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"I like being safe, and feeling safe. It's inconvenient how much of my motivation structure that is, really. I like interesting medical challenges. I like stir-fried veggies with interesting spices- I like water chestnuts and tomato sauce and basil. Fresh coffee and morning news and a scroll of amusing distractions whenever I felt like it. Games to play, chess and the like. I like elegant art and decoration. I like piano music. I sort of miss simpler times where found family and I would just... Sit and talk over cooking a meal. I really liked, and miss, the internet as I've told you before, but that's not happening again any time soon. Maybe I'll commission a bunch of art, I suppose. I like having a respectable establishment that people take seriously. I also, somewhat surprisingly, found that I like teaching... When the students seem to be really listening at least."

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She hums softly. "Hmm. You could... somehow find magical armour, you have the resources. Rings of protection. You could carry scrolls for self-defence, if that would make you feel safer."

"And I would love to see you do those things, actually. 'Water chestnuts' don't translate but the rest of those do. ...I didn't know you could cook."

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She sits up in sudden thought. "The Internet is - the thing that gets you knowledge from all over your world, right? I wonder if you couldn't have it here... a physical connection to your world is hard but that might not be... I wonder..."

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"That does sound a bit hazardous, Naevys. Something to be cautious with anyway. Anyone can cook. It's cooking well that's the challenge, and also cooking for dozens of people, fast, is a serious and impressive skill set, one I don't have. But a meal for three to five in no particular hurry because the point is relaxing, sure, I can handle that."

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The problem with this is that wizards experience something analogous to alarm fatigue. It's actually part of why so many warnings are ominous and vague and riddling. Those actually fade into insignificance much more slowly, among wizards. The curiosity about what they mean makes them more salient, to most of the kinds of people who become wizards in the first place. But "that sounds dangerous, be careful" is practically grammaticalised for wizards by this stage. 

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"There's no kind of cooking I can do at all."

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"I used to cook things over campfires when I was little! But that's about it. It does sound fun, actually, a bit like alchemy." 

But mostly she's thinking about the internet. Some kind of portentous link between worlds... That's a far easier sort of Conjuration, possibly if she starts with something with a sympathetic link to that plane and builds from there...

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"We should go ingredient shopping then. And see if anyone knows about water chestnuts. They're delightfully crunchy. The internet relies on well-defined connections and protocols, wizardry seems like the wrong sort of aesthetic to interact with it successfully."

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"Is the internet mostly, like, writing? Images? I can't build an Internet connection but I can probably do something about what the Internet would say... hmmm..."

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"That sounds wonderful. This is the City of Delights, after all, we should delight in it. I bet we can find them somewhere. And other things, too."

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