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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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Corrin stayed quiet as Leslie brought out the various things and set them on the table, nodding occasionally at each little explanation. Huh. The chain was actually a good idea, though she couldn't immediately think of something that would be useful for a magic watch chain. Maybe if they could make it unbreakable? She'd have to research that...

"No, these are all great," Corrin said once Leslie had finished. "And I'm sure El will like whatever you get her, but the chain idea is lovely." She nodded as she spoke, gesturing for Leslie to take a seat in the other chair.

"We will have to come up with something useful, but simple, for the chain. I've found that the more straight forward an enchantment is, the more permanent it seems to be. Otherwise they won't last terribly long. Not until you really get used to it. And some will never last long." She shrugged. "I haven't really sorted out the pattern to it, yet. Enchanting a glass to stay cold seems to last a while, but when I enchant my sword to produce flames, it only lasts a few minutes. I think it might have something to do with how much magic it pulls from the...well. Everywhere?"

Corrin hadn't done a lot of reading outside of the practical parts of this. But that was what she had needed!

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.

"Essentially. At least, as far as I can tell that's how it works," Corrin nodded, smiling brightly as Leslie seemed to pick things up quickly. "I'm sure there's a way to do enchantments that last forever, I just haven't found it yet."

It probably just took more power than she had to spare.

Corrin laughed, covering her hand with her mouth. "Oh I'm sure she loses things. She just makes sure none of us ever find out." She loved Edelgard, but teasing at that facade of hers was one of Corrin's favorite little games.

"Hm..." Her gaze settled on the chain. "Actually, it might be possible to make it so that it is more durable? But you'll probably want to practice other things first."

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.”

Corrin managed to refrain from commenting further on Edelgard's possible non-perfectness. No sense popping Leslie's bubble, really, not when Edelgard even mostly deserved it. She bit her lip to keep another laugh from slipping out, and focused on eyes on the things on the table to distract her. Right.

Hehe.

"Making something light also strong is probably pretty easy to do," Corrin agreed, grateful for something else to shift her mind to. "I'll admit most of what I've practiced has been combat oriented, but that doesn't mean it's the only application."

And making something light and strong had to be useful too. Hm...

"But before we can get anywhere near there, we should get you started on the basics." She said with a grin.

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."

Corrin shook her head faster than she meant to. "Not at all! Not everything has to be dedicated to fighting. In fact, we have make sure everything isn't because eventually we'll be done fighting. And that can't be the only thing we know."

That had gotten a little deeper than she meant for it to, and she had a faint blush on her cheeks as she realized it. So she just swallowed down the words and brought a smile back to her face.

"Practice. Right. The hard part for me was really coming to terms with the idea that magic could do something like this. Instead of just...hurling fireballs or healing wounds." Magic in her world had a pretty limited scope.

"Taking an object and...imbuing it with power. It still seems a little strange, honestly."

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?”

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