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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
"So there's pets and puppets and automata and golems and shines - shades are basically a kind of shine. If you've got anything with moving parts around I can show you how to turn it into a puppet as a start, otherwise I can make you a shine to play with."
the_charm
"Okay." She finds a patch of light and peels it off for him. "Do you know how to take it as a puppet or should I start there?"
the_charm
"Okay, go ahead and do that. Predictably, I have paper, and this is a nice big shine, so I can write it some instructions longhand and they'll work just fine." She flips to a fresh notebook page and writes a short program that will fit within the shine's area, and walks him through each line in it, and then puts the program down where he can move the shine onto it.
do_over
Kidan focuses on the shine, and gets to taking it as a puppet, and then making it do things.
"Thank you," he says, smiling at the little shine.
"Thank you," he says, smiling at the little shine.
the_charm
"You're welcome. I like shines. I had a bunch of colored ones on the ceiling in a pattern in my room growing up. Left them for the next kid when I moved out, though."
the_charm
"Anyway - unlike golems, which you can't puppet again once you start them, you can turn a shine back into a puppet any time, if it's yours or the person who made it lets you. So you can stop it from going around in a circle whenever, but it'll remember this program and you can nudge it back into it until it gets a new program."
the_charm
"Yeah. So if you have them moving around in a pattern, you can pause them and then start them again without having to reprogram them. Try it."
do_over
"Is it? Then..." He looks at the shine with a look of concentration, and - it goes back to going in circles.