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Magic without a magic
Steel wakes up. This is not where she went to sleep. She has a peek at the stream -
- And lets out a surprised yelp at the nonsensical cacophony.
"What in the blue hells is this place?" No answer is immediately apparent, so she climbs to the top of the ravine, carefully avoiding the various inexplicable things in the area. The snake-goat hybrid was particularly grotesque.
The top of the ravine has a road. She tries to fly, but can't. Again, very strange. This is a pretty nice road, physically, but magically it's completely undeveloped. She walks towards the city, peeking at the stream once in a while only to see fog, and seeking an explanation.
- And lets out a surprised yelp at the nonsensical cacophony.
"What in the blue hells is this place?" No answer is immediately apparent, so she climbs to the top of the ravine, carefully avoiding the various inexplicable things in the area. The snake-goat hybrid was particularly grotesque.
The top of the ravine has a road. She tries to fly, but can't. Again, very strange. This is a pretty nice road, physically, but magically it's completely undeveloped. She walks towards the city, peeking at the stream once in a while only to see fog, and seeking an explanation.
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She starts by explaining that the entire world is made up of extremely tiny indivisible particles of stuff, arranged and connected exceedingly complex ways. Sugar, for example, is made pieces of one thing and another and a third all arranged in a ring. Living things are some of the most complicated of all, and they're not fully understood by a long shot.
These explanations could take a while.
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She readily admits that her memories are not all that clear, that she studied her magic first of all and the physical world second, but her knowledge is enough to be getting on with. Soon, though, it's bedtime.
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And she goes upstairs and pays this month's rent on the storefront and goes to four greengrocers and tells them she'll pay for live rodents and (still avoiding that one guy) asks a couple of surgeons if they've heard of aspirin and if so might they like something stronger for their patients?
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To the surgeon she says, "The drug is called morphine. It's extremely effective at dulling pain and it brings a sense of euphoria, but it can be addictive and repeated use is hard on the body, so I'm recommending to only administer it for serious surgeries, not for daily pain like aspirin."
"I make it with embroidered memories, just like aspirin and the other medicines I sell, and they all work as expected. But still, I'll give you the first dose for free and compensate the recipient for testing an experimental drug. How often do you do surgeries?"
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"I have more warnings, though, might as well give you the full list now. It shouldn't be given to anyone who is pregnant because it can hurt the baby, whoever takes morphine should not drink alcohol for at least six hours, and it can cause breathing trouble sometimes so people with weak lungs can't have it."
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So she goes to the shop and runs the numbers on the ingredient cost and processing time to decide morphine's price, and then comes back to the surgeon's place with a jar of little dark blue pills and waits for someone to want surgery.
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