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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
maybeso
"Tangent, I'm pretty sure the species differences are incomplete, considering that all kinds of critters and also humans can all interbreed if they want to."
themainattraction
"...I'm going to be a biologist. Do you think it would be horribly insensitive to try to study the various kinds of critters on that level?"
themainattraction
"Probably 'take genetic samples and analyze differences between various sorts of critters and humans.' But also possibly things like--I'm a firebird, I have some remarkable visual similarities to a peacock aside from mostly being in reds and oranges, I could see if I'm put together like a peacock too."
maybeso
"Sounds fine as long as you get standard anthropology ethics right instead of settling for standard zoology."
themainattraction
"I promise if I become an evil scientist I'll be the sort that unleashes motile carnivorous plants on the populace, not the kind that doesn't treat people like people."
themainattraction
"See, the one is funny because it's not actually plausible, but the other is unfunny because people actually do that."
themainattraction
"If I unleashed carnivorous plants using magic I would be being an evil wizard, not an evil scientist. Also, I will not unleash carnivorous plants."
maybeso
"Excellent. We shall compare."
Comparison! They match more closely than the invisibility did, although she's got a meaning he doesn't down for teleportation and she's missing one he included for injury healing.
Comparison! They match more closely than the invisibility did, although she's got a meaning he doesn't down for teleportation and she's missing one he included for injury healing.
maybeso
And when Daphne and Jaromira double-check they come to sufficiently firm conclusions and can proceed.
But May's laptop is running out of charge and it's getting late.
"I'll email you all the spreadsheet and see you tomorrow."
But May's laptop is running out of charge and it's getting late.
"I'll email you all the spreadsheet and see you tomorrow."