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I practiced a lot of magic music.

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"I love my pillow, by the way, it's so terrifically cozy."

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I'm so glad.

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"Are there a lot of things like that under the sea? I wonder that we never find them washed up on the beach..."

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It happens much more that we make heat and light attached to a solid place or a person than what I have been doing up here.

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"To a person!"

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Only light, not heat.  And mostly only to magic people who can put them out when they want.

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"I guess that might be convenient," allows the queen dubiously.

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Sea people use arms to swim, so it is more good to not have a thing that needs to be held.  And it is more hard to attach something to a person in the water because it's more thick there than up on land, and if one drops it there is more far to fall.

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"Does it not also fall slower?"

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Yes, but I was fast sometimes and would have to go back for it, and if I didn't notice then it could be anywhere in so far back.

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"Makes sense. We drop things sometimes but perhaps it's even worse in the sea."

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Nod nod.

Your majesty, is there a thing you can guess I can make with magic, which you want?

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"Well, I don't guess very well even about what my own son can do with magic, so I'll be pretty far wrong about yours, I imagine, but - cornucopias? Magical horses that travel a league with every step? Wings that allow the bearer to fly?"

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I can try, your majesty.

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"Gracious, I was expecting it to be flat out impossible."

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I don't know that any of them will work, and some of them may have to wait for my voice to be fixed somehow if they do, but I have much joy and hope for the combination of my magic and human magic and human creativity.

(Creativity is a really great word; she likes it a lot.)

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"It's so curious that we've had no previous inkling that there were people under the sea, and so close too."

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The sea people are not always in one spot.  Some of my sisters grew up in warm waters.  And they stay very deep now.

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"The whole kingdom moves?"

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Nod.

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"Why? How? - I mean I assume you, like, swim. But are there no permanent installations that would be hard to move - you mentioned stationary heat magic -"

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Sea people have no buildings.  Heat and light can be told to attach to a person instead, at a distance, and move with them until a person sings them to stay in a new spot.  I had a collection of many human things which I could not have moved easily, but we have never moved like that while I am alive and I was not supposed to have them.

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"And there aren't sea-people-made things? I realize there's a lot of limitations on what you can make underwater but you could - carve whalebones into spears. Make coral jewelry. Even without needing shelter from weather don't you want to keep animals away from you when you're sleeping? Have privacy?"

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Some sea people have spears.  (Some are things and some are just magic.)  They tie their hair back, there, and put things in it to be beautiful.  Only my father has one kind of decoration I don't know the word for,  and he has it on all the time.  Wanting shelter is why they're deep now.  There are some things, just not enough not to carry.

And not all sea people moved.  Some stayed and were ruled by someone low in my family, and the new place had been ruled by someone low in my family and then had us near.  I think other sea people carried some of our things but I was not alive yet.

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