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Spell: Following
You can make people first-level clerics of you.
To learn this spell, take the hand of someone eligible to be your cleric. Say, goloptywimple. Give them a valuable gift.
Spell: Resistance
You have some ability to ignore magical effects directed at you.
To learn this spell, cast another spell on yourself. As you do so, say, Jempi. Katsafgha.
Spell: Hold Person
You can cast the spell Hold Person at will.
To learn this spell, touch someone. Say, Enefti. Freb.
She attempts to summon the two members of the work crew who are close biological relatives of Imrainai, without asking who those are.
This does work.
Okay, good, so her per-trip limit is somewhere between two and a couple hundred. At least it works at all.
She gets tackle-hugged by her niece and normal hugged by her nephew.
"Missed you so much," she murmurs at them, and hugs them back.
No.
Ugh, she doesn't want to have to ask for identifying information every time. Two random members?
No.
Darn.
Well, she can summon the leader, anyway, and then let Imrainai talk to her while she gets identifying information from the kids. Or hands them off to Verita for exposition, she kind of doesn't want to do more exposition herself.
She attempts to summon Imrainai's work crew leader.
That one works.
So a woman appears. She frowns, looks around, sees Imrainai and the kids, and then keeps looking around.
"I asked for you to be brought here. It's - I wanted to talk to you about things."
"Yeah. He gave me the power to make anyone do anything I wanted. I haven't used it except for tests, but it does work."
"That's good, I guess.
"Vakaran ordered almost all the fertile women on the ship impregnated without notice. Obviously not all of them took, but the rate's high enough that we're going to be swimming in babies in about seven or eight months. He didn't run it by anyone else, I don't think any of the Tellari knew."
"It did. I took a test, I'm pregnant. That's - part of what I wanted to talk to you about, whether there's anyone obvious I should probably marry."
"Unfortunately not. The ship's more women than men, and and the women skew young. People pretty much paired off until we ran out of fathers."
"It's not clear. We're theoretically on speaking terms, but we're not doing a whole lot of speaking. Festri's livid about the whole thing, obviously. Anyway, we have bigger problems. Problems that I understand will probably involve contacting a lot of other Liars in less dire circumstances than we were. We'll find you someone before the baby comes. Gonna need one, given how much you've got on your plate right now."
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