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[shesepankh]

Saturday morning sees Bella with her notebooks about magic all in her knapsack, her medallion safety-pinned by its chain to her bra just in case she trips the wrong way, waiting with Charlie for pickup for the Avalon trip.

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[castmyown]

"Second thing. I'm not going to get better at lying, Bella. Savannah gets to say the part where you're a winged lion."

[shesepankh]

"And me, I can say it. I'm a winged lion. I think it was my mom's side of the family. Let's check my dad just in case. Nope? Must be my uncheckable mom. Winged lion."

[sundayfish]

"I don't much want to be checked. It's been sounding like I could be something besides a sphinx, if Renée was a sphinx, and then I'd have to wear the necklace all the time, and it sounds like one doozy of a hassle to me."

[castmyown]

"It's not so much of a hassle? It gets annoying sometimes, but I can fly now. I think it's worth it. But then again I am the guy who knew what was going on and made the conscious decision to embrace my critter side, so I suppose I'm biased."

[shesepankh]

"If the medallion breaks, or something," Bella says, "no, I can totally see his point. If he doesn't want to fly, and there's no guarantee he could."

[sundayfish]

"Perfectly content to stay on the ground."

[castmyown]

"Fair point. Wasn't questioning his choice, just - eh, I like flying and magic. If I and Savannah weren't critters I would have neither."

[shesepankh]

"If Ch- Dad wants to learn to magic he can do that without crittering, right?"

[castmyown]

"Yup. But I wouldn't have known that I could learn it without crittering. He's in a different situation than I was."

[shesepankh]

"There you go. He doesn't want the cosmetics or the flying or the secret handshake, all the other cool stuff he can get without."

[castmyown]

"Fair enough. Does he want to learn magic?"

[shesepankh]

"Not especially. If we get thoroughly checked and tested Xeroxed scrolls made he might take one or two for emergency situations."

[castmyown]

"Aha. Makes sense. I feel like when I start making scrolls I'm just going to make absurd amounts."

[shesepankh]

"We'll get a copier and take stacks of 'em to the Avalon every other weekend and warn people not to re-xerox them because there could be errors introduced by more layers of it."

[castmyown]

Darren snickers. "We'll have to see if copied scrolls will work. They might not, it could be like the native language thing and cause issues. If they do, though - magic is the best thing."

[shesepankh]

"If a copier doesn't work maybe we do woodcuts and a makeshift printing press?"

[castmyown]

"Yeah. Stencils, too. Runes might require being hand-drawn, stencils could make that a whole lot faster."

[shesepankh]

"Ooh, nice, it hadn't occurred to me that it might matter if you draw them."

[castmyown]

"Thanks! I need to test that, if it matters or not. It hadn't come up yet for me on my own, but since we need scrolls for self-defense, now - time to find out."

[shesepankh]

"A stencil could still be really fast, though, considering, and it would make it harder for someone else to figure out our secret and swipe our market share."

[castmyown]

"Bwuahahahaha. Economical takeover! With magic!"

It's basically his favorite thing ever.

[shesepankh]

"I think you mean 'economic'. Economical makes it sound like we're doing it with discount snacks from Costco."

[castmyown]

"That was the second stage of my plan," drawls Darren.

[shesepankh]

Bella laughs.

[castmyown]

Darren does, too.