imrainai in Silmaril
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"It's like with the healing - the people who get it promise to spend most of their time resurrecting people, which is quite a lot to promise when you're still a kid and don't know how else you might spend it."

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"Well if you gave it to more people then they could do other things, too. But I have to save my aunt and my siblings and defeat my evil tyrant father first. Then I want to be a wizard, though."

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"That sounds like a good plan." They stop in front of a building. "It's this one. Do you want me to go in with you?"

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"Not if you have stuff to do. Thanks for walking me over here, though." 

She walks into the building.

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There are seats and a desk. "Hi!" says the person at the desk. "This is relocation services. What's your name?"

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"Vigdis Yngling, Princess of Scandinavia."

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"Hi, Vigdis! It's wonderful to have you here. What can I help you with?"

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"I want my aunt to leave Scandinavia, but she won't, because she thinks she wouldn't get to keep her kids with her, and also the emperor would be mad if she left with them and it would mess up diplomatic relations between Scandinavia and Vanda Nossëo. Also my mom is dead and I am supposed to ask if you can resurrect her."

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"Do you want us to resurrect your mom?"

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"I guess? My dad says she was pretty cool."

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"Okay. Do you want to come over here and sit down in my office? We can talk about a plan so your aunt and her kids can leave Scandanavia, and maybe talk more about your mom."

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"I guess. Also I put in a request for invisibility magic but I don't know how that works."

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"We can check on the status of your request for invisibility magic, too. Do you want anything to eat or drink while we talk?"

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"I guess. It's strictly less important than all of the other things, but I did skip breakfast today."

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She pulls out a tray of unfamiliar snacks. "We stock lots of things so you can see what you like, all right? How long do you have to be here today, are you expected back?"

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"Well I snuck out of the castle and eventually someone'll notice I'm gone, but I guess I can probably tell them that I snuck out to beat up the baker's son or something."

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"Okay. So if I set up an apartment right now for you and your aunt and her children and a live-in assistant, what do you think your aunt would say to that?"

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"She'd say that she's gonna get in trouble for kidnapping the emperor's kids. And also that it'll make things more complicated between Scandinavia and Vanda Nossëo because you can't just go kidnapping kids."

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"Our courts resolve custody disputes. They would be very likely to resolve this one by giving your aunt full custody and the father of her children visitation. If she did the court appearance and got the custody ruling before leaving, would that help?"

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"Maybe? Why would they let her keep them?"

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"It says here in my notes from your conversation with the guide that their father had your mother murdered?"

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"Well he had her sacrificed to the gods 'cause she tried to murder him. He had it coming though."

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"Do you know anything about what he did to have it coming?"

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"He abducted her and a bunch of other people and made 'em be his concubines. And he's an evil pagan tyrant who does human sacrifices." Probably one of those things works out to having it coming even if you're really against murder and stuff.

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"So there are a lot of things that would make the judge think that your aunt should have the children, like that he abducts people and that he does human sacrifices. That does not sound like a good environment for children to be raised in. How old are your cousins?"

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