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Karen was still a little nervous around Kang, and quiet, even after spending a couple of days with him, and he couldn't really blame her. At least she wasn't terrified of him anymore, and she wasn't all that difficult to watch over. He'd even managed to find a few things to help keep her entertained in Possessions (the Fairplay memories were definitely coming in handy in this case; he wouldn't have known what type of things human children typically liked to do otherwise).

He had duties at the tavern, though, and decided to bring her along with him. She'd offered to help him out, but there really wasn't anything a child as young as her could do, so he'd handed her some paper and crayons and set her up at a table next to the bar, asking her to draw some pictures for the tavern. That way, she was occupied and out of the way, and still felt that she was doing something to help.

He made sure to keep an eye on her as he went about his usual business, checking up on her every now and then to make sure she wasn't bored.

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"Huh, no one I know needed to memorize spells either. My kind just sort of knows the things the spirits can teach us, but we have to convince them to teach them. The will-workers and the mummy I knew were sort of the same, but they both had a better range of magic than my kind usually gets."

"That's just how magic works on Krynn. There's clerical magic, too, but once the gods left, that didn't work anymore," Kang said dryly. He wasn't all that fond of the gods.

"Huh, guess magic is different from place to place. I guess, in a way, everyone who could use our kind of magic was a priest of Gaia and her spirits. Don't know if our magic is anything like your clerics' though."

Kang grinned, "There's quite a few people here from worlds where magic doesn't even exist. It's always fun to see their faces when they see it for the first time, and realize it's real."

"I bet. A lot of people from my world don't know it exists, so some of them may be like that. All of the people who could use it had to keep it secret in some fashion. The will-workers we knew... some of them kind of disguised it behind new-agey stuff... crystals and meditation for healing and stuff. A couple of them we knew pretended it was all computer tricks. The garou... our kind of werewolves, just had to keep it hidden from most people. Getting found out for what we were was a death sentence."