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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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"Yes."
He shows her several stacks of metal ingots.
"Which of these appear similar to you, and which different? Can you sort them into identical-seeming groups?"
He shows her several stacks of metal ingots.
"Which of these appear similar to you, and which different? Can you sort them into identical-seeming groups?"
time-goes-on
She ends up with a neatly organized chart, columns of various metals with rows of lyrium content from 'none' to 'lots', and the two examples of specific runic patterns each one to a row.
"You have the discernment of a master smith," says Caridin. "There are few who could complete this task so quickly."
"You have the discernment of a master smith," says Caridin. "There are few who could complete this task so quickly."
time-goes-on
Caridin, unable to smile, nods instead.
"Is this, too, a magic you can offer to others? Many smiths might be interested."
"Is this, too, a magic you can offer to others? Many smiths might be interested."
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"Yyyyes but the corresponding drawback is being blind and deaf with no sense of smell or Stonesense either if you normally have that. And I can only hear words through it because of a different thing I have. Which I could also share, its only drawback is an inability to distinguish people's faces which doesn't matter if you're also blind."
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"I can remove it, from other people, when they're done with it, it's only me who has to keep it all the time."
time-goes-on
"Still, to lose one's Stone-sense, however briefly... even a golem keeps that."
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"I never had one, so it doesn't bother me, but I get the impression it's very important."
keep_busy
"Well, it's up to them if they'd like to try it. In the meantime what are the applications of my - texture distinguishing? I'm not sure I'll be very good at smithing per se. I'm really klutzy. Not magically, I just always have been."
time-goes-on
"I am unsure. Discernment has many uses, but the uses I know of are all very much tied to the craft... I will think about it."
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"I appreciate that. And - I have decent fine motor control, I just shouldn't try to handle anything heavy or that would be a disaster if dropped. Unless I'm sitting down."
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Stalas proceeds directly to this room, pokes his head in the door, and says: "Bicycles!"
