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Where Yellow is extremely relieved to see her. "Promise!"

"Yes. I'm working on it, hang on. Ruin, did you hear him speak?"
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No

As it happens, nobody except Promise could have. Any vibrations out of Yellow's mouth are being scrambled except between the two fairies.
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Well, there is no one else there, so that's academic.

"Do you by any other means know what he said?"
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No.

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Okay, good.

"Can you arrange that you do not hear the next single word I say, while letting Yellow hear it, and without fail resume listening to me afterwards?"
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Yes.

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"...And will that have any side effects?"

(Yellow is highly confused.)
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I will transform a piece of stone into a transparent barrier around the two of you, and it will disappear after your next single word.

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"...And this will suffice to prevent you from hearing me?" Ruin seems a little too everywhere to be balked by transparent stone, but it should know.

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The plan I'm thinking of, the one with that side effect, will prevent me from hearing you.

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"Describe the plan you are thinking of."
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There is a statue, created by the Astalsi fourteen hundred years ago, currently buried near us. I turn it into a pile of undifferentiated glass, then make the barrier out of that.
Then I decide not to hear anything on the inside.
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"So you thought of this plan because you want to wreck a statue but that doesn't actually help accomplish my goal."
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I would end up not hearing you.

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"Do not suggest extraneous steps that do not help me when I am asking you how you might go about doing things," says Promise.

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It doesn't answer.

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"If you are very obliging I may find something I want to let you destroy," Promise says.

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I'd rather destroy things you don't want me to destroy, Ruin doesn't say. I'll stop listening without doing anything else, it does.

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"When I snap my fingers, for one word, do that," says Promise. "Yellow, tell the truth - are you under any orders that would inconvenience me?"

"No."

Promise snaps her fingers.

And then she puts her mouth to Yellow's ear and cups her hands around it and murmurs, "Alisyrrabel."

And then she stands back. "Rescind all my orders," she tells Yellow.

"I rescind all your orders," Yellow says.

"Ruin, what condition is the other fairy in right now?"
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Ruin checks.
It lives. Currently flying in no particular direction, trying to find somewhere colder.
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"Tell that fairy, 'Promise has things locally under control', and then, in the same way you transported me, gently, bring her here."

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Ruin does this. In the process, it annihilates a few hundred thousand cubic feet of air.

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How nice for it.

Spellwhip is less confused than Yellow, but not by much. Promise explains the situation to her.

And then Promise asks Ruin, "What will happen if I bring you with me to Fairyland?"
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I will be in Fairyland. I will become unable to affect this world. Hemalurgic spikes will become possible to create there instead of here. Anyone with half a brain will try to steal me from you.

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"If you know your original name, don't say it, but tell me whether you do."

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