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Isabella presses her face into his shoulder.

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"Why had people taken your daemon?"

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"Because," mumbles Isabella, "they didn't like my influence on Adarin because I am not encouraging him to do what the terrible mages tell him to and have a million babies with anything female that winks at him, and they know enough about daemons to know it would hurt me and not enough to comprehend it as an atrocity."

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Adarin pets her hair, soothingly. "They will not do it again, love," he murmurs.

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"I know," she sighs, snuggling closer. To hell with not flaunting, right now all she's flaunting is trama.

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"I'm sorry."
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"Very," says Edarial. "I'm sorry."
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Adarin nods, then goes back to snuggling his wife.

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Snuggle.

"So yeah. Anyway, we can get them back now. After every person nicer than them has been brought back and we can be sure they're containable, anyway."
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"Yeah. Not for a long, long while, anyway. I don't even know how you'd go about containing mages, so - quite a long while."

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"For spellbinders there's a hex you can cast on their familiar, if you have the familiar to hand. That's how Nataliem is still in the dungeon."

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"Mages have no such neutering. It's rather annoying."

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"I would say 'not for the mages', but I suppose that's what got them killed."

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"Yes."
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"Maybe when we go home I'll ask the alethiometer about mage-neutering."

Isabella gets out her notebook and writes this down.
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"Your notebook's pretty."

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"Thanks. Adarin made it for me."
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Adarin laughs a little. "Technically I didn't make the book. I just - decorated it. And spelled it."

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"What magic thing does it do?"

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"No one but her can open it," says Adarin, brightly.

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"It's pretty great!"

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"I just write in a transliteration of Cricket's language, but I guess if there are going to be language spells around - I assume it works on print?"

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"Yyyyes but I'm not sure it'll work on a transliteration. Unless we read it aloud."

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"It isn't built to work on transliterations. It's just as terrible at cypher and code, actually. We might be able to figure it out with some effort but uh - honestly I respect privacy."

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