Thanjen in Imbria
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"Oh, that's a fascinating word! Is that kind of connection with matter outside your body a common thing where you're from?"

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"Anyone old enough to be able to, does. You only have your puramem?"

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"I'm not sure... elf-kin like me have bodies in the sense you mean, but fae like Skytouch don't," she gestures at the small winged woman, "they're not biological in the same way. And I don't know if anyone 'has' things in the way you mean; I can tell there's a connotation that's not quite translating."

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"You seem to be getting more out of my words — if I say that I'm getting the idea that no one here lankored anything at all, does that sound right?"

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"Yes!" she says. "I'm a linguist, I analyze everything."

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"That sounds really inconvenient and dangerous. I mean, not the being a linguist part —"

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Lirieth giggles.

"Not being able to lankored things?" Her pronunciation is pretty good. "Well, what are the safety and convenience advantages?"
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"Uh — like, you could get injured even if you have warning, and you would have to have a lot of tools to do things, and I don't even know how you would travel —

"I suppose if teleportation is a thing, for the travel, anyway, assuming you have more reliable versions."
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"Yes, we can get injured regardless of how much warning we have, although there are spells that protect against injury. I'm not sure what you mean by tools but I think that's right too. We travel in various ways! Reliable teleportation isn't one of them, unfortunately."

"Roads," the fae contributes.

"Skytouch is from the Forest and they're very proud of their roads there," says Lirieth.
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"Roads, yes, but what rides on them?"

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"People! People ride on them! The road network is a huge living spell maintained collectively by the fae, and it lets you walk or run from almost anywhere in the Forest to almost anywhere else in the Forest very fast and very safely," Skytouch explains.

"In other places without as many fae, we have to make do using wheeled carts pulled by spells or artifacts or animals," says Lirieth.
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"Oh, that makes sense. For us a road isn't a spell, it is just a long flat surface that is good for wheels to roll on."

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"That's what roads are outside the Forest," Lirieth agrees.

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"So, what now? I wanted to leave the building to see if this was some far part of the world I knew, but I'm pretty sure it isn't. I assume you don't recognize this." He shapes a globe (unlabeled).
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Lirieth peers confusedly at the globe.

"...Is that a... map?"
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"—yes? It's a globe?

"You're going to tell me another impossible thing, aren't you."
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"I don't think our world is shaped like that," she says.

"Can't be," says Skytouch, squinting at the globe. "I've flown high enough to notice if it was."
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"What is it shaped like, then?"

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"There's just the continent laid out all flat and then a bunch of ocean around it," shrugs Skytouch. "Ocean as far as the eye can see."

"Every so often someone talks about trying to find the edge, but we don't have good enough oceangoing vehicles yet," says Lirieth. "We do know that if you go out really far you can't see the sun or moon or Manafall anymore except as a sort of vague glow on the horizon. All the previous expeditions either came back around that point or didn't come back at all."
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"I wonder if I could help look further. Sounds like a bit too adventurous even for me, though."

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"I'm not nearly adventurous enough to go near something like that," says Lirieth. "Although at least it's less terrifying than the people trying to find out what's under the ocean."

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"Yeah, no.


"Anyway, what do I do now?"
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"Well, this being the City of Light, there actually is a system in place for supporting people affected by magical accidents," says Lirieth. "You're probably the first person accidentally stranded here from another world, but your needs should still be mostly covered..."

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“I suspect I need less and more than the average person here. Will it cover getting me home?”

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"I'm not sure if that's strictly covered under the accident relief system but I'm completely sure that we'll be able to find someone willing to work on it anyway," says Lirieth.

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