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Amentan Silvers and Vivids continued
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The nurse will let them in if they are very quiet and don't crowd the bed. Specially around baby Raeni.  

Which, they decide to start with.

Tepam draws Vision.

Migah draws Endurance.

And Ovali draws Time.

 

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Then they move to Aekon.

Tani draws Power. 

Seni draws Certainty. 

Teo draws Charm.

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Lia shares a speaking look with Ibrae and Adon, who are still in the room, while the latter notes down Raeni's blessings. That set suggests an interesting Gemini power. Assuming she makes it, which... there's every reason to believe she will. The doctors in the Gemini village's small hospital are top-notch, and many trained particularly in the area of neonatal care. Raeni will be fine. They'll draw blessings every day to make sure of it.

As for Aekon, "Another Power," she kisses his little head, "And charming as well." Though Certainty could be good or bad, depending on what Aekon is so certain of. "Endurance, for Raeni," she murmurs then, her worry showing more obviously now.

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"Migah has Endurance and she's okay," Lesi points out.

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"I am! I bet she... she is... going to be strong when she grows up."

"Shhh," her grandmother says. "Hospital, remember?"

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Mika nods a bunch, "Yeah, she's sick now but she's gonna be fine. That's what Enduring means, right?"

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Lia smiles, "Yes, it is. Strength through adversity," she smiles at Migah as well, "I'm sure she'll grow up to be very strong, just like you will. And in the meantime, she'll have her twin and her older brother and sister and all these friends to help her on her way." And eventually she'll have her Basics, which should fix anything they can't fix without magic. Everything is going to be fine.

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And everything is fine. Raeni's health continues to be worrying, but the blessings always come back hopeful, and she keeps pulling through. Soon, the first generation of children on the island start turning 2, and with this milestone it comes time to teach Tepam, Mika, and Alesin how to enchant. 

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Tepam is the most EXCITED CHILD EVER!!!

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Mika and Alesin are not as excited as Tepam but only because being as excited as Tepam is about learning magic without being Tepam is probably not possible. They are Pretty Excited, though, despite Mika's lingering memories of how it felt the last time he poked at a magic thing. 

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They are all very excited and very cute.

Lia has left Raeni and Aekon with Adon for the day, so she can devote all her attention to helping the trio safely learn one of the simple enchantments she'd built over the past three seasons. 

She brings them into her office and points them towards one of her tables, where nine plain rings are set three to a pile for them to pick from. 

"These all have warming, cooling, or glowing enchantments," she tells the three children. "Today you can pick one. You'll be disenchanting the one you pick to learn the enchantment, and then I'll be helping you enchant your first rings. These three enchantments are simple, so they shouldn't be dangerous for you to learn through disenchanting. After you've learned them, however, you'll have to learn the rest the hard way."

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Tepam pays a lot of attention to all of this. "I want to pick glowing!"

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"You can pick glowing," Lia says with a laugh. 

They're all pretty simple-looking, just metal wire twisted together to make plain rings. Lia hands Tepam one of the rings from the left pile and then waves Mika and Alesin forward to pick theirs.

"Don't get too attached," she tells them, "disenchanting wrecks the item, that's why they're all plain."

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Lesi picks cooling, because it is summer and that means it is really hot, all the time. 

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Hm, Mika wanted to learn the glowing one, but... he'll take warming, then. 

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"You don't have to pick different ones if you don't want to," Lia laughs. 

  "Oh!" Mika decides to pick the glowing one after all, then. 

"Alright, you've all got one? To the enchanting table, then." She leads them over to the table, which has a wide step stool in front of it so the kids can all see. 

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Tepam gets on the stool, left to Mika. "What do we do with it? Wait, was that the one that attacked Mika?"

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"It didn't really attack me," Mika tells her, climbing up on her right while Lesi stands on her left. 

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Lia pets his hair, "Mika disenchanted a very complicated necklace by accident, and it hurt him because it forced too much information into his brain. That's why you'll have to learn the more complicated enchantments the long way until you're older," she explains.

"Now, put your rings on the slate, between the symbols." 

Mika and Alesin do so.

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So does Tepam. "How much older?"

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Once the rings are on the table, the magic of the table itself shows the layer of magicka which surrounds them. All three rings have pale blue auras, though Alesin's is a slightly different shade.

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"Four," Lia tells her, amused. It'll give Tepam something to do while the others are figuring out their Bonuses, at least. "Mika, you've already done this once, do you think you can tell Tepam and Alesin what you have to do to catch hold of the magic?" 

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"Hmm," Mika nods, reaching out to try to catch the enchantment between his fingers. It takes him three times, but he manages it quicker than he did the last time. "Um, try just touching the magic before you try to grab it? It's slippery, but if you know what it feels like, it's easier." He lets go to poke at the magic of his ring, stroking it a couple times, before grabbing it again. 

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Tepam follows these instructions with crystal sharp focus. Poke. Poke. Poke. "I think I can grab it?" She tries a couple of times before managing it.

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Lesi takes a bit longer than Tepam did, but she gets it eventually.

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