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In this room are two women, one gray and sixty years old, one just thirty and red-haired, both wearing elaborate outfits. The younger casts a spell.
In this room is now also a third person. (On whom the elder woman promptly also casts a spell, which she had at the ready.)
Matilda in Elcenia
missnicegirl
He can still see dragon magic. But after a few ticks he can see it much more clearly, and with a kind of aura of understanding that explains which parts are important for what; and a few ticks after that, he can see ialdae, on himself and Jensal like bonfires and on Matilda like a tiny sun.
"Did it work?" asks Matilda.
"Did it work?" asks Matilda.
"I... believe so, though I presume what I'm seeing on you is not dragon magic," says Ludei.
Ehail helps Jensal undo her spell too.
Ehail helps Jensal undo her spell too.
missnicegirl
"No, it's ialdae. I'm not surprised about that," says Matilda. "I think it makes sense that if your ialdae can see any other magic, it can see itself too. Jensal? Are you seeing it?"
missnicegirl
"Okay."
She brings them all to the bottom of the world.
"Natural form, please, Ehail. And watch what I'm doing, you two."
She brings them all to the bottom of the world.
"Natural form, please, Ehail. And watch what I'm doing, you two."
missnicegirl
"See the hole in her magic? And see what it's pulling on? What I do is I put my ialdae there instead," she does this, "and then the hole in her magic is pulling on my ialdae, but I've got lots and lots and I'm not going to run out so it's okay, and then I tell it to stop going through," she does this, "and it stays in the hole and fills it up with ialdae and the ialdae knows its job is to stay there and keep her alive, so it does that. And now she's fixed."
She looks up at Ludei and Jensal.
"Did that make sense? Do you think you could do it too?"
She looks up at Ludei and Jensal.
"Did that make sense? Do you think you could do it too?"
missnicegirl
"Okay. Well, we can go back to Ludei's house and get the next batch and you can watch me fix all those. I usually do it faster than that but it's the same set of steps every time."
missnicegirl
Matilda fixes them all, so fast that each individual shren has less than a split to spray her ialdae everywhere before the holes in their magic fill up and Matilda moves on to the next one.
Some of them catch ialdae. All of them have a little in them now, but a few are generating more.
Some of them catch ialdae. All of them have a little in them now, but a few are generating more.
Jensal and Ludei notice that. Ludei starts a list of who has caught ialdae.
And they find some shrens who are willing to be experimented upon by less experienced curers.
Jensal manages, with less grace but no death; Ludei does the same with the next one.
And they find some shrens who are willing to be experimented upon by less experienced curers.
Jensal manages, with less grace but no death; Ludei does the same with the next one.
"Magically speaking, yes," says Jensal, "but we don't yet have the hang of batch ialdic teleporting."
missnicegirl
"Okay. It's probably good for you to practice the fixing, though. So I'll bring down the batches and and you can fix them."
Back to Ludei's house they go.
Back to Ludei's house they go.
missnicegirl
"I have time to do the next house, too. I'll bring both of you so you can help," says Matilda.
To the last shren house they go.
To the last shren house they go.
And soon there are no more shrens in it.
"There are," says Jensal, "lots of shrens who don't live in houses, because their parents took them home or they moved out as adults, but they'll be harder to assemble in batches. If you've got other demands on your time we can just learn to teleport and handle them in ones and twos ourselves as they trickle in."
"There are," says Jensal, "lots of shrens who don't live in houses, because their parents took them home or they moved out as adults, but they'll be harder to assemble in batches. If you've got other demands on your time we can just learn to teleport and handle them in ones and twos ourselves as they trickle in."
missnicegirl
"I am doing lots of things," says Matilda. "If you can fix the rest by yourself and don't have to wait for me, then that's good. But I should come back sometimes to see if you need anything and tell you if ialdae learns more things you might want to know about."
missnicegirl
"Okay. Bye for now, then."
Matilda goes home. Matilda continues attending witchcraft lessons and being excited about witchcraft.
Her next ialdae lesson with Sarsia and Annei comes around. She shows up for it. "Did you hear that I taught ialdae a new thing?"
Matilda goes home. Matilda continues attending witchcraft lessons and being excited about witchcraft.
Her next ialdae lesson with Sarsia and Annei comes around. She shows up for it. "Did you hear that I taught ialdae a new thing?"
missnicegirl
"Yes," she says. "But I don't think I could teach either of you to do it because it takes a lot of ialdae and I don't think you have enough. I can explain how I did it, though."