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Bella very carefully checked just how firewitchy her firstborn was before letting her do anything with hot glass - healing spells or no healing spells, getting burned is reportedly not fun - but now Carinna's allowed to play with the gooey warm stuff as much as she likes, provided she is careful not to get it under her fingernails where it would be hard to get out again. It's better than clay. It glows pretty - Carinna isn't firewitchy enough to heat it up again if it cools, but she can stick it in the fireplace and then pull it back out again whenever she likes. She sits on the floor next to Bella in Bella's workshop. Bella's making lenses. Carinna's making - something.
She thinks it's a pretty something! She holds it in place, covered in fingerprints and glowing bright, till it holds its own shape, and then she gets up and carries it out the door and runs around looking for Grandma Marianne. Where's Grandma Marianne?
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Grandma Marianne is just leaving a meeting and on her way to the kitchens for a snack.
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"Grandma, Grandma! I made you this!" says Carinna, presenting her grandma with the this in question.
"What is it?" she asks, inspecting the this. Without taking it just yet.
"I can see that," says Grandma Marianne. "It's pretty."
"That is very sweet of you," says Grandma Marianne. "Let's find somewhere to put it."
So she leads her granddaughter on a tour of the castle, looking for a nice place to put the this.
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"It's still warm but it will be cooler soon and then it won't hurt stuff!"
"Yes it will," says Grandma Marianne. "Maybe by the time we find a place for it, it will be cool enough to put there!"
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Carinna nods vigorously. "Did you ever play with hot glass? I like it, it's goopy," she says. "I'm gonna make another thing after we find someplace for this thing."
"I have never played with hot glass," laughs the queen. "But I'm glad you're having fun."
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"Bella can't without gloves or tongs or whatever. Her glass stuff," says Carinna. "But I can!"
"That is because you're my granddaughter," says Marianne. "There's a little bit of fire-witch in our family."
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Carinna nods. "I know. I'm a little bit and Tony and Sherlock are a little bit more and you're a little bit more than that!"
"Exactly right," she says.
She smiles back.
Look! A shelf!
Look! A shelf!
"You know," says Marianne, inspecting the shelf, "I do believe it is."
Marianne waits.
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Eventually Carinna decides that the glass is probably cool enough to be okay on this shelf. She plunks it down.
The shelf does not catch fire! Marianne smiles approvingly.