd thought you'd said . . ."

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"English is the name of the curiously nigh-identical language, not the universe."

 

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" - I see.  Has the universe got a name?"

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"Not really, but the most inhabited bit of it is called Earth."

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"We also call the cylinder that."

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"How inconvenient. Well, the specific country I was born in is called America, do you have one of those?"

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"No, we call those continents Vespuricca."

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"Curiously parallel. Anyway. I'm from America where they speak English. I know lots of other languages but they are not in circulation here."

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"I have a draft of a pamphlet explaining the basics of your world and your presence here; if it looks okay to you now might be a good time to pass it around?"

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"Oh, sure, let's see." Pamphlet?

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Pamphlet!  Actually several pamphlets, ranging from pretty simple and fitting on one glossy accordion-folded page to letting in a little elaboration at more of a booklet size.  One of them has all the information but notes and color-codes what isn't included in the lighter versions, for Cam's proofreading convenience.

In paraphrase, Cam is from a different universe where planets are round and gravity goes towards the middle of them, the stars are the same thing as the sun, and it's as if every single person has their own entire birthday.  (The booklet version has diagrams of the solar system at both condensed and accurate scales, a description of the ways vacuum works differently, and a note about galaxies.)  The humans also work very differently biologically (and the booklet details how).

People don't become stars in this other universe, and they don't merge up in other ways either.  Instead, they turn into one of four types of indestructible being (booklet-description of limboites, fairies, and angels, and their respective realms).  Cam is a demon who is summonable, was summoned here, and can conjure objects out of nothing (booklet-description of the specifics of his limitations, with an arrow from a parenthetical note asking "(This version maybe just for friendlies?)").

This power allows him to create empty bodies for stars to move back into, and a project of mass resurrection is already underway!  Star clouds can be incarnated under these specific conditions.  There's a city under the world called Atriama (picture included) where they're all moving for now.

Booklet-exclusive announcement that some Britannian cats are people.  Booklet-exclusive semi-detailed description of becoming embodied and of the current resurrection prioritization policy.

Near the end there's a brief mention of Felicity herself: her composite birthdays, her 28-ness, her PA-hood, her relative availability for requests and questions compared to Cam.

And to wrap it up there's a toggleable box with a description of how to use mail labels, along with 'letter to Cam' and another parenthetical: "(Do you want to come up with a new one as more of an official channel?)".

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Cam hands around the booklet without the limitations part and with a replacement mail label, let's go with "Attn. Governor of Atriama" for official communiques.

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The assorted starchildren get to reading them!

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"Incidentally, why 'Atriama'?" a Felicity asks at an unobtrusive volume.  "Do you know whether that's the name Nudge thought you might go for, or was there another that you intentionally picked this instead of?"

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"It feels like an obvious go-to? It's my favorite work of art, it's an aerial ballet and Atriama's the title character."

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"Oh, that's sweet."

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The solstices get collectively wigglier the farther they read.  The redhead is the first one done.  "So you had a question about something to do with sleeping?"

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"Oh, yeah, resurrectees seem to feel better after they've gotten some sleep and I realized I don't know if there's a hormone profile I could make the bodies start out with such that they could doze off right away! I know how to do that for my kinda humans but not the locals."

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"I know how sleep works but I think not yet enough about your power to advise very well.  Can you make people as though they've just drunk chamomile tea?"

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"I can put chamomile tea in their stomachs directly, but this trades off their not needing to pee any time soon, so if there's a downstream product I could imitate that would be slightly better."

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"Depends on whether you can make their blood different directly or if you're only working with the digestion."

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