demon!Edie in daeva!Arda
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"That's just what we call them. Chip-interfaced sensory and cognition improvements - perfect recall, better working memory, enhanced senses and sensory processing, that kind of thing..."

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"Ooh, yes."

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"You can pull up a list of the ones I've got and go from there."

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She creates the list.

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Balance (chip), reflexes (chip), autonomic control (chip), deflecting projectiles (area-effect), grounding electricity (touch), wireless charger (area-effect), eloquence (chip), working memory (chip), recall (chip), temperature (area-effect), better osanwe range and precision (chip), sense magnetism (area-effect), improved visual acuity  (chip and surgery), improved auditory acuity (chip and surgery), ability to see ultraviolet and infrared light (chip and surgery), temporary strength (area-effect), temporary inertia (area-effect), healing (touch)...

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"Chip me. I want the magnetism one at the very least," she says, reading over her sister's shoulder.

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"Yeah, okay." She does that. "Wow. Wow. What do the designations mean, though, area-effect and so on?"

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"You don't load the blessings directly to your chip, you make little transponders." He opens his collar to pull out an exquisitely pretty necklace. "Some blessings work just from the necklace, lots of them interface with your chip. Most of them work on you, but the ones designated area-effect have a specific radius from the transponder. Touch means it's activated by contact with the transponder - some people get them in their fingers so it's more convenient -"

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"So anyone a certain range from the necklace could sense magnetism?"

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"Nah, you can sense magnetism within a certain range."

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"Makes sense. Is the healing self or others? Not that it matters as much for me, granted."

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"Touch. 'healing' is actually a nice word for it, what it does it let us transfer our general autonomic control to another person - so you can use it to do things like touch someone who's unconscious and fix whatever's causing it, but you could also, if they didn't have a blessing for autonomic control themselves, touch a conscious person and tell their heart to stop. Your binding won't let you do that, but I'm assuming you're taking it home with you, and possibly eventually handing it out, so - now you know."

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"...I will be careful handing that one out."

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"You'll have a hard time doing so anyway, it's a tricky bit of electronics. But yeah. Part of the reason the Valar discourage travel from here to other worlds is that everyone here is pretty dangerous, there, if we want to be."

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"That is a non-terrible reason. So are the transponders embedded in the necklace such that I can design anything I want to put them in or are they part of the necklace's design such that I'd have to learn to make 'em from scratch to get anything but a copy of one that already exists?"

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"Embedded in the necklace. They come in lots of forms, I can take you out to go see a store - or Edie can fetch the contents of the nearest modern blessings shop -"

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"Will that fit in this room? And fail to be illegal for reasons of plagiarism or what have you?"

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"I have royal prerogative to ignore laws about theft, and I don't have to bind daeva to them either. I don't do it often, it's not good for the economy. But under the circumstances most of the usual considerations don't apply."

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"Royal prerogative to ignore laws about theft. Okay then. Well, you're right that it doesn't apply as much in this situation." She makes the things.

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"We're actually above all of the local laws, though not the laws of the Valar. In emergency situations like this one it's convenient."

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"Pretty," the angel says. She starts looking at the blessings and composing a necklace design in her head. It's very well put together, if stylistically novel.

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"Enjoy. I am not going to get to summon anyone from your dimension again, am I? Pity, you're much more similar to us in goals and personalities than the native daeva."

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"...Not going to get to...?"

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"You're acquiring all our technology; I'm going to need to pull from somewhere that wants things I can give them."

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"Well, there's us, we haven't stopped being different kinds of daeva who live in different planes of existence when not on summons. And it's only demons who get impossible to pay when information gets proliferated anyway."

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