Surprise, a door to Milliways! | Glowfic Constellation

"That wasn't what I meant!" says Leekath, exasperated. "I meant you could wish to not be a kama after all. I shouldn't even describe anything else, you'll just load yourself up with more things you don't know how to handle."

Amy starts to say something but Flora squeezes her hand and reasons aloud, "You're very responsible and you were right about not giving out coins, but this is different, I know how to use kamai now, I can handle it. Can't say the same for Amy-" "Hey!" "-but she had coins anyway, so if she does anything without thinking it through, it was just a matter of time anyway."
Flora conjures some gems, orders mashed potatoes from Bar and sits down to eat. It was almost lunchtime when she came in.

"Kyma who know how to use it also make terrible decisions about it sometimes! You don't know what the forbidden workings are, you might wind up giving someone else spontaneous kamai and not know how to teach them to stop setting things on fire, it's hereditary if you ever have children and they'll need to be taught too!"

Flora swallows and says, "Well, I imagine the forbidden workings are forbidden because they're evil in some way, and I know exactly what each working does. We have forbidden magics too. How does spontaneous kamai work? Is there any reason to not use coins to teach it?"

Amy looks about to put something in, but she gets squeezed again.
She asks bar for some music she hasn't heard yet.

"The forbidden workings are forbidden because they are too close to things that are 'evil', some of them. One of my kamai teachers was charged by a goddess to make sure kamai didn't get out of control on my world, that's why only a couple people know how to give it out, and you're circumventing that entirely! Also your coins are evil and hate you and will hurt you if they can!"

"I'm not from your world, am I?" Flora answers. "Wait, what? What do you mean evil, can I make them nice? Amy! You didn't mention that!"

"This is news to me too!" she shouts. "So, can we un-evil them or something?"

"You can - cripple them," Leekath says reluctantly. "So they don't do anything evil. With smaller wishes. But I'm only telling you that because in larger sizes they'd be more evil than you are careless, not because I actually think it's a great idea for you to suddenly be more effective at doing things you don't understand!"

"They have larger sizes?" asks Amy.

"Can I install a confirmation window into your head? One that won't close until you've thought things through? You really need it," Flora says.

"What? No!" She remembers how she gave out powerful magic to a stranger, and amends, "...Okay, fine, you're right." she sighs. "Go ahead."

Flora makes a bunch of coins and declaws them, going all the way from triangles.
She tries to make the confirmation window. Pentagon? No. Hex?

"Did you think through the concept of adding a 'confirmation window' to someone's head?" Leekath wonders despairingly.

"Yes, I think. It will only activate if she's using a big coin, and it won't activate if she's in danger. Am I missing anything?" asks Flora.

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The door opens.

"For the love of God don't tell them about the existence of any kinds of magic or anything remotely potentially dangerous from your world!" Leekath tells the newcomer without even pausing to look at her.

"...Why?" asks said newcomer.

"They're just granting themselves new magical powers at whim! And then installing safeguards that they took about four seconds to think of and figuring that does the trick!"

"I'm not just figuring it does the trick, I asked you to name any problems you see and if I think of any myself, I will update it! ...Hello, I'm Flora, this is Amy-" Amy waves, "-and Leekath. What's your name?" asks Flora.

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"...Cayra," says, apparently, Cayra. "Um, I'm glad you met her first and not me because if I'd just told you about my magic and you'd gone and installed too much of it you'd be a wreck of a human being who could not understand language, conceptualize personhood, or stop setting things on fire, among other drawbacks..."

"That sounds terrible, can I try to fix it for you? I have nice wishes. I can undo anything I do. Do you know why it happens?" asks Flora.

Amy is just going to go and listen to music in the back yard. Maybe while flying. This is getting boring.

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"I know what I'm doing with it, thanks," says Cayra. "Aaaand I'm not sure I should go into too much more detail?"

"This one's not as bad as her friend," sighs Leekath. "...But still."

"I won't magic it for myself, I promise. I just want to fix it," Flora says. She is telling the truth, but no one knows this... "I can say that under lie detection if either of you has any?" she offers.

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"I have," says Leekath, "but would you tell your friend about it?"

"What exactly did they do?" Cayra asks Leekath.

"Magicked up a strictly regulated form of hereditary magic which can be contagious in uncontrolled form."

"Oh dear."

"Only if you agree to it too," she says honestly. "Wait, you never told me it was contagious, I thought I could only make someone spontaneous with coins!" she says, concerned.

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"If you do kamai, near anyone who is not already a kama, they may catch spontaneous kamai, especially if they're around your age," Leekath says. "I don't think it happens if you're just passively a kama without doing anything about it, I don't know the range, and these are the sorts of things that would have been addressed if you'd gotten kamai in the approved fashion."

"Am I at risk of this?" asks Cayra.

"Only if I or they do kamai, which my lie detection would be. It's a small risk, and I'd notice, and I could help you address it safely or at least give you the tools to do it on your own. But if they go and do kamai in a city..."

"Gotcha."

"Oh. Note to self, go somewhere with no people around when doing kamai. Hmm." She conjures parchment and a quill and writes it down, apparently not satisfied with just saying it. "If you do catch kamai, I could try to get rid of it. So, do you know why the pyromania and all the other things happen?" Flora has completely forgotten about her lunch, because that is terrible.

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"I'm really not sure I want your help on that. Might want coins to deal with it myself."

"Will you promise to do that and only that on lie detection?" Flora asks.
She wishes: when it's on, it should color, in her vision only, people who lie - red, people who misdirect or imply - yellow, people who are telling the truth can be green, and anything else can be blue.
"Full sentences please, ready to go," she says.

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"Uh, I'm not making any promises with this little information about the situation. I only might want coins to fix it with, anyway. For all I know they have some kind of horrible side effect."

"They do what they're told, not what you meant, and they try to backfire but you can fix that part if you remember to do it every time," Leekath says.

"I will give you a fixed one," says Flora. "It's entirely possible to make a very comprehensive wish, but only if you think of everything."

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