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"Isn't there stuff that would help no matter what?"

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"Should I be presuming we still have to fight the Endbringers?"

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"I don't know. Teach Dragon the glass reinforcing spell?"

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"Sure, I can do that. I think you could build on that to get the invulnerability thing I want but the glass one's so hacky I might actually just start from scratch."

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"It's still good for glass."

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"It's - the enchantment equivalent of a microwave."

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"It has a potato setting and can't detect potatoes?"

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"It does all the things it strictly needs to do but is viscerally kludgy and ugly and every time I interact with it I am tempted to spend an exorbitant amount of time ripping it apart to do better."

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"My microwave problem is the potato setting thing."

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"Then why not just buy a microwave without a potato setting?"

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"That's just an example. Microwaves can be set in various ways and don't know how to choose between them on their own. Some simple toasters are okay, microwaves basically never."

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"You're adorable."

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Hmm.

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"I've been warned that my wheelchair when it arrives will need to have a mind of its own."

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"I can hook it into Rete if you don't want to go around rotaries nine times."

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"It might cease to be as funny."

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"Rete is very well behaved and has no inordinate fondness for rotaries."

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"Then I would be delighted to have a Rete-operated wheelchair."

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"And you shall."

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It comes a few days later! It is way more convenient than trying to temporarily change the pain med balance so he can tolerably walk a few steps. 

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Lorica has at it. She can do a coat of paint, too, and swap out the soft bits with upholstery; it's not very pretty.

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He appreciates it.

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"You don't think it needs rhinestones? Glitter? A reproduction of 'Starry Night'?"

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"I could enchant it to glow dramatically but I think there might have been other things we planned to use our time for!"

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