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Sylvi settles in very thoroughly. She makes a point of going out on her wooden horse and wandering the city every day or two, even if she has no specific errand to run (although she does also place orders for lenses and very fine-tipped pens and new notebooks). She hugs Avedan when he has bad dreams and he hugs her when she does, if they successfully wake one another despite the long pillow between them on the bed. And she plows through piles and piles of old notes, and condenses her childhood for inclusion in the same library for future 'bels.
As of this moment she is up to her specialization in shines. Write write write.
if_at_first
the_charm
"Okay." She fidgets. "Um, I can tell you almost as much as Charp can, I've read a lot of my past notes. If you have questions. And you'll believe answers that come from me instead of Charp."
the_charm
"He - I don't know how much you remember or from when, I'll just sort of - you were big into public health, before you even met Aly but especially after she died." Lu shudders a little. "Uh, and - sarcastic but terrible at lying - and you were a servantmaker, are you still? I am again, three for three now - um - and you were - he was -" She wrings her hands. "We were -" She stops.
the_charm
"But - you reincarnate too. So - that's good. Kib was -" She shakes her head again. "Devastated."
the_charm
"That's good." She blushes and looks away again. "I'm glad you're alive. Even if I totally botched finding you."
the_charm
"By finding you I meant the part where I - indicated to you that you had been found. Not the part where a parrot landed on you."
do_over
"It's okay," he says, in a - tone of voice that's probably very familiar. Comforting and soft. "Really. I'm not - writing you or anything off, it was just a bit. I was caught off guard."
the_charm
"Servantmaking, again, theoretical instructional research - I mean, I can make pets and puppets and I've actually built golems and programmed shines in the course of theorem-proving but it's mostly theory."