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Bella is catching up on emails. It amuses her to agree to play the role of royalty at this random Renaissance faire that had the audacity to ask her if she'd be so kind to guest-star for a day, so she's telling them she'll do it presuming no emergencies come up and they don't give her excessively absurd lines to say.
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She grins, and ushers him into a cute shop full of pewter things.
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They continue to browse things, until Bella has to go knight some children - Ripper is not part of this ceremony, but is welcome to supervise.
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It is quite adorable! A few of the savvier children want wishes as well as knighthoods. Bella provides, where the requests are within reasonable bounds and she doesn't get frantic headshaking from the parents.
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She is! She is his magic girlfriend! Presently the knighting ceremony is concluded and his magic girlfriend is hand-in-hand with him again as they look at a shopful of cunning wooden objects.
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That's one of the best reasons.
There are more cunning little shops, and a stunningly bawdy comedy show, and a juggler who invites Bella onstage - she does a quick pentagoning and acquits herself much better than the juggler was expecting. There is another knighting ceremony, better-attended than the earlier one. There is chocolate-dipped cheesecake on a stick. And then their majesties are invited to preside over the joust. Bella has lines, for this; there's a bit of plot, with a wicked foreign knight challenging the local knights who were just having a friendly competition, and she got the script ahead of time and delivers it with appropriate vim. Ripper doesn't have to say anything, although he would do well to look appropriately approving or horrified at the correct points during the sequence of events.
There are more cunning little shops, and a stunningly bawdy comedy show, and a juggler who invites Bella onstage - she does a quick pentagoning and acquits herself much better than the juggler was expecting. There is another knighting ceremony, better-attended than the earlier one. There is chocolate-dipped cheesecake on a stick. And then their majesties are invited to preside over the joust. Bella has lines, for this; there's a bit of plot, with a wicked foreign knight challenging the local knights who were just having a friendly competition, and she got the script ahead of time and delivers it with appropriate vim. Ripper doesn't have to say anything, although he would do well to look appropriately approving or horrified at the correct points during the sequence of events.
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Eventually the good knights of Underspecified Medieval Country Of Which They Are Queens defeat the intruder. There is falconing and more jousty-type stuff, Bella bids everyone a ceremonious goodbye and enjoins them to have fun at the remainder of the faire, and the queenly duties are officially discharged for the day.
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They can!
They do.
The Celtic metal band is thrilled to see them again.
They do.
The Celtic metal band is thrilled to see them again.
Ripper is invited to sing here, too! (It's the same set, with two songs changed, but they're still doing Danny Boy.)
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He cheerfully accepts the invitation, and does an even better job this time around.
He is roundly applauded, hugged by the band's singer, and then on they go.
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Hug! Aww, hug. This guy is adorable.
Back he goes to sit with his empress and hold her hand and enjoy the music.
Back he goes to sit with his empress and hold her hand and enjoy the music.
It is highly enjoyable music.
Eventually it comes to an end.
Eventually it comes to an end.
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Why indeed?
(She tastes like the chocolate-covered cheesecake that they previously ate on sticks.)
(She tastes like the chocolate-covered cheesecake that they previously ate on sticks.)