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Corrin ([personal profile] betweenduskanddawn) wrote in [community profile] middaeg2020-06-25 10:51 pm

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Who: Corrin and Leslie
When: Mid-Monthish?
Where: Behind Corrin's house
What: Just some enchanting practice
Warnings: None?

MCorrin hummed to herself as she set out the last few things on the table she had dragged into the backyard. A dagger, a cup, a book, a few other bits and bobs. Just things she had found were decently useful when she wanted to practice enchanting. And hopefully using them would help Leslie pick it up too! Corrin had told her to bring a few things herself, if she wanted to, but figured it made more sense to be ready than not.

"Hm," she tapped her fingers against her leg as she looked over the table, then nodded to herself and turned to head back outside. A few minutes later she emerged with a pair of chairs and set them down, then plopped herself onto one. She was actually ready early, which...was not terribly like her.

Well, maybe she was just looking forward to teaching? Eh. No sense dwelling on it.
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[personal profile] foundfamilies 2020-06-26 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Leslie, too, has been looking forward to the lesson, which in her case comes with several pages of notes she’s taken from an academic book on enchantment she’d started going through when Corrin first suggested the lesson. Leslie has been getting better at translating magical theory into practice, but the magic she had in her world had worked for her more instinctively, so she still needs help in getting started on actually doing something new.

Though her dress has pockets, like all dresses should, she brings her own things in a bag strapped over her shoulder, which, in addition to the pages of notes bound with bits of string, includes a cheap necklace, a tiny length of chain, a spool of thread, and a spoon. The first two she bought specifically to test on for the sake of more expensive variants and the latter two were taken (with permission, of course) from her house.

When she sees Corrin sitting out where they planned to meet, she automatically picks up her pace and waves. “Corrin! Good day.” Leslie looks at the prepared table, chairs, and accessories, as well as Corrin herself. “I’m sorry. Am I late?”

She’s spent enough time with Corrin to know how unusual early might be, so Leslie suspects that she lost track of time and is actually late.
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[personal profile] foundfamilies 2020-06-27 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
At least Leslie doesn't judge her for it. She just nods at being told that Corrin came early and settles into the other seat (boosting herself up since she's still so short).

"I thought about the kinds of things that might be useful to enchant, though I don't have any experience in it."

She reaches into her bag to take things out one by one, placing them on the table. The first one to come to hand is the necklace, which is little more than a string with a few cheap beads strung on it. "It seemed like something that would be easy to keep with you, for a helpful enchantment." Since mid-February, Leslie has often been wearing one half of a friendship necklace that she isn't about to risk with first time enchanting.

The next is the spoon. "In case I ever found an enchantment that might be helpful when baking. Like a bowl that could keep the food inside warm?"

The spool of thread is the next one to come to hand. "Maybe it could be sewn into ordinary clothing? Though I never learned how to embroider."

And last is the little chain. She looks a little embarrassed as she explains this one. "I thought that I could get Lady Edelgard a pocket watch chain for her birthday, to go with those watches we were given when we arrived, but I can't afford anything really special. So if I could give it something with magic...." She trails off.
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[personal profile] foundfamilies 2020-06-29 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Leslie ponders the example. "So, because you want a glass to only be a little colder than a normal temperature, it doesn't have to change things very much, but a flaming sword is much hotter than normal temperature, so it has to change things a lot...is that it?"

She holds the test chain between her hands and looks at it. What might be useful as something attached to a communication watch?

"Something simple to make it last longer...so an enchantment to help her find it if she lost it wouldn't last very long. And I don't think that Lady Edelgard loses things very often."

Leslie can't imagine Edelgard not being completely in command of a situation. She suspects that Edelgard knows where everything she owns is at all times.
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[personal profile] foundfamilies 2020-06-29 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Leslie looks a little surprised by Corrin’s laugh. “Do you think so?” Her tone suggests some level of doubt. “I guess everyone might lose something every now and then, but...I don’t know if I can even imagine it.”

She’s clearly bought entirely into the Edelgard facade despite living with her for months. There may be a dash of hero worship going on here that makes it easy for her to subconsciously dismiss when the emperor, say, gets caught off guard by a dog on a video post in early Mareuer.

“Oh, this isn’t the chain that I’ll be giving her! I want to buy her something of better quality than this. But...I didn’t bring other chains to practice on, so you’re right. I’ll start with something else.” She sets it back down on the table, but continues to look at it. “If it was more durable...maybe I could get her one that isn’t so heavy.”
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[personal profile] foundfamilies 2020-06-30 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Leslie nods, looking almost a little embarrassed. "I guess these are a little petty when there's so much going on outside of the wall."

Maybe she should have thought of it. After all, Corrin was usually teaching her about combat, and Leslie was excited by the idea of being able to use an enchanted sword to allow her to help beyond what she can do now. But when it came to finding some things she could work with, she ended up getting distracted by other things. (Well, the thread might work as stealth armour but after that she got distracted.)

She always sits up pretty straight, but she makes the motion of sitting up straighter. "Yes. I've read a little about the theory of it, but...sometimes it can be hard to put it into practice right away."
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[personal profile] foundfamilies 2020-07-28 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Corrin’s sudden burst of passion startles Leslie. There is a small part of Leslie that wants to scold herself now for thinking the opposite to what she’d been scolding herself for before, but, even as self-critical Leslie is, she can tell that isn’t what Corrin means. She thinks the actual meaning is very wise and something she wants to remember.

“Thank you — Corrin.”

She nearly called her “Lady Corrin” without thinking: not because of their respective statuses, but out of a burst of even higher respect than usual. But she doesn’t think Corrin would appreciate her using a title for her, so she swallows that part.

“I knew that magic was different between people here, but...I guess that, as different as Aefenglom’s magic is from the kind in my world, the applications aren’t so different, so I didn’t think what it might be like for other people. The magical technology here must have been difficult to get used to, then. Were you a magician back in your world, too?”