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a little mermaid in a fantasy larp school
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'Yes please.  I think I can do better with writing that is writing and not talking because I can take more time, but not if I don't know the words at all.'

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Paju runs to fetch her vocab builder books, which are basically just normal science fiction novels that have been selected for having lots of words in them and making them pretty easy to understand from context.

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'Thank you!'  Click.  'Should I attach a light to something so the truth person will see that it moves with it and it will look more surely magic?  Or just bring a light downstairs before she gets here?'

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"I think you should create the light while she watches," says Shavan.

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'Okay.'

She can just warm up with her harp until the Committed arrives, then.

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She shows up after dinner things have been cleared away and much of the household has dispersed. She's wearing a uniform, long bishop-sleeve robe-dress with a long vest over it; the vest has pins on it. "I'm here to investigate claims of magic," she says blandly.

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Cyllene resolves the harmonic tension in the line she was playing and waves. 

'I will play music to make a magic light,' she announces, and then she starts again with a tune in a completely different style than a moment ago, with soft crescendos and arpeggiated chords that give way to ones sustained over the start of the next line, fluttering and floaty.

And in well under a minute there's a glowing ball, grapefruit-sized, hovering in front of the Committed.

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The Committed blinks at this. "Is it safe to touch?"

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Nod.

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She touches it. Intersects her hand with it. Makes shadow puppets with it. Inquires if it does anything else.

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'I can make it do other things but if I didn't it would stay just there until I die.'

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"What can you make it do?"

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'Disappear or change colors or be attached at a distance to a person or object or move around or be touchable or be brighter or dimmer.  And more.'

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"Can you cause it to follow me?"

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She nods and returns to her harp, picking up what sounds like another movement from the previous piece.  After a few minutes the light starts twitching and bobbing with any movements the Committed makes, instead of floating in perfect stillness.

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She walks around the room a bit.

"May I take this outside?"

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Nod.  'Do I come too or stay here?'

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"Stay here, please. I will be back in just a few minutes if the walk goes within the range of ways I expect." And she takes it for a stroll around the block.

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The light follows her, although it stays in a consistent cardinal direction rather than moving to keep in front of her.  When she turns around it's closer to her back than her front; it seems to be keeping a constant distance of about two feet from the bottom of her sternum, wherever her sternum goes.

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She tries going up stairs and into a public bathroom and so on and eventually comes back to the house. "Thank you. I am done observing this light for the time being."

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'Should I get rid of it?'

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"I do not want it to be attached to me any longer. Its further disposition seems to me your business."

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After maybe thirty seconds of Cyllene playing some fade-y out-y lines the light disappears.

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"Is that all you wish to demonstrate to me this evening?"

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'I can understand any language.'

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