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Then presently she will have explained computers such that neither she nor Page can think of ways for this to go wrong if someone just conjures up a machine to this spec!

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After which he thanks her and abandons her to the small horde of people waiting to ask for a demo of vocal speech, ask repetitive questions about Mars that she's already answered, ask her to take a side in their ship war, offer her a restaurant coupon in the hope that she'll write a review later, try to sell her a map, and ask her if she knows the ending to a popular comic series one of the initial refugees summarized the beginning of very engagingly.

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Gosh. She will sing them a song and read them a poem. She has no opinion on their ship war. She will accept the restaurant coupon. If they give her a summary of the comic series's beginning Page will see if it knows the rest.

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The song and poem get a little applause, the song more so than the poem. The comic starts with alien humanoids fleeing persecution and being betrayed by their ostensible saviors; it might be Elfquest, if someone took some liberties in translating it to a new language and medium.

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She will try guessing some plot points suiting Elfquest, and if those match she will sign through the rest of the plot.

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"That's pretty awesome. Not as good as the fanfic version, though."

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"Sorry to disappoint!"

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"I'm not disappointed, it's awesome! You should totally read the fan version, though, it's called Landing in the Deeper Shadow."

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"Maybe I will when it's been translated!"

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"You should! And if you like it, I have other recs, too!"

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"Usually I don't read a lot of books, I do more, like, theater stuff. Theater with swords."

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"Oh, theater's cool, too. They're running some old classics at the college this season if you're into that but I don't really have recs."

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"That's okay. I do more acting than spectating anyway."

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"Neat! What kinds of plays do you do in your world?"

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"The kind I do is called combat dance! I do semi-scripted fights with a little story attached."

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"Oh, neat! We have stage combat here but it's usually more of a story with a little fighting attached. I think. I'm not enough of a theater buff to be absolutely sure I'd know if we had your thing."

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"It's a whole spectrum, back home. Do you want to see me do an exhibition drill?"

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"Yeah!"

They and what remains of the rest of the crowd all back up a bit.

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Then she can pull out her swords and do some very flashy flips and spins and high kicks and stabbings and slashings to imaginary enemies!

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This draws substantially more applause than the song, and more of a crowd than she already had.

"Oh," someone says, looking a bit more somber than the rest of the onlookers, "so that's how swords work."

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She sheathes it. "Yes? How else would they work?"

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Shrug. "I didn't have a mental picture. I guess if I'd tried to picture it I'd've pictured something more like dicing squidfruit. Or deboning fish."

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"Well, there are different kinds of swords but usually I don't have to dice my opponents like fruit."

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"That... makes sense."

Other than that she gets several compliments but they're about out of things to insist on drawing her attention to.

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She can sing some more! And then she wants to be directed to tourist attractions.

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