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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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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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Does white work?

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Anything works. But yeah, white and red people'll recognize. 

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Obvious thing if I were doing, like, green and red is green stem and red flower(s) but I really don't think I'm good enough to even fake competence at anything non-abstract.

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It is not going to matter to me. 

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You're amazing and you deserve something beautiful and also I suspect my life will be easier if I don't have people judging me for my terrible glassworking skills as much.

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I can always have them thrown into the dungeons. 

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Please don't have people thrown into dungeons on my behalf, she giggles.

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How nice do the dungeons have to be, and how annoying the comments, before this is a perfectly reasonable thing to do?

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I think if the comments are sufficiently socially unacceptable and the dungeons are nice enough that people won't go, oh, that horrible woman seduced the prince and is making him throw people she doesn't like in dungeons, tsk tsk, that's when.

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That seems itself a dungeon-worthy comment. No one calls my wife horrible or suggests she did anything more seductive than existing as herself in my vicinity. 

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Please don't make everyone else in the city loathe me because you're adorably overprotective.

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We have Maitimo for that, don't worry. 

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Making people loathe me? Or making sure they don't?

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Making sure they think you can do no wrong. He could probably also make them loathe you but he's my brother, I trust him, and he never would. 

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I know, I was teasing.

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Tirion doesn't have any dungeons, and I've gotten used to ignoring people who think they get to have opinions about who I'm sleeping with. 

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