Third Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

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It had definitely been an... interesting couple of days for Firekeeper since her rather unexpected arrival. Much of Sunday and Monday had been spent exploring and hunting (they'd avoided the strangely-colored deer, however), and of course sleeping, because as the old wolf proverb went: "hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns."

Now, though, Firekeeper and Blind Seer were lounging on the couch in the large room that seemed to belong to no one in particular, staring at the big black box that was apparently the centerpiece of the room and wondering at its purpose.

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"Oh? I don't suppose you're from Xanth?" Dor asked hopefully.

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"Am not knowing this place," Firekeeper admitted. "I was from Iron Mountains, near human land of Hawk Haven."

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"Oh well, then I'm in the same boat," Dor replied as he took a seat in a chair. "I'm not familiar with this place either."

"You're not in a boat. You're on me," the chair protested.

"I wasn't talking literally," Dor replied.

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"Boats," Firekeeper made a face. "Is not a thing of my liking. Was your coming here on purpose, or accident like me?"

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"On purpose," Dor replied. "I was sent here to broaden my education and learn more about Mundania. Um... Or at least that's what we call the world outside ours. Worlds without magic."

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"I never knowed there was more than one world until I was here," Firekeeper admitted. "There was only one world, though humans give different parts of land different names."

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"Well I just thought everything outside of Xanth was Mundania myself," Dor admitted. "So I'm still figuring out that part myself."

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"I not think we have this Mundania where I am from," Firekeeper said thoughtfully. "True, not liking magic much... but there are small talents, like I say."

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"Really?" Dor asked. "Like what?"

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"I have friend, he have much longer name but most just call him Doc, can speed healing. And Holly Gardner, she work for King Tedric, making plants grow much better." Firekeeper shrugged after what was, for her, a long speech. "Is small things, but helpful, so people is overlooking such."

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"My-"

Dor paused for a moment just to consider how he should classify Irene, "-friend, Irene, has a similar talent. She has a green thumb and can make plants grow from a seed to full size rather quickly. Are talents a rare thing then?"

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"Is so," Firekeeper nodded.

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"That's different from where I'm from," Dor replied. "Everyone has a magical talent though it varies to a degree. It's usually a rare person who doesn't have a talent."

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"Long before I am born, there are many with magic. Then, Fire Plague come and many die or run away. Then is only small talents left," Firekeeper explained.

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Dor frowned a little at that. "Fire plague? What was that?"

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Firekeeper frowned, because she didn't know exactly, just what she'd learned since coming to live with humans.

"Is sickness that spread across New World some hundred turning of seasons ago. Sorcerer Ones is afraid of dying, so they runned, leaving those without magic to pick up pieces and lead human packs." She clearly did not have a high opinion of those people.

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Dor leaned back in his chair frowning a bit at that.

"Wow!" a pillow exclaimed. "Magic people suck!"

Dor glared at the pillow though he agreed with the sentiment. "Where did those Sorcerer Ones go?"

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"Not knowing," Firekeeper shrugged. "Maybe they make it back to Old World, maybe they is dying on boats. No one hear from them either way."

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"Are people still dying as a result of the disease?" Dor asked. "Or is it under control now?"

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"No, not since those hundred turning of seasons as far as the character knows anyway," Firekeeper replied, having only the vaguest idea how long a "hundred" was supposed to be anyway.