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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
asteptotheright
"If I didn't have Jaromira I'd probably just find somewhere secluded to eat and pull out a book, to be honest."
maybeso
"Oh, I read at lunch often as not, but lunch in a public school isn't good introvert recharge time, so it might as well be token social effort time."
asteptotheright
"Most people assume, because we look so alike. Which is ridiculous, because fraternal twins are no more likely to look like each other than normal siblings, and they mostly don't seem to be under the impression that one of us is transgender."
maybeso
"Maybe they think you'd look more different if you had an age gap on top of being fraternal."
asteptotheright
"Perhaps. I don't think look very different than I did a year ago, but then I'm not the best judge of such things."
maybeso
Ren starts to get up.
"Mom. That is not your cue to get adorable pictures of Tiny May."
"Aw."
"Mom. That is not your cue to get adorable pictures of Tiny May."
"Aw."
maybeso
"Do you desperately want to see pictures of Tiny May?" sighs Not Tiny May.
maybeso
"They're not that bad," objects Ren.
"Maybe not, but you took hundreds of them! We'd be here to the wee hours of the morning!"
"Maybe not, but you took hundreds of them! We'd be here to the wee hours of the morning!"
asteptotheright
Kanimir laughs. "It's fine. According to reliable sources we are adorable enough in our present forms."
maybeso
"I don't object to you eventually seeing pictures of me, just don't let Ren corner you with Photo Album Volume One."
maybeso
"Let me at least show him the one from summer camp."
"Which one from summer camp?"
"When you were nine, with the certificate, you smiled properly for the camera in that one."
"All right, fine, but you stop there, okay?"
"Okay, okay," laughs Ren, and she goes and gets a photo album and comes back and shows it to Kanimir opened to the correct page. A nine-year-old May displays a certificate next to her beaming gaptoothed face; it asserts that she is an Exemplary Camper. Other photos on the page are May and other kids playing the recorder at some sort of school event, May looking disgruntled in a fishing hat with an out-of-frame father patting her on the head from the right angle to also be taking the picture, and May in line for a roller coaster.
"Which one from summer camp?"
"When you were nine, with the certificate, you smiled properly for the camera in that one."
"All right, fine, but you stop there, okay?"
"Okay, okay," laughs Ren, and she goes and gets a photo album and comes back and shows it to Kanimir opened to the correct page. A nine-year-old May displays a certificate next to her beaming gaptoothed face; it asserts that she is an Exemplary Camper. Other photos on the page are May and other kids playing the recorder at some sort of school event, May looking disgruntled in a fishing hat with an out-of-frame father patting her on the head from the right angle to also be taking the picture, and May in line for a roller coaster.
asteptotheright
"I can show you similar pictures at my house later, if you want," he mentions. "I've had long hair all my life, there are actually some pictures from incidents where Jaromira stuffed me in a dress and no one who didn't know us already guessed I wasn't a girl."
asteptotheright
"The last such picture is from last July. Apparently I never grew out of it."
asteptotheright
"Exactly. Apparently I make a very pretty girl; I wouldn't necessarily mention it but you did say you were bisexual."