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"...Noregr?" she says helplessly. "I, um, a lot of artifacts landed on me, I don't even know how many. Several."
"I mean, down is the middle here too, but it's a big flat square and all the - things - are on the side where we currently aren't. Plants, dwellings, weather."
"...okay." Swallow. "Um, an artifact is a magical object each of which confers when touched one benefit and one drawback. A lot of them fell on me. I'm not sure how many. Too many. At least I don't seem to be dying."
"Objects with the described properties are not a thing I've previously heard of. We have different kinds of magic than that."
"Yes. It is. There are - at least - five. Probably more. It'd be a coincidence if all of them had drawbacks I could notice right away."
"One of the artifact effects I have noticed appears to have made me fall in love with the first person I saw it's really weird I'm sorry."
"It's a concerning thing. Is there anything I should be concerned about besides the part where I am subject to a mind-altering effect."
"Mostly that and - its logical consequences - like, normally the first thing I'd look into if I found someone from another world stranded on the bottom of this one would be getting them home, but this seems like it might complicate that..."
"I mean it doesn't - confer an obligation or anything - is there actually a way to do that -"