Milan and Odette and Illia in Trinity
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"It's exactly the sort of thing I'd do if I let myself do that sort of thing."

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"I'm not quite certain whether 'my condolences for your stifled cleverness' sounds congratulatory or condescending. I apologize, if the latter."

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"I choose to take it in the kinder spirit. Thank you."

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"It was intended as such. If you had been born in this world, I would--certainly wish that you had been born in Genosha."

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"High praise on such short acquaintance!"

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"I have power to help my people that the other Great Mages tend not to exert on behalf of those in their vicinity. It does not take much for me to wish that someone had been born within my sphere of influence."

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"Well, fair enough."

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"May I ask if you know how you ended up here?"

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"I was walking past a school building and a wall blew out in front of me and then I was falling out of your ceiling. I surmise the Interplanar Studies people were doing something they shouldn't."

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"You have knowledge of other planes in yours? How do you study them, if you can't do any experiments?"

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"I'm not an interplanar studies major myself. But we can study things, generally. Through observation and practice, without getting ahead of yourself or trying to take reality apart at the seams. It's usually safe. There's a reason I didn't go into thaumatology, though. Arrogant thaumatologists tend to have accidents."

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"That sounds...excruciating."

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"A bit, yes."

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"Do you want to go back? Before or after seeing the properties of this world demonstrated. I don't know if I could return you--I've never heard of anything like this before--but I have the best chance out of anyone else in this world of doing it."

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"I'm genuinely not sure," he sighs. "If your world is as you say... it represents an incredible danger and an incredible opportunity. I'm not sure I should go home even after as little exposure as I've had, let alone what I'd accumulate in however long it took you to send me home. The mental balancing act that's been keeping my natural arrogance from driving me into an early grave is very delicate and I don't think it's responding well to this disturbance."

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"If I can send you home, I can almost certainly do it immediately," Atennesi assures him.

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"Really? Why?"

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He considers this. "Because that's how our magic works. I admit I'm not entirely certain why you think it ought to take longer than that."

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"...Granted I'm no thaumatologist, but I'm under the impression that it's normally useful to have some idea what you're doing when you try to accomplish something with magic. If interplanar studies does not exist as a local discipline, I'd expect you to have to reinvent it in order to get anywhere. Even in a nice, friendly plane that doesn't mind you reading over its shoulder, I'd expect that to take longer than five minutes!"

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"If I can access your plane at all, I expect to be able to do so through you. If that fails, and reaching your plane is otherwise possible, I do expect that it would take more than five minutes," he agrees.

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"That does make somewhat more sense."

He rubs his face, and thinks, and sighs, and shakes his head.

"I shouldn't go home," he says. "I'd get obsessed with the lost opportunity and do something stupid and die."

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"I'm sorry," he says sincerely. "If I had had any idea this sort of thing might come up I would have had better policies in place."

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"Okay, now I'm deeply curious what policy you'd put in place to handle cases like this."

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"If someone appears out of nowhere, don't talk to them, and be able to get me immediately," he says, "is the first possibility that comes to mind, but obviously I would think about it for a great deal longer before deciding on a long-term policy."

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"I approve of you being in charge of a flying island kingdom."

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