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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
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."
themainattraction
"Not really! Just, you know, briefly covering stuff like are-we-monogamous that we'd want to go over if we were proper dating, when it's appropriate to refer to each other in what context--we're totally dating if a relative who'd otherwise be pushy about setting us up with someone asks, f'rinstance."
themainattraction
"It probably would be complicated if either of us were having these kinds of feelings at someone who was normal in that respect, but--what was that quote again about finding someone whose weirdness matches yours? Jaromira and I have our weird feelings, and you two," she grins, "have your adorable nerdiness."