Ezodai and Ti'arainye Likhar in room seven
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"...Well, no, but if they're new, then previously you and they were in different places, right?"

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"...nnnno? They're new because previously they weren't. If they'd just been across the mountains or high in the sky, they'd have been new to me, but not new generally."

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"...So...someone banged a spider and something interesting happened???"

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She claps both hands over her mouth and giggles behind them, ducking her head at first and then shaking it. "No, no! They came from the turning of the Age, like all the rest of us! That's how new peoples start! Is't not so for you? How did all your kinds of folk begin?"

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"Well...we have legends, but different legends say different things. I've heard legends that say there used to be a second moon but the first dragons hatched out of it, and legends that say a goddess braided the first finnfolk out of kelp, and legends that say that the first member of each species was created from the divided remains of the stillborn child of the earth and the sea, and legends that say say the first harpy was a misshapen dragon, but I don't know any of them to be true."

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"The world's had many Ages." She counts on her fingers. "First was the Moon's time, when all the world was water, and the mer swam in the dark." Another finger. "Second were the Planets, and the earth, and the serpentines to burrow in it." Another. "Third were the Stars, and the air, and the fey to breathe it." Another. "Fourth, the Sun, and fire, and the humans to light it." And the thumb. "Fifth, the Web, and magic, and the spiderfolk to weave it." She wiggles all her fingers, then closes them. "There was to be a sixth Age, but the gods warred, and the turning stopped. Or so I'm told. There haven't been any more, anyway."

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"...So...the spiderfolk came from magic suddenly existing? Or, your gods made them, and made magic at the same time?"

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"...if an egg hatches, and out comes a chick and a snake and a turtle, did the snake come from the turtle? Did the turtle come from the chick? Did the gods make the lot of them all at once? I certainly don't know, but they came out of their egg together."

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"Well...no, but if an egg hatches, then you can say 'even though a snake came out, it was a hen that laid it,' or, 'I have no clue where that egg came from, I didn't see it being laid, I can extrapolate from its existence that something laid it but I don't know what.' So in this metaphor is it that the chick is the spiderpeople and the snake is magic and the turtle is the Age, and the hen is the gods, or is it that the turtle is the gods and it's a mystery egg."

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"When each Age hatches, three things come out. One is a light and one is a people and one is a part of the world. I said each one for each, but maybe you misheard? Does your world have lights in its sky? You mentioned a moon..."

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"Oh yeah I guess you did mention the lights, they were just sorta less intrinsically related to the people so they didn't register as much. Plus, like, I don't really think of planets and, uh, webs, as lights. We have lights--the sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky--I guess planets too but you can only really tell those apart from stars with a telescope--and on the ground we have fire, and sometimes there are living things that glow, and if you have a volcano there's lava. Oh and lightning! And...hm...I've gotta be missing something...iron glows when you get it really hot."

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She nods, glancing up at Ezodai with an encouraging smile. "The first Age lit the Moon and filled the world with water, and there also came the mer. The second added the Planets and the earth and the serpentines. The third, the Stars and the air and the fey. The fourth hung the Sun now that there was a sky to hang it in, and gave the world fire and humans. The fifth strung the Web between the other lights, and gave us the spiderfolk and the magic they weave. Moon and Planets and Stars and Sun and Web; water and earth and air and fire and magic; mer and serpentines and fey and humans and spiderfolk. Is that a story you can hear straight?"

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"Yeah. I think I'm still a little confused, though--is your world...flat?"

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"It has a sky above and oceans below? It's not a desk." She gestures at hers, referencing its flatness. "Before the sky there was water in every direction; now water is down and air is up, and there's land scattered all around. The biggest pieces are where air and water meet, but I've been to the high earth, and heard of some that's low."

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"Huh. In my universe everything is void and vacuum except where stars have their systems. The sun is a star; and planets go around stars; the Earth is the planet people live on and happens to go around the star we call the Sun."

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"Void! I've heard people say that was what was in the world before the first Age, but I wonder what it would mean for void to... be? Isn't it exactly what isn't?"

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"Well, like..." she holds her hands out. "Within a certain space, there's a certain amount of air, right? So what happens if you take all the air out? The space doesn't stop existing."

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"Oh..." She frowns in thought. "Like a blank page of space. Yes, I see." She bounces slightly and grins. "I like you! I think we should be friends."

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"I like you too! You're right, let's be friends. I'm Ezodai."

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"And I am Likhar."

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"Lee-kar. Leekhaaar. Likhar. Did I get it right that last time?"

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"Mhm! And your name... Ézodai?"

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"That sounds weirdly accented but not entirely wrong."

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"Enough to be going on with, I think." She gazes thoughtfully into thin air. "Were you thinking of dinner? I confess I'm peckish."

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"Yeah, that sounds good." 

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