He's going to kill them they have to get away--
she commands it--
and then they are away and it occurs to her that she never specified where to. She slowly unclenches her arms from their death grip around her sister and looks around.
He's going to kill them they have to get away--
she commands it--
and then they are away and it occurs to her that she never specified where to. She slowly unclenches her arms from their death grip around her sister and looks around.
"Little enough time that it hasn't been worth it so far to come up with a sufficiently strict way of checking. Possibly little enough that it wouldn't be worth it to go through one if it existed."
"Yeah. My family owns some farmland and grazing area - free and clear, if you were worried about blues breathing down my neck, it's not rented out - and if it stepped up production that'd be swell."
"Okay. There's one more thing you need to understand. The magic murder and mind-affecting things? They're not just incentivized through social stigma. People who break them die."
"Okay... uh, I don't mind personally, I wasn't going to go into mental health or commit murder, but maybe make sure you're on the same page as governments about stuff before you start doing DIY criminal justice."
"It's understood to stand separate from conventional governments back home but this is not back home and I will do that."
"Okay. I'm tentatively willing to teach you. I'll let you know when I've done enough interviews to see if it's worth doing a class or just individual teaching."
"You're welcome."
And then she and Odette leave.
They go back to Tapa.
So I ended up agreeing to teach some clean Amentans magic conditional on them convincing me they weren't interested in using it to make reds' lives uh, obsolete, do you want me to come over very discreetly and see if I can teach you now? she asks Peka.
Peka hoists Katin up into a convenient carrying position and waves at somebody across the street and goes inside her house. It's a rowhouse, not like the apartments that dominate the district.