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Annie is on her trike on her way to school.
This van labeled HAZARDOUS MATERIALS is also on its way to school.
The van hits a patch of black ice. It goes spinning, it turns over, it slices itself open on a wrought-iron fence with spikes, and it disgorges boxes which smash open on the pavement. Some of them skitter clear into the slush.
Some of them - along with most of the van - land on Annie.
There is a whirl of bewildering pain and confusion -
- and she falls to the ground, injured and in more kinds of discomfort beyond that and moaning.
She slowly starts to heal before the eyes of her sole witness.
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"Tev is likely to be fully awake by now. I want to catch up with him and discuss strategy."
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"See you later!" says Metella. She leaves.
"While I'm here, do you think Caridin would mind talking to me again? He makes smithcraft so much more interesting than usual!" says Dagna.
"While I'm here, do you think Caridin would mind talking to me again? He makes smithcraft so much more interesting than usual!" says Dagna.
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"I don't think he'd mind," says Annie. To the workshop. Annie will take a short break from making lights to make a little reference sculpture of a swan.
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"It's going to be a bird; my last name is the word for a particular kind of bird. Where I grew up engaged couples wear something on one ear and then add another to the other ear when they get married, and here it's apparently customary to wear crests, so I'm going to have Aeducan crest earrings and Stalas is going to have swans but I need to make a reference."
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"Neat! I didn't know that's what birds looked like! Do you know who's going to make them?" says Dagna.
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"No idea, I'll probably hand the swan to Stalas and he'll find us a jeweler."
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"Same way when I didn't have any clothes that fit he went and found a tailor - what?"
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"I mean - I'm not exactly a jeweler but - I'm sure Prince Stalas can find somebody better - but I could make them for you, I bet," she says haltingly. "If you want."
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"...I get the impression that dwarves don't really wear earrings, so I'm not sure anyone he could find would be 'a jeweler' in the sense of having made lots of earrings before," Annie says. "If you'd like to make them and you think you can I'd like that."
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"The simplest kind just have a post that goes through the earlobe - I'll have to pierce my own ears, I guess - and then a little clip thing on the back to prevent them sliding out, and the decoration part on the front. How small can you make an Aeducan seal?"
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"Pretty small!" She gestures a size approximately equivalent to the signet ring Stalas has been known to wear. "I'm less sure about the swan. I'd have to design something. But I can do that!"
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"He doesn't want the piercings, so it'd have to be a wrap-around design, something like -" She gets paper and draws many of one letter which is amenable to being a line in a diagram. "With the swan attached somewhere."
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"But ask him before you settle on something, he might have been imagining something when I said there was a wrap-around option."
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"I will!"
Dagna turns to Caridin, who is still working on bicycles.
"And I have a few questions..."
Nerding commences.
Dagna turns to Caridin, who is still working on bicycles.
"And I have a few questions..."
Nerding commences.
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Annie finishes her swan reference and makes lights and listens to the nerding.
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In between nerdings, Dagna picks up a couple of small scraps of copper and engraves them with a little Aeducan seal and a little stylized swan of similar dimensions. The little swan is pretty respectable for having been done from a single reference by someone who has never otherwise seen a bird; it's very much in the angular dwarven style, but preserves something of the character of swan-ness nonetheless.
"Can you see these okay? Do you like them?" she asks Annie.
"Can you see these okay? Do you like them?" she asks Annie.
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"Let me hold it...?" Annie runs her thumb over it. "I'm used to art of swans being really swirly and curved, but this is still definitely a swan."
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"I'm glad my sculpture made sense, it's hard to do blind and I've never been an artist."