The Magic Box, Thursday

[angelo_wings]

Rinoa was in a wonderful mood today. There wasn't any bit of sparkly gem stuck to her stomach: she just woke up feeling happy about the world and everything in it. Some days, that just happened. Wasn't that the best?

She was now cleaning off the shelves in the Magic Box, and humming to herself while she worked. This store was awesome. Totally a

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[not_every_mage]

Anders hadn't noticed the Magic Box sign before: Now that he had, he intended to waste no time going in. Even if it was useless -- which wouldn't have surprised him -- it might be good for a laugh.

"Hello there," he said to the singing girl. "What kind of magic goods do you have here?"

[angelo_wings]

"What kind of magic goods are you looking for?" Rinoa answered brightly. "If you're looking for, like, card tricks and fake magic? Those are all up front. Charms and amulets are over to the side, while spell ingredients are all through here."

And just in case he was another person from the boring normal worlds without it, she hastened to add, "And yes, magic is real, and if you didn't know that already, yell at your big sibling for not warning you."

[not_every_mage]

"I can do magic," Anders assured her. "So that was one fewer thing for my sibling to have to worry about telling me about. And I'm looking for -- anything, really, but books on magical theory would be a start."

He had some dim idea about keeping up with the other apprentices as best he could. Not that he had immediate -- or any -- plans to go back to Ferelden, but if he landed there suddenly he didn't want to be unprepared for his Harrowing.

He added, "Can you do card tricks? I can never get the hang of them."

[OOC: Sorry, sleep called early last night.]

[angelo_wings]

"Oh, I don't do them properly," Rinoa laughed, dismissing the question with an airy wave of her hand. "I cheat. Easier to make the two of diamonds into the Ace of spades than to figure out where the Ace wandered off to."

Which meant real magicians doing fake magic were actually working harder at the trick than Rinoa was. It seemed a little backwards.

"We have lots of books on magical theory," she added. "All kinds of musty old tomes. Some of them aren't for sale until I can clear that they're okay -- even the theory books sometimes have spells tucked away, and I don't want anyone pronouncing a word wrong and accidentally summoning zombies."

That might be bad.

"What kind of magic do you do?" she asked. "Offensive, defensive, elemental spells? And what kind of theory are you interested in? Like, why or how it works, metaphysics, or more of a, ways to improve your own casting, sort of deal?"