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Margaret in Medallion
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Hmm. Her runecasting isn't really a secret by itself, even if her being a dragon is helping somehow. "Yeah, I could do that. Know anyone who might be interested, or should I put up flyers or something?"

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"I bet my grandma would buy one?"

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"And I bet you know her taste in jewelry, too. I still need to get a cheap crummy ring and a necklace to test that the spell works on things you wear instead of holding, but that shouldn't take long." Argh argh she has to figure out how much to charge and her first customer is a friend's grandmother. 

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"I can get started on a ring for Grandma."

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"And I'll get ready to enchant it. Anything else to think about before I head home? Oh, I should give you my email address."

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"What do you want your site to be like? I can start the design even if there's not a host yet."

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"Um, space for pictures, and descriptions, and I'll probably want to put up a video of me demonstrating it? And a form where people can put in a description of what they want and a shipping address? But I don't know how to take online payments, I might need people to mail me checks until I can get a bank account . . ."

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"You could get a PayPal."

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"Oh, yeah, that would do it. And it'd need to be password-protected like the Avalon events website so only people who know about magic can see it. Maybe with a contact email outside the password section so people can email me with proof that they know and get the password that way, or something."

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"Yeah, I can critterlock it."

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"I had not heard that word, that is an adorable word." She's gotten her email written down by now and hands over the bit of paper. "I can probably use regular mail for shipping, nobody's going to unwrap my packages and say random words at them and they'll just look like jewelry. And presumably Avalons have mail pickups for residents?"

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"Yeah, of course."

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"Then I think that's everything, or at least everything that doesn't depend on decisions I haven't made yet."

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"Thank you," Brenda says. "I can make a ring for myself too - you want this back?"

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"Yeah, thanks, I might think of more tests I should do on it. Will you or your grandmother want them magically durable? Because I'm planning to offer that as an option but I haven't finished designing it yet."

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"I don't think that's necessary? Unless it'll turn us visible again if any of the coating on the wire scratches off."

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"That's one of the things I need to test; I'll let you know."

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"Okay. I guess wire can bend, too. Do you want a ring to try? Is it something that would be different depending on the kind?"

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"There are a lot of different ways something could get damaged, and I'm not sure which ones would make the spell stop working . . . If you have a ring that has all the same parts as the rings you'll be making, but that you wouldn't mind if it got totally destroyed, I could use that. Otherwise I should make a mockup out of like, a paperclip and a bit of glass, something easy to break, and break that."

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"I mean, anything I have might sell, but I could give you an old one that I keep lowering the price on."

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"If you're alright with me potentially completely smashing it, sure."

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"It's listed for twenty bucks now. It's fine. Should we go get it?"

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"Yes, let's." Follow follow.

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Brenda finds the ring; it is a substandard but structurally comparable example of what she turns out, with a bit of amethyst trapped in copper wire. "I don't know what I was thinking," she confides, "copper and amethyst."

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"Well, it's got all the parts it needs to have for me to test what will make the spell stop working. Thanks. Anything else to figure out before I go home?"

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