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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
"Yeah, that's a fair point. Although recordings can't be too tricky, they have little ones in birthday cards sometimes."
maybeso
"They do, but rigging them up is still done by machines made by people who know engineering and stuff."
asteptotheright
"Yes, perhaps I should refrain from making judgments on the difficulty level of things I myself do not know how to do."
maybeso
"It's an easy mistake to make. People will eventually be going 'how hard can it be to make up spells? The wizard tycoons do it all the time!'"
asteptotheright
"Of course, if they get too arrogant, that particular case has the risk of a death by dragonic deficiency."
asteptotheright
"Our products should have labels warning against misuse. We should have 'don't try this at home, kids!' labels."
asteptotheright
"No, but I shall be bathed in your reflected glory. ...That sounded better in my head."
maybeso
"I bet it did. I mean, I can flop on you to prevent magical accidents but it seems more efficient for me to do all hazardous casting myself unless I'm totally wiped out and for you to be the live fire tester, so to speak."
asteptotheright
Mmm, kiss. He files away that last comment in a mental file labeled "wordsets that have given good results."
maybeso
Which would cause much giggling if she knew.
Kiss and kiss and: "I have lost track of what we were doing. Did we have any more experiments pending for today?"
Kiss and kiss and: "I have lost track of what we were doing. Did we have any more experiments pending for today?"
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