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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]

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

[shesepankh]

Bella laughs.

[castmyown]

Darren does, too.

[morethanimaginary]

Savannah desperately wishes they would kiss. Maybe not now, with their dads in the car, but eventually.

[shesepankh]

Bella cannot read her mind, so how is she to know that this is Savannah's wish? She is not to know, apparently.

"Okay, this seems to be the end of smalltalk, gimme a rune." She's been casually making little notes in her notebook all the while - this is just how Bella has conversations she cares at all about - but now she has it propped up and flipped to a clean page.

[castmyown]

Darren snickers, and gives her a rune.

[morethanimaginary]

"Augh," says Savannah. Then she flops over and tries to sleep because magic makes her head hurt.

[shesepankh]

Bella does her best to keep the runey conversation down to a reasonable volume.

She will not complain a bit if the entire remainder of the trip is taken up with runes.

[castmyown]

Darren's not likely to complain, either. Runes are lots of fun and he enjoys talking about them! Bella's rune dictionary is doing well, they're making good progress on magic.

[morethanimaginary]

Savannah naps, but she is generally annoyed with them doing nothing but throwing runes at each other. "Auugh," she says, two hours in. "Okay - vetoing, we will talk about something other than runes for the fifty bajillionth time."

[shesepankh]

"What do you want to talk about, Savannah?" inquires Bella serenely.

[morethanimaginary]

"... No idea! But something else."

[shesepankh]

"You don't have any ideas and you don't like our idea. Whatever are we to do?" Pause, then she relents. "Tell me about the Avalon's tourist attractions or whatever."

[morethanimaginary]

"Um. We've never been there. Dad! Help!"

[steppingup]

Vernon snorts. "Well, there's a lovely cafe."

[shesepankh]

"Yeah, what do they have? I'm gonna be hungry by the time we're there."

[steppingup]

"Good coffee, and some delicious pastries, but I didn't get much proper food wise when I was there. There are a few restaurants for that. One of them is a nice Italian place, I went there, it was nice."

[shesepankh]

"Just how big is this place?"

[steppingup]

"Pretty big. Basically, consider it a town all of its own. A very insular town. With critters of all kinds."

[shesepankh]

"Cool. Is it customary to go around in midform or anything?"

[steppingup]

"A lot of them go around in midform, fullform's a bit rarer because thumbs are fantastic, but there are people without medallions. Going in human form also happens and no one will care if you do, though they might get curious about what you are."

[shesepankh]

"I think I'll put on - wings and tail and hindpaws, but not the rest of my legs, bipedal digitigrade walking is hard," decides Bella. "What do you peryton types do?"

[morethanimaginary]

"I am a pretty peryton, so I will be bipedal and have thumbs and fingers but otherwise look like a magic flying deer."

[castmyown]

"Antlers, wings, maybe the hooves for my feet," shrugs Darren.

[shesepankh]

"Come to think of it," says Bella, "it's odd that I didn't have more trouble that I did continuing to register Darren as Darren when I saw the definitely-not-a-human-face. Like, the rest of it, sure, but the face I'm surprised I wasn't more confused."