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It is a lovely Saturday morning. Feathered children are watching cartoons; furred adults are eating brunch; scaled teenagers - one scaled teenager in particular, actually - is arguing with the proprietor of a magic shop.
"How did these items get made if there's no way to learn magic? Are the magicians homeschooling their children and not writing any books? How did you learn?"
"Half this stuff is antiques," says the shopkeep. "Look, asking me a dozen times isn't gonna make the answer more to your liking. I don't have Hogwarts in the basement, deal with it."
"But where do you get the stuff that isn't antique - who made the Avalon itself? - isn't anybody panicking about the medallion supply? -"
"Kid, nobody knows how to make medallions."
"But some people apparently know how to make luck charms and protection amulets!"
"I'm not going to give out my suppliers' personal information. I wouldn't do it even if you weren't annoying."
"There have to be books -"
"Does this look like a library to you?"
maybeso
themainattraction
"And less picking-up-a-new-hot-chick-every-
asteptotheright
"I can't say I'm exceptionally inclined. And even if we did go around picking up attractive women I would advocate treating them better than he did."
maybeso
"I don't remember that much about Indiana Jones's relationship style but I'll take your word for it."
asteptotheright
"He had a new love interest every movie. And most of them weren't of the one-night-stand variety, although I think the one in the second movie may have been." He rolls his eyes. "The first one was explicitly his ex-girlfriend with a grudge because he had been doing that kind of thing for a long time."
maybeso
"I mean, 'does not find life partner on first, second, or third try' does not automatically mean mistreatment."
asteptotheright
"It was how they broke up, I think." He waves a hand. "I could be wrong, I suppose, it's been a while and some of it was subtext. But I do think given the hard feelings from the first breakup they shouldn't have gotten back together if they weren't very sure it was going to work."
asteptotheright
"Also, none of the love interests were anywhere near as interesting as you. Or as pretty."
jumptotheleft
"If it had been just flattery, he wouldn't have waxed eloquent to me what a lovely smile you have."
jumptotheleft
"Oh, that reminds me--Kanimir told me about what he told you about Daphne's and my relationship. He misunderstood something. It's not that I'm confused about what my feelings for Daphne are, it's that I've had crushes and I've had platonic friends and it's not that I'm not sure which this is, it's that my feelings are genuinely somewhere between the two."
jumptotheleft
"It makes sense to me, it's just hard to describe in the English language. It's not--standard, but I'd rather be confusing to other people than pretend my thoughts are other than they are."