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It is a lovely Saturday morning. Feathered children are watching cartoons; furred adults are eating brunch; scaled teenagers - one scaled teenager in particular, actually - is arguing with the proprietor of a magic shop.
"How did these items get made if there's no way to learn magic? Are the magicians homeschooling their children and not writing any books? How did you learn?"
"Half this stuff is antiques," says the shopkeep. "Look, asking me a dozen times isn't gonna make the answer more to your liking. I don't have Hogwarts in the basement, deal with it."
"But where do you get the stuff that isn't antique - who made the Avalon itself? - isn't anybody panicking about the medallion supply? -"
"Kid, nobody knows how to make medallions."
"But some people apparently know how to make luck charms and protection amulets!"
"I'm not going to give out my suppliers' personal information. I wouldn't do it even if you weren't annoying."
"There have to be books -"
"Does this look like a library to you?"
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maybeso
asteptotheright
"...Does either of them feel more--natural to you? You grew up as a human but the other one is your 'real' form..."
maybeso
"Well, having a tail feels useful, and walking is easier on four legs, but for naturalness I'm gonna have to go with human."
asteptotheright
"Well. They're both beautiful.
"On a semi-relevant note, Daphne found a recipe for fake opals involving glitter and translucent clay while we were looking for the plastic recipe. I think she's going to actually try to make you a crown. Or a tiara, anyway."
"On a semi-relevant note, Daphne found a recipe for fake opals involving glitter and translucent clay while we were looking for the plastic recipe. I think she's going to actually try to make you a crown. Or a tiara, anyway."
maybeso
"Ha! Maybe sometime I'll take a fifteen-minute break from real spell development to write randomly chosen runes and tell them to turn it into real opal. If I have powers."
asteptotheright
"I bet you do. It's not like the universe has passed up any other opportunities to make you awesome; why start now?"
maybeso
May giggles. "I'm tempted by your logic but I'm not sure that's actually how the distribution of traits works."
asteptotheright
"It's not a reason to make imprudent decisions," Kanimir agrees. "But I think it is a reason for hug." He hugs her.
maybeso
And after about two minutes of magic:
"Dinnertime!"
May heads down the stairs.
"Dinnertime!"
May heads down the stairs.
maybeso
Dinner is potato soup with ham in it, and veggie stirfry on the side. It is competently if not miraculously cooked. Dessert is storebought macadamia white chocolate chip cookies.
maybeso
Ren is delighted to receive this compliment, and to receive an update on May's potential (anti)-magic powers and runic research.
asteptotheright
"I suppose another dragon medallion would be harder to come by than a wyvern one, but what do you think you would do if you found one and it turned out to be you who was May's dragon parent?"
maybeso
"Oh, I'd get her to turn me invisible and fly around, obviously," laughs Ren. "I'd be so tempted to tell all my friends, but apparently that would be dangerous! I can get into the Avalon either way, all I have to do is know my stuff for the guards - you know, of course, you don't have a medallion either. Anyway, I can't be turning in the middle of a magic shop and the blank medallions are so expensive, so it'll have to be a daydream for the time being."
asteptotheright
"What do the blank medallions do? I heard about them in the shop but I didn't think to inquire."
maybeso
"They work for any kind of critter," May says. "There aren't that many left in circulation. If we can figure out how to make those, we should probably make them to the exclusion of specialized ones."
asteptotheright
"If those exist, how are monstrous species as a category a thing?" And then he answers his own question: "Because there aren't enough blank medallions to make examples of those species that have medallions anything more than the rarest of exceptions, I suppose."
maybeso
"No, that's not why. Monsters just don't interact with medallions at all. Sorry, when I said any kind of critter I meant any kind where medallions are a thing. But we should try to come up with a broader version anyway."
asteptotheright
"...Why don't they? Do they have some kind of fundamental magical difference?"
maybeso
"Those are the options. Well, I suppose unless one of us finds out and does not tell the other."
asteptotheright
"That would be silly and obstructive for the purposes of creating broader classes of medallion. Let's not do that."