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Nod.

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There is a prayer over lunch; it's in yet another language and their translator shrugs. Then the children chatter excitedly about their days. It does not sound like orcs go to school.

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What do they do instead?

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This one invented a new playground game and tried enforcing the rules but people weren't very good at listening; this one is making a presentation about how airplanes work and spent the day reading about it, this one went to the library to try to find a High Era translation of some religious text but got distracted by some other religious text, which he brings out to question his father about; this one helps put together the weekly commentary on a chapter in orcish history but she didn't know much about the topic so she did the artwork while a friend wrote the piece.

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"Who do you deliver the presentations to?"

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Religious presentations are for temple, the airplanes one is just for grandma who asked for help learning about airplanes. "She might get a job at the airport. It wouldn't be an engineering job but she wants to know how they work."

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"Awww, that's sweet of you to help her."

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He takes this as a cue to chatter at length about airplanes.

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Does he want a model airplane from Cam's homeworld?

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Oh gosh yes he would like that so much.

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Teeny 737!

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He has lots of questions about powered flight in Cam's homeworld!

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Cam can answer some of them but not most.

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That's okay! If it gets ruled that summoning is allowed he will get books and if not he will wait for a Dwarf to die and then get books! 

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"I could do books but my translation wouldn't be very good. Is there a particular rule that may be interpreted as forbidding summoning?"

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"No but it's the Elf-gods setting it up and permitting it and we try to be cautious around things they orchestrate, since the last one was arresting all our Maiar and the one before that was taking oaths away."

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"They're actually not so much permitting it as forbidding it in unauthorized locations. It works by default, it's just dangerous."

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"How is it dangerous?"

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"Daeva are really powerful."

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"Maybe one of them could get Melkor out!" one of the kids says excitedly.

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Twitch.

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She falls quiet.

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"Not really the sort of thing our powers are good at."

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Nod.

Airplanes kid starts talking again.

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Yay for airplanes kid!

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