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It has never done anything wrong. In fact, none of the air in the patch has, even when it has been in other patches. It's so innocent.
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"Yeah!"
greatestgift
"Okay, here."
She gives Rithka the Reflective Metal Dye vial (because why not) and pours out some plain beads into one of the remaining empty bowls.
She gives Rithka the Reflective Metal Dye vial (because why not) and pours out some plain beads into one of the remaining empty bowls.
Rithka takes the dye.
"...What do I do with it?"
"...What do I do with it?"
greatestgift
"It should sort of - say," she says. "If it doesn't, then I don't think you can use it. When I pick up a bottle of dye it kind of 'tells' me what the name of its colour is and what things it can dye and how to do it."
Rithka tries shaking the dye, and then holding it up to her ear. She sighs and frowns and sulks.
greatestgift
"It's okay, I can still dye stuff for you," says Sable. She starts putting bottles neatly back into her dye box. The thwarted bowl gets one of the split colours, and at first it looks like they were all dyed plain brown, but she stirs her hand through the beads and it turns out that each one was dyed so that exactly its top half became brown and exactly its bottom half became silver, whichever orientation it happened to be in at the time.
Rithka does stop pouting at the pretty new beads.
greatestgift
"I like those."
She tries a more complicated split colour - "this one's called 'Blue Flame and Black'" - and it does the same thing, colouring the top halves of the beads in a pretty blue-turquoise gradient and the bottom halves in plain black. And now they are running very short on bowls.
She tries a more complicated split colour - "this one's called 'Blue Flame and Black'" - and it does the same thing, colouring the top halves of the beads in a pretty blue-turquoise gradient and the bottom halves in plain black. And now they are running very short on bowls.
Rithka runs inside and comes out with a box with a picture of a cookie on it, a set of teacups, and two pairs of shoes.
greatestgift
"...Where are you going to put all of these things once you have pretty beads in them?" she wonders.
"In my room! And then I'll sew the beads."
"...If I put some of them on the bed and just be small to sleep yes!"
greatestgift
Sable giggles.
"I'm wondering if it might be time to figure out a different way to store all the beads so they're nice and separate but you can still use your bed and your bowls and your teacups and your shoes!"
"I'm wondering if it might be time to figure out a different way to store all the beads so they're nice and separate but you can still use your bed and your bowls and your teacups and your shoes!"
"Oh, these aren't my shoes."
"Those are Mallyn's and these are Mom's."
greatestgift
"Have you asked Mallyn and your mother if you can fill their shoes with beads?" inquires Sable, trying and rather thoroughly failing to keep a straight face.
"If they needed their shoes right now they would be wearing them, right now," says Rithka.
greatestgift
"But will they need their shoes between now and when you have finished using all the beads you're going to put in them?"
"...Maybe not?"
greatestgift
"I think you should probably ask before you fill someone else's shoes with beads," says Sable.
"But then they might not let me fill their shoes with beads," says Rithka. "And then we can't use all the colors!"
greatestgift
"What do you suppose will happen if you fill their shoes with beads and then they decide they would rather not have beads in their shoes?"
"They'll have to find somewhere else to put beads in," says Rithka. "Because they can't just dump them out on the floor. And then the beads will be somewhere okay for beads to be."