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"If instead something bad happens, I'll teleport us away, so you want to be holding onto my hand."

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Nod. 

And once they're ready to go he will do that. 

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She dresses him like she'd dress her own child, in Cheliax; they're going to look foreign and it's easier to do disguises when you know the look you have in mind very well. 

 

She heads back into the nice part of town, holding his hand, trying to look impatient but not at all out of her depth.

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They get fewer odd or concerned looks, this time, though some people's eyes do follow them curiously. After following the cobbled road past all the nicer houses, they come out to a row of higher-end shops; a few even have actual glass windows, with displays, clothing and gowns and shoes. Nice copper pots and pans. Weapons. There's an apothecary with fragrant herbs hanging from the lintel.

The street barely smells at all; a servant is busy scooping up the dung just dropped by someone's horse. 

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She stops at the weapons shop. "Do you sell magic weapons here?"

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That gets her such a blank look! "No, ma'am?" 

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This is not very surprising. She sighs anyway, a bit exaggeratedly. "I guess there's probably not much market, here... hmm, this is very good work." It is just all right.

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It gets her a rote smile and an offer to come in and see the rest of the wares that aren't for display to 'just anyone'. 

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She'd love to, but maybe later, she just arrived here and needs to arrange lodging for the night first, do they recommend anywhere?

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They can recommend her the nicest inn in town! Down that way, it's called the Pig's Ear. 

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And is there a healer they'd recommend, she's been having these bouts of dizziness.

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They seem a bit confused by the term 'healer', but would recommend Lady Bet at the apothecary, she's knowledgeable. 

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She thanks them and heads out. 

 

"Were you reading their mind?" she asks Ma'ar quietly once they've gone down the street. 

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"- Maybe a bit." 

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"Did they notice anything that seemed suspicious or implausible?"

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"They were confused. About your questions. But they thought you looked very fancy so maybe you were educated." 

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"What confused them?"

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"The magic weapons. They hadn't heard of that. And - when you asked about a healer they were confused and wondered if you meant...I don't know the word..." he gestures vaguely in the air, "an old woman from the country who delivers babies and has herbs in jars but hasn't studied anything? And then they thought you couldn't mean that, because you were dressed nice, you must've meant a doctor with an education." 

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"Do they not know of - magic healers, with a Gift for it -"

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"I don't know! Didn't seem to be what they were thinking of. Is that a different kind of magic from my kind too?" 

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"Yeah, there's a bunch of Gifts. Mage-gift is the most flexible, and then your Thoughtsensing is different, and there's Healing and Mindhealing and Empathy and Bardic and Fetching and Farseeing and Animal Mindspeech and Firestarting. At least that's the classification system the people I know used and I think they were pretty knowledgeable about your world's magic. I guess maybe in this...place they don't know that yet. Healers need specialized training to be useful...I guess I could go to an old woman from the countryside who does herbs. She'd at least know if I was pregnant."

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He is suddenly giving her such an upset look! "Are you maybe pregnant?" 

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Oh no tiny child has trauma around that specific thing. "It is a possible explanation for why I have been feeling sick. If it's not safe to have a baby in this world, though, I will Polymorph myself into a boy, and that would make me not be pregnant." She doesn't want to do that, really, but she can't abandon tiny baby Leareth and also she can't possibly convince him that's her prioritization here - "I plan to live forever. I am not going to take any chances with my safety."

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"What, you can turn yourself into a boy?" He's thoroughly distracted, staring at her. "Would you be stuck a boy forever then, or could you do it back?" 

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"I would turn back in a couple of minutes. But I would not be pregnant when I turned back. That is what spellcasters where I'm from do so they only carry a baby when they want to."

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