Wouldn't that be a riot? [Please, Ryan's talking to a kid with a natural eye color of purple and can levitate without being possessed by a ghost.] Ah, so they operate on a rewards system? Interesting. I would presume that it's to both encourage their shardbearers as well as subtly let them know that their actions don't go unnoticed.
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Yup. They call them boons...usually one a month the fairies come to us and take down our requests, go back to the monarchs and there you go Instant presents. It's sort of like that whole idea of the carrot and the horse or whatever but it doesn't always work. Some people are smarter than that.
[He's not. But he's also not stupid enough to ignore the hand-outs just yet.]
A good way to get something better, then. I would imagine that some would get all that they need, then cut and run. I'm also going to guess that there are limits to what they can give you.
Yes, and yes. You can't ask for people for one thing. Trust me, I tried. [Which is still kind of stupid but whatever.] It's sorta like the three wishes a genie can't grant you but they're pretty reasonable depending on how much you give them first.
You're smarter than most people who show up. They bring new shardbearers in every couple of months? Then they hold the feasts and then they drop the bomb on you about the war.
How kind of you to say! But that makes sense. That gives us enough time to acclimate before they get in another batch. It also gives them two months to find those shardbearers.
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