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a little mermaid in a fantasy larp school
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Oh good!!

Cyllene eats as quickly as possible and makes sure her hands are very clean and then starts playing quietly under the table's conversation.

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"What song is that?" Sinzy asks.

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Cyllene has two hands; she can play and write at the same time.

It isn't one.

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"Just making it up as you go?"

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Nod nod.

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"It's pretty!"

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Thank you.
You are well?

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"Yeah, I'm okay. Yesterday I had an appointment in the morning and then just spent the afternoon home instead of coming in for the last couple hours."

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. . . Cyllene nods and starts to reach for her pencil but just goes back to playing before picking it up.

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Sinzy tilts her head but doesn't follow up on that and lets herself get drawn into watching another kid do card tricks.

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Whaaaaaaaaat are thoooooose!!  What is that!!!

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The kid announces the names of each trick before doing them but does not explain how they are done!

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How to phrase it so she doesn't wreck anyone's fun -

What is this kind of magic?

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"You can look up the names of the spells after school if you want," Sinzy whispers under the card trick patter. "That's why he says them all, so nobody's upset about not knowing how to learn them."

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Oh, nodnod!

She stops playing to write them down because it seems hard to get them exactly right otherwise (and important that they be exactly right).

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Eventually the kid runs out of card tricks and everyone finishes their food and goes back to what they were doing.

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Cyllene decides she wants to spend this afternoon reading another book with a story; what's the selection look like now that there's enough light to see the titles?

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The fiction is organized by genre, then author! Does she want HISTORICAL, FUTURISTIC, HIGH FANTASY, MUNDANE MODERN, MODIFIED MODERN, MODIFIED HISTORICAL, MAGECRAFT FICTION, or MISCELLANEOUS?

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Hmmmmm mundane modern?

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Mundane modern has titles such as:

Summer in Cape Starfield
Dionel and Me
The Blizzard of 38
Apprentices of the Woodworker Sachun
Scritcher
Mirad's Garden
Lizzen and Carasli
Train Tour (A Traveling Family Book)

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Ooh, lots of those sound interesting but she wants to know what Summer in Cape Starfield is about.

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It is about a kid whose mom is very sick. To increase ambient household slack they send her and her two younger siblings to visit her grandparents in their house in Cape Starfield. She tries to help with the younger kids but most of the book is about her organizing things in her grandparents' attic and becoming able to open her eyes underwater and making friends with a local boy.

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Humans can swim but only sort of open their eyes underwater??  What sort of things does she organize?

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She's used to having goggles, but hers break and she doesn't want to stop swimming to go buy another pair, plus money is slightly tight and she feels bad about asking for purchases. She organizes their old photos and old clothes and knickknacks they never unpacked when they moved here.

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Huh.  Photographs seem interesting.

She rereads a few passages once she finishes and then goes back to harping until Shavan comes back.

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