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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?"
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maybeso
maybeso
"Eh, follow me, otherwise I have to drive you back here to get your car after."
maybeso
She gives him a kiss to hold him for the duration of the drive, writes down her address in case he loses her in traffic, and heads for her car.
maybeso
And here is her house. It is a cute little house, with a seasonal pumpkin on the doorstep and a sign over the doorbell noting that it is broken. May lets herself and Kanimir in.
maybeso
"Mom!" calls Ren. "I am home and brought Kanimir!"
A woman who bears a strong resemblance to May sticks her head out of the kitchen. "And does Kanimir want dinner? Hello there, I've heard only good things."
A woman who bears a strong resemblance to May sticks her head out of the kitchen. "And does Kanimir want dinner? Hello there, I've heard only good things."
asteptotheright
"I have heard mostly adorable things! I'd love to stay for dinner, if it's not an imposition."
maybeso
"Not a bit. I hope you like potato soup. May, what are you saying about me?"
"True things," May trills. "Face it, Mom, you are a kindergarten teacher and that's inherently adorable as long as you don't hit anybody with a ruler."
Ren laughs.
"True things," May trills. "Face it, Mom, you are a kindergarten teacher and that's inherently adorable as long as you don't hit anybody with a ruler."
Ren laughs.
maybeso
"Well, aren't you polite. Thank you, Kanimir," says Ren.
"I'm gonna go up and show Kanimir the extent to which blue is my color," May says.
"I'll alert the media."
"The tabloids, maybe."
May abandons her chair at the front hall and makes her way up the stairs. It has double banisters.
"I'm gonna go up and show Kanimir the extent to which blue is my color," May says.
"I'll alert the media."
"The tabloids, maybe."
May abandons her chair at the front hall and makes her way up the stairs. It has double banisters.
maybeso
May giggles.
Her room is cozy, conspicuously bookish, and dim due to the drawn curtains until she flicks the lights on. There's a computer on the desk. May drops her bag next to her desk chair.
"D'you want to sit down or something in case you faint from my dragonicity?"
Her room is cozy, conspicuously bookish, and dim due to the drawn curtains until she flicks the lights on. There's a computer on the desk. May drops her bag next to her desk chair.
"D'you want to sit down or something in case you faint from my dragonicity?"
maybeso
She gestures broadly at desk chair and bed; he can take his pick.
And when he has sat, she assesses her distance from various walls, and then turns into a dragon.
She is about the size of a large sofa, plus some tail; low, sinuous, horned, ice-blue, with sharp narrow wings folded against her middle.
And when he has sat, she assesses her distance from various walls, and then turns into a dragon.
She is about the size of a large sofa, plus some tail; low, sinuous, horned, ice-blue, with sharp narrow wings folded against her middle.
asteptotheright
"You should be, you're amazing." Pause. "At risk of dampening the mood, if I tell my sister I went to your house and saw you full-form, that...would probably cover any other out-of-the-ordinary behavior that might give away the existence of a secret."
maybeso
May flops onto her side; it's a slightly odd motion on a dragon but looks pretty comfy. "Sounds good. I don't especially want people going around thinking about whether or not we have had sex."
asteptotheright
"Yes, there's a reason she would think it was in-character for me not to tell her about it. Better that it not be necessary for her to think so in the first place."
maybeso
"Yeah."
May discards fullform in favor of a midform which includes her horns and wings and tail. "So, fun fact, I can balance a lot better with a tail. The trouble is, wyverns have barbs, so..."
May discards fullform in favor of a midform which includes her horns and wings and tail. "So, fun fact, I can balance a lot better with a tail. The trouble is, wyverns have barbs, so..."
maybeso
"Yeah. I'm glad I ran across that fact before I showed up in the Avalon without my chair."
asteptotheright
"It might not have been disastrous depending on what anyone knew about wyverns, but. Yes. That is a good thing."
maybeso
May goes back to human form. "But Ren thinks it's weird to close the downstairs curtains, so we don't, so I get along without."