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[charring]

[Charlie's at home in the living-room this time. She's seated on the couch with Phantom sleeping at an awkward angle on her shoulder. Seriously, he's upside down and seconds from falling off into her lap but it's obvious he's breathing and occasionally his paws move like he's chasing something, accompanied by faint growl sounds from the fox.

Goofy animal.]

So, yesterday I was almost flattened by a marble table that fell from the sky. Someone knocked it out of the air before it hit me. A very....big someone and I didn't get the chance to do this yesterday so...thanks.

[And then she filters it to friends. This is important. Pay attention. This has her in a very good, and somehow kind of shy mood, so she's going to fail at Words and this won't come out quite as eloquently as she'd like it to.]

[Friends filter;]
I need help putting something together. It's....[A pause. She never in her wildest dreams thought this would be happening to her. Her life just didn't allow it. So she's not sure what she wants to say.] Merlin and I are getting married and I don't know the first thing about putting a wedding together and I'm asking my friends for help with this.

[Charlie, that was the shittiest way to announce your future plans. And she seems aware of this because her face turns red and she runs her fingers through her hair a moment. Phantom wakes up long enough to slide off her shoulder and run off. His human disrupted his nap. He's going to sleep elsewhere.] I don't...really want something big, even if this is big for us. I just want it special and would love it if all my friends were part of it.

[And then the feed shuts off. She's said enough. She can't brain saying more because it's once again hit her that she is getting married. Holy shit.]

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[charring]

Actually, I have a sword. It's made from sand and fire and magic and won't let anyone touch it but me.

[She's serious, too. She made it with Professor McGonagall during a desert curse that lasted way too long.]

What do you mean, you can do the rings?

[infernoandhearth]

Oh good. Has Merlin one? I suppose there's no convenient barrow to thieve from here, is there? [MORE JOKES. He knows how modern weddings work, really.]

I mean I'll forge them for you, if you don't have them picked out already too.

[charring]

Seriously?

[infernoandhearth]

Of course! I have to do a wedding gift, after all. Is there anything you'd like them to be able to do?

[charring]

I think I'd have to discuss that with Merlin.

[infernoandhearth]

I'd stay away from asking for one which makes more gold, though. Those sorts of rings never turn out well.

[charring]

[A laugh.] That sounds potentially hazardous.

[infernoandhearth]

[Super earnestly:] Oh, it is. Always. You and Merlin tell me what you decide upon, alright? Oh, and the metal, too.

Private to Luke:

[charring]

[She's probably left the house to say this, carrying the device with her before filtering it to just Luke.]

Would I be able to help you make the rings?

Private

[infernoandhearth]

It depends. What do you have in mind? What sort of rings and what sort of helping?

Private

[charring]

We discussed it and considering how crazy this place is, we want to be able to find each other if we need to.

And...I don't know. I just know I want to help.

Private

[infernoandhearth]

I like that. It's very sweet. You'll need to bring me a lock of Merlin's hair for that one. I rather fancy linking the rings to you so they'd tend to stick to you. Not that it would link the two of you inextricably, of course.

Would you like to help with the fire?

[destinedtobeunpopular]

[ Perks! ]

As in enchanted rings?

[charring]

Hello, handsome. I think I had an idea and I wanted to run it by you before I told Luke.

[destinedtobeunpopular]

Hello, beautiful. What is it?

[charring]

Well, lets say the City decides to pull something dangerous and we needed to find each other?

[destinedtobeunpopular]

[ Bit of a pause. ]

Yes?

[charring]

What if the rings helped somehow?

[destinedtobeunpopular]

Oh.

Yeah. Yeah, I think that would be good.

[infernoandhearth]

Yes, exactly like that.

[destinedtobeunpopular]

That's... an idea.

[ Meaning it's pretty unexpected. ]

[infernoandhearth]

I needn't, if you don't want me to, you and Charlie. But I did train with dwarves, and with them, forged items holding some power is near inevitable. Oh, and inescapably, some of me will make its way into them. Metalwork takes fire, after all.

[destinedtobeunpopular]

No, no, it's... It's fine. Dwarves? They're supposed to be really good with... forging things, right?

[infernoandhearth]

No, they're utterly useless. That's why I sought them out: to find teachers to whom I'd look good in comparison.

[destinedtobeunpopular]

Right. Of course. My bad.