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maurabel and penumbra go on an adventure
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They appear in midair, visible out of a few thirtieth-floor apartments.

One starts to fall. The other catches her by the arm, flings out - wing-shapes of light - and slows her, spiraling down until they're at street level.

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" - you could put on a hat, if you don't want everyone to get all excited -"

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"I don't mind if they have pictures of me..."

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"All right! Where do you want to go, anywhere in particular?"

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"I don't know what's in walking distance of here. Schools? Gardens? Do you have temples, at home those are often very pretty."

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"There are schools and gardens. I don't know the word 'temples' -"

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"Uh, people build them to honor powerful beings who supposedly stuff."

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"...there are monuments to people who died fighting for important things?"

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"No, like, there's humans, and elementals, and then temple things, which are called gods. Except they aren't actually... around."

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"I don't think we have those."

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"I don't think we do either but the buildings are nice."

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"I will look up the prettiest buildings in this area," he says, and types that into the pocket everything, and then points them ahead to a public park with an accompanying greenhouse.

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Nice.

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And then they can meander onto this university campus and through its art museum! People crowd around taking pictures. News helicopters fly overhead getting video.

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"I hope those things aren't hard to avoid flying," Maurabel remarks of the helicopters.

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"They go really slow but we can ground them if you think she'd be safer."

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"I'm not really sure how flight works, like that. Probably she won't get close."

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"They can do their thing."

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Art museum!! More interested people!

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Wow, the art here is cooler than most art they have at home, they haven't even invented perspective yet!

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Does she want to learn, these art students will totally explain!

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Sure why not!

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Deliriously excited art students get materials brought in and explain how perspective works and various other inventions of post-Bronze-Age painting.

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Maurabel is not an artist but this is interesting!

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They're glad she enjoys it! They ask all kinds of questions about her world, which Afen translates: what work does she do there, why did she decide to travel worlds, why did she come here in particular, what is the thing she likes most about here, does she miss anything about home, how long is she staying...

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