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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?
campanas
pleasantsurprise
"I am! These two rescued me and Tony from the Cave of Unpleasant Surprises a few years back, now I am just sort of around!"
pleasantsurprise
"Then I asked Bella out to dinner but she is gay! And then Tony hit on me. And now I am - sort of around! I give the littler princesses magic lessons periodically when Bella is too neck-deep in politics or they're curious about something more my specialties than hers."
she_sells_seashells
"No! You're the only one. I'm straight-with-a-special-circumstances exception. Cam is bi. Amariah says 'daemons don't count'. Otherwise across-the-board straight."
thaumobabble
"Kanim was at one time asked to be our Tony's backup husband option in case I didn't successfully manage the obvious succession issue," says Bella.
pleasantsurprise
"Yes, and then I ran screaming from the room, let's not forget how I ran screaming from the room."
pleasantsurprise
"Because if I'd bolted without explanation the queen might've taken offense?" suggests Kanim. "She scares me sometimes."
she_sells_seashells
"...Queen. The queen? There's a queen and you're not her?" Shell Bell asks Bella.
thaumobabble
"No-o-o? I wind up doing a reasonable fraction of her job, but she's, you know, still alive."
ferratus
"In the way where our parents are usually dead by the time we're thirteen or so," says Tony. "And usually not royalty of any kind."