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Marek Dąbrowski
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"Yes, I don't think I'd know.  I definitely wouldn't have thought of the blood-stealing thing..."

He tries to think by analogy to what else she was surprised by or seemed to expect.  "People taking photographs of you are also fine and harmless.  Hmm... there are legal limits to the power of everyone in the government - the president can't just tell random people what to do.  People working anywhere important aren't supposed to give the best jobs to their family and friends.  Are any of those useful?  It's not like the last two will come up for you, but to get a better idea of what things are like..."  He's not sure what sorts of laws would come up for her that she wouldn't think of.  She did seem like she knew that stabbing people was generally illegal.

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...Okay, but obviously most people are just going to do whatever the president tells them, and obviously if they don't listen he's not going to just be okay with that. But presumably he's saying otherwise for a reason, so... probably it's really important to pretend? The president wants everyone to act like they're just going along with them because they're a good person, or something, and not just because he's the president? She has no idea if that's right but if that's right it's probably not legal to just say it.

"...I don't know what a photograph is."

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"There's a device people can point at you that'll give them a very detailed picture of you, or whatever else they point it at.  It's not magic at all and doesn't do anything besides make a picture and sometimes a bright flash of light.  The picture is called a photograph, and the device is a camera."

He has an urge to add 'It really doesn't steal your soul or anything,' because he remembers hearing somewhere that people used to suspect it did, but this would really not help.

"And sometimes they take videos, which are moving pictures."  ... That just sounds ridiculous, when he's trying to inhabit her perspective.  If he was her he wouldn't believe himself about it not being magic either.  If he can manage to explain a photograph he can definitely explain a video, but first she'd have to be on board with the general concept of technology, and he's not sure that she is.

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It'd probably be possible to do something like that with illusion magic. She really has no idea how you'd do it without magic. What does it even mean to say that something like that isn't magic — well, it could mean that Detect Magic can't see it, except if magic is uncommon here it's not like they'd be able to cast it.

"...Can I see one?"

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"A video?  Mm, one of my neighbors has a television - that's a device for showing videos that were made by professional stations instead of recorded by a random person.  I'm sure we can visit and watch something in a few days.  I don't have anything that does them, myself."

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