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Boogey Nausicaa imagines herself a hero
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"All right." She takes his hand.

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And everything's perfect, the air is delightful, the clouds are funny, nothing can ever be wrong -

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Wowww, that's a rush. She pulls out her gem and admires it sparkling blue in the sun.

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He raises an eyebrow. "That gem's related to your emotions, isn't it?" he asks, voice curious.

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"You might think of it as a sort of meter!"

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"Convenient. Most people need to guess," he says, dismissing it as a magical mood ring.

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"Very useful, yes." She tucks her gem away again. "So that worked. You mentioned something about artifacts?"

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"Ah, yeah. Magical items. They do a lot of different things, are usually made by mages but some we don't know the origin of. We try to track them down, keep people from using them irresponsibly, so there's a lot of paperwork in getting one pulled out." He shrugs.

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"If there's one that does the same sort of thing you do, that might be more convenient than meeting up every day or two. I could help with the paperwork."

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"Bosses might want to wait until they know you're not evil? Which mostly just means hanging around for a while being conspicuously non-evil, we can't really run magic background checks."

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"Fair enough. Is there an easy way for me to contact you?"

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"Yeah. Got a cellphone." He rattles off a number.

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Right, she'll need to get a phone of her own.

"Do you have a day job or are you generally pretty free?"

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"My day job's looking out for magic. We vary a lot between too busy to think and waiting to be too busy to think, so texting's probably best?"

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"Okay! Thank you for your help!"

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"You're welcome! Easiest favor I've ever done someone, really."

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"That's good. I'd feel guilty about asking you to keep doing it otherwise."

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He shrugs. "I don't mind helping people. And I'll bug requisitions about an emotion artifact."

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"I really appreciate it, thank you."

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"Ah. No problem. Though if there's nothing else I probably should get back to work..."

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"I won't take up any more of your time. Bye!"

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"Bye!" And he's off.

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Okay. Cool. That went well. Is the Nanny still around?

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Yes, and she heads over when she notices them parting. "Everything alright?" she asks.

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"It worked! Really well, actually. He's going to look into getting an artifact that can do something but wasn't optimistic about the bureaucracy. And he gave me his phone number so I can get in touch. Is there a place to get a cheap phone nearby?"

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