A Margaret in Fabulous
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Everyone stares at her.

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She'd be staring at her too, if that was an option! "Ack! So it turns out my precognition has no sense of discretion and also no off switch? I'm so sorry." Her fidgetable sleeve is getting quite a workout, she'll pop a gem off if she's not careful.

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"Maybe you should have a more civvie outfit for regular situations," growls Hattie, "so you can turn it off."

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"It could be useful in any situation, though . . ." But she does take off enough of her jewelry to prevent a recurrence in the next five minutes. "Maybe if I get my main outfit better I'll get some control over it." How is Larissa reacting to this?

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Larissa's not looking at Hattie or at Margaret. Turns out her elf ears are a little mobile; they're sort of drooping.

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Poor both of them. "So, um, Larissa, do you have the practice targets?"

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Larissa gets them out and sets them up and claims one and starts shooting at it. Everyone else awkwardly follows suit.

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Target shooting! So much target shooting! And no other things!

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Hattie leaves early. Sumiko jogs to catch up with her and they talk out of earshot, then Sumiko comes back and Hattie leaves.

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" . . . I hope she's okay. My magic is a jerk." She has in fact fidgeted enough during target practice to tear her lacework sleeve a bit.

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That's not very fabulous, Margaret.

"She'll get over it," says Sumiko. "I don't know how soon though."

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"I hope so. I should go home."

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"See you later," says Aaliyah, tone apologetic.

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"See you!" She heads home, complains to her parents about how even magic can't make high school not be high school, and works on her outfit in the mirror for a while. Now that she has a spell that could really benefit from improvement she's going to grab every bit of beauty she can wring out of her imagination, starting with a couple of silver bangles on the arm that doesn't have a sleeve.

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The bangles are good!

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Ah, excellent. Bangles=good. This is much more the sort of magical information she would prefer to be receiving. How about if they're elaborate chain-link bracelets instead of single pieces?

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Those are even better!

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Yay! And how about a necklace that's a web of tiny sapphires and sort of extends the pattern of gems on her shirt up to her neck? It might take a few iterations to get it arranged how she wants it.

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Once she has that down the magic likes it a heck of a lot.

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Putting effort into things and getting results is so rewarding! She has no idea how much it will take to make her prophecies more benevolent, if that's even a direction they'll improve in, but this can't hurt. Also, jewelry with no need for clasps is the best jewelry.

She tries wrapping her opaly horns in silver wires, two loose spirals on each one with opposite handedness so they crisscross.

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The wires are a little worse like that.

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No, that really doesn't work with the way her horns curve, does it? Off they go. 

Speaking of "opaly", opals don't all look the same, do they? She does some online image searches and cycles all her opals in unison from "white fire opal" to "black fire opal" and then "blue opal".

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Blue is best!

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Then she will check a couple different shades of blue and then switch to doing her nails! Right now they're just single pieces of opal; what if the makes them longer and slightly pointer and paints the tips silver?

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Neutral.

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