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#11 calls in a strike team
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He can be in about fifteen minutes!

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She'll hang around in the mess hall for ten, then, and sing only slightly exaggerated tales of the epic battle of Txell's squad vs a pair of Babaus.

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(Txell bows.)

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And then the commander's out of his meeting.

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She's got papers for him! She starts by giving him a copy of her formal transfer agreement. (She and Rowen have both signed it already. He doesn't need to do anything with it, but given how he is about Law, she thinks he'll want it.)

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He puts it in his to-be-copied tray. "Thank you very much."

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She smiles at him. "Of course!" 

Then she reaches into her bag and pulls out two obviously wizard-scribed stacks of paper, one much shorter than the other. "The Acts and the Lastwall handbook. ...I can make a few copies for you this evening, if you'd like."

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"I think I want the handbook copied by my wizards, as a first-pass way to introduce its contents - unless it surprises me very greatly - but I'd appreciate that about the Acts, which I will be expecting somewhat fewer people to read." He finds a book's worth of paper for her.

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Cool! Does he mind if she just scribes it here? That way he can read the pages as she finishes copying them.

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"That sounds like it'd work well." He clears desk space for her.

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She sits down, smiles at him, and casts the spell. The quill merrily dances across the page.  

(Scrivener's chant takes concentration, but not so much so that she can't glance at him while he reads, or chat with him about what he's reading, if he wants.)

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He's reading the handbook like he's one-in-a-million among Chelish people for latent Iomedaeanism.

 

"So, if I adopt this I'm going to have to execute people for rape, which I'm lawfully entitled to implement if I wish but which will predictably have the consequence of me executing some people, and perhaps that's what it would take to have anyone take this seriously but it would at least have less fallout if I dismissed the camp followers. This does not, as you suggested, really help those camp followers, but it'd reduce the incidence occurring under this regime to only those men who go for the cooks or something, so the Wound as a whole would be bleeding less manpower and fewer people would go to Hell so soon after the regime change."

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