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The snake is sort of weird.

It's big enough that anyone with the strength to manifest it ought also to have the finesse to control it, but instead it appears to be rampaging, which makes its weirdness sort of secondary to the fact that there is a giant snake with a mirror for a face thrashing around.

Idaia isn't especially scared. She had a dream last week about a roomful of mirrors being destroyed, so she should be able to do some damage and maybe get the thing locked down.

It isn't a surprise either, exactly, when the head swings towards her and her sister--

It's definitely a surprise when bracing for the impact does exactly nothing because no impact occurs.

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The custom is to give each other rings. Just so you can be on the lookout for materials.

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Ooh, noted.

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He has no regrets about this life choice.

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Regrets are for life choices that aren't awesome.

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He's never been much for regrets for those either, actually.

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Well, if he's not even going to regret non-awesome life choices, obviously it would be ridiculous to regret this one.

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I love you.

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I love you too.

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So how do we tell your sister.

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Uhhh...'shoo, I'm about to do something crazy and reckless and awesome, don't try to talk me out of it'?

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That'll work? My brothers would probably sit on me.

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With Imliss and I, it's--we can tell each other what to do. If she says, 'I need you to do X' then I will do X, and if I say, 'You mustn't do Y' then she will not do Y. So obviously since we have that power over each other we're only going to actually try to use it when it really matters, and she wouldn't be opposed enough that this qualified. And there's, you know, nuance, I can tell when she's just telling me to do something and when she needs me to do something. ...She won't try to stop me because she trusts me, basically.

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I'm glad. That seems like a good way of trust working.

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It works very well for us.

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I'd like to have a forge to make your ring; perhaps we can detour by a village somewhere and commandeer one.

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Yeah, I don't...I don't actually know how I'm gonna do yours, I was training as a dreamshaper, I am not so great at making things that're actually permanent. I mean, I know how to do some things, but I don't know that I could get anything good enough.

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It'll be good enough. A twig would be good enough.

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It'd be pretty hard to wear a twig as a ring, she giggles. I'm thinking glass, I at least have an idea of how to work glass so it's pretty.

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Sounds great. We can commandeer other things in the village, if you'd need them. 

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Clay, to take a casting of your finger to work the glass around.

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We can definitely do that.

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Great. What're your favorite colors?

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House colors are red and silver. I like greens, but green and red and silver's a bit much.

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Is silver glass even a thing? Aside from, like, mirrors, I guess.

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If someone's done it, I've never seen it. 

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