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Annie is on her trike on her way to school.
This van labeled HAZARDOUS MATERIALS is also on its way to school.
The van hits a patch of black ice. It goes spinning, it turns over, it slices itself open on a wrought-iron fence with spikes, and it disgorges boxes which smash open on the pavement. Some of them skitter clear into the slush.
Some of them - along with most of the van - land on Annie.
There is a whirl of bewildering pain and confusion -
- and she falls to the ground, injured and in more kinds of discomfort beyond that and moaning.
She slowly starts to heal before the eyes of her sole witness.
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"Completely. And I'm keeping the healing power. Humming, singing, musical instruments, anything you could broadly call a musical note has the effect, but I don't care much about it in brief jolts and when I walked up to the tavern I could still leave under my own power even when it got bad. The jump from nothing to unpleasantness is pretty fast as you approach music, but there's enough of a lead-in that I think most people could turn around and go the other way if they were walking slowly and paying attention. It seemed to correspond pretty closely to whether or not I could hear music even though we know it doesn't strictly depend on hearing."
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He shrugs out of his golem suit and hugs her. "What have you been reading?"
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Snuggle! "History. Apparently there's a hypothesis that the fertility problems are at least partly about low levels of taint. So I might wind up wanting to poke people a lot."
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"Oh, yeah, I've heard that somewhere. No idea how true it is. I'm sure plenty of people will be happy to feel oddly warm for a few seconds if it gives them a chance at having children more easily."
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Hug! "That was what I was going to do if I'd been able to go into artifact studies - statistics stuff. Artifacts seem to have things - weird things, but things - to do with the traits of the people who leave them when they die. If there were more information about who leaves artifacts, and which things they are, and what about them matters, it might be possible to control the generation process in some way."
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"Ooh, nice." He kisses her on the cheek. "I recommend Aeducan's memoir particularly, by the way, I admire him deeply."
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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee "I can read that one next. I wanted context before I tried anything that might be relying particularly heavily on it."
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"So um," she says, "you have been kissing me and I would like to know if there is some - guideline you are following and if I should have a copy."
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"...I probably either need something resembling an actual rule or to just stick to being passively delighted about it every time."
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"I don't do anything because I'm paranoid about overdoing it. Um, I can only sort of read facial expressions, I'm working on it."
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"When I kiss you," he says, "and you get that look on your face, I feel really satisfied, like I've accomplished something difficult and important. That may not be strictly relevant, it just seemed like the sort of thing you might like to know."
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Snuggle-hug.
"I'm having a hard time coming up with a rule. Perhaps because I'm not sure what the rule is meant to guard against? What is the nature of 'overdoing it'?"
"I'm having a hard time coming up with a rule. Perhaps because I'm not sure what the rule is meant to guard against? What is the nature of 'overdoing it'?"
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Well, now she's bright pink. "Um, is 'getting carried away' enough information or do I have to be specific."
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"Does it help if I say you can assume my offer of marriage extends to normal marital activities?"
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"...For one thing, define 'help', and for another do you mean like after we get married or - before that."
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"I mean, does it make it easier to decide how to govern your behaviour. And since the decision of when we'll actually get married is almost totally political, it doesn't seem to me like waiting will add anything."