Lotus in Bensaylum
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"Oh well. In general, your world just seems really nice, there's all this technology, it sounds like things like phones and internets are really common, your god is benign and there's only one, and in all my time here I've only run into one horrifying monster and he politely declined to eat me."

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"How long have you been here?"

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"Uh, probably only a few hours? But if I had found myself teleported to a random bit of wilderness in the middle of the night on my world, having run into only one monster by now would be a bit surprising."

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"That's alarming."

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"People try not to go wandering after dark. Or, for that matter during the day. Cities are mostly safe, farms are mostly safe. Actual wilderness is lethal to most, merely dangerous if you know what you're doing. I probably could have handled most things that I would have run into wandering the wilderness. You're scarier than them."

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"True. There are things you wouldn't want to run into at night, here, but they are less plentiful than you imply is the case in your world."

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"I can't see in the dark. I'd be carrying a light, which tends to attract attention. Still, this plane seems much safer overall and I'm in no particular rush to get back."

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He nods.

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And they're back at the house. Angel? Email?

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Yes. He gets out a laptop to send the email with.

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"You're going to tell me that's not magical either and I'm even more confused about this than the refrigerator."

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"It's not magical."

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"Is there a book on this stuff? That I could read tomorrow and understand how all this stuff that you keep saying is nonmagical works?"

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"Understand to what degree? This isn't magic, but it requires a similar level of study to understand."

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"I need to know how it all works. A high-level overview might be good but so far all I have is 'not magic' and that's not enough. And I don't want to pester you with questions every time I run into something new."

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"There exist things which you can read tomorrow to improve your understanding."

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"You say that in a way that implies it's another mysterious technology thing rather than a book. But you had books in your library. If it was something that was in most respects like a book you probably would have said something like 'e-book' in the same way you said 'e-mail' to refer to internet mail. So it's either a non-internet technology thing or substantially different from a book such that it has a different name. Is 'e' the first letter in 'internet'? It doesn't sound like it but maybe English had a vowel shift that didn't change the names of the letters? How am I doing?"

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"E is for electric. Electricity is what these things run on. There exist books on how these things work, but I don't own any; someone can show you how to look for relevant sources on the internet."

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"That... sounds dangerous. The electricity, not relevant sources. I am sure it is safe, and I will look forward to learning how tomorrow. Speaking of which, it probably makes sense for me to catch some sleep tonight so I can reprepare, unless you expect a response from the angel tonight?"

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"I don't expect it, no.

Electricity is artificial lightning."

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"Yes, my magic can produce electricity, the word translated. I assume your thingy uses a more, um, tame version. Which you also undoubtedly produce without magic, it's very impressive. Could you direct me to a guest room or should I try to track down your - donor?"

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"She'll be asleep again by now, I can show you the way."

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Follow follow.

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He leads her to the wing where his human guests stay and shows her an empty room.

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And she will put her books down and alarm the room and the door and the window and then undress and sleep.

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