"I don't know how you'd go about doing genetics-related artifact or magical girl stuff but sorcery can probably do something."

"Cool. I'll read up on all the lost ancient knowledge and eradicate Huntington's or something."

"Mom's going to love you," Emily predicts.

"Good."

"What's your favorite color? For when the trike's made."

"I didn't really have a favorite color. My old trike was dark blue."

"What do they paint bicycles with, I wonder."

"I'm not sure what kinda paint it is. Besides shiny."

"Maybe car paint. Maybe I should just make it out of something anodizeabe and anodize it."

"If you're going to make me a trike you can make it look however you want," laughs Annie.

"Oh, I'm going to take that as a challenge."

"...I mean, I won't be able to see it and regret opening my mouth," Annie says.

"Not that kind of challenge," she reassures her. "I'm going to cover it in poetry so you can see it."

"Oh! I like that idea."

"When Emily says she'll take something as a design challenge she means 'I'm going to make this as pretty as I possibly can.'"

"That is a good way to take a challenge."

"It has good results."

"What other things do you make?" Annie asks Emily.

"Mostly I just do art--metal sculpture--but when someone needs something made of metal I'm a go-to person for that around here."

"Do you do it with magic?"

"Absolutely."

"Awesome. I want to - watch."

"Sure! I've been working on this nifty piece that's mostly copper and titanium and inspired by that one kind of tree that's sort of like a mushroom--by which I mean there's this huge interconnected root system that's all technically one organism and the trees that sprout aren't their own individuals, they're part of the whole. You can get entire forests like that!"

"Aspens?"

"Yeah, those."