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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.

Comments

[shesepankh]

"Maybe that's all. Or it's a matter of me being a critter. I'd ask Dad but Dad's only seen me in fullform, not you, and my face is about the same except I get sort of fangy."

[castmyown]

"I can always show him when we're in the Avalon. Savannah can too, since you haven't seen her in fullform yet."

[shesepankh]

"I haven't!" agrees Bella. "Rumor has it she's a pretty peryton."

[morethanimaginary]

"I am!" declares Savannah, without a trace of modesty. "I am so pretty, you have no idea."

[castmyown]

Darren laughs. "She probably has some idea now, you realize. Since you've said as much."

[shesepankh]

"Yes, you've set my expectations very high. What if you're pretty but just not that pretty, what then?"

[morethanimaginary]

"Then you're wrong. That's it, no take backs, you are just wrong."

[shesepankh]

"This sounds like a matter of opinion, to me."

[morethanimaginary]

"Nope. It's a fact. Objective truth."

[shesepankh]

"Says you and what controlled empirical study, huh?"

[morethanimaginary]

"The... One I made up. Just now."

[shesepankh]

"That doesn't sound very controlled or empirical."

[morethanimaginary]

"It is definitely both of those things. It's controlled by me, and I declare it logical, too. There, done."

[castmyown]

Darren bursts out laughing. "That's not how science works."

[shesepankh]

"And that's not what empirical means!"

[morethanimaginary]

"Details. Petty details, I am right regardless."

[castmyown]

"That's not how being right works, either. Everything you're saying is wrong!"

[shesepankh]

"Woefully, tragically, and completely incorrect. We might have to talk about runes to punish you."

[morethanimaginary]

"I have done nothing to deserve this mutiny! As your empress of prettiness I declare you both traitors!"

[castmyown]

"I didn't even do anything!"

[morethanimaginary]

"If she wanted you to explain more runes would you do it?"

[castmyown]

"... Yes."

[morethanimaginary]

"Yeah. That's why. You're a traitor, too."

[shesepankh]

"Well, we've already been declared traitors, might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, gimme a rune."

[castmyown]

Darren gives her a rune.