Page 53 of Surviving Enchantment: Part two
The woman’s eyes went wide, and she went back to the jeweller, whose head snapped up.He set his project aside and walked over to her.“You are a giant?”
She stretched up to her full height and then shrank down to her snow fox.The booth wench went, “Oh, you are so cute.Can we be friends?”
Suddenly, she was a tiny purse dog with flaming red eyes.A hellhound.Amy laughed wildly in her foxy form and then stood with her white ears perky.“Yes, we can be friends, but I don’t get out much.”
“That’s okay.I am out enough for both of us.Well, until the faire closes.Then I like to garden poisonous plants.”
Amy grinned.“Excellent hobby.”
The mage with the burly arms asked, “Do you have a measurement from your fox form?”
She held out her pinky and third finger.“These two together.My wrist as a giant is the width of my knee if we are talking about bracelets.For earrings, the smallest ones would be a kernel of corn versus a plum.”
He smiled.“I can work with that.Then there is a temperature issue.What are your maximum and minimum temperatures?”
“Celsius?It is plus two hundred to minus two hundred.”
“Shit.That is some variables.Also a fire giant?”He got a notebook out and started scribbling details.“Frost giants don’t usually buy jewellery outside of their clans.”
“The wave was very generous.I got a bunch of goodies.The giants get and give jewels from lovers.I don’t want to apply for that position, so I am going to buy my own.I just don’t know what I want to pick.I just got to the point where I was willing to commit to buying stuff for myself.”
He looked at her and nodded.“I understand.So, what kind of an enchantment would you want on it?”
“Disinterest?I am tired of fending off passes when I am not looking for a partner.”
“That is usually the reverse of what folks ask for.Do you want them repelled, or do you want to be invisible?”
“I just want to be not interesting.Attention makes me uncomfortable.”
“Okay.Got it.Can I contact you with details?I won’t get anything done until next week.”
“Sure.”She pulled a card out and handed it to him.
“The XIA?”
“Just in admin.Nothing major.A job is a job.”She smiled.
He looked at her email address.“Nice.Okay, I will get back to you as soon as I find a spell that can create the desired effect.For now, can I interest you in a necklace that will work with emotional strength?”
“Sure.Or, do you have one for courage?A friend is reconnecting with a one-night stand that left her with a ten-year-old.”
The assistant got a pretty necklace with stones that matched Iris’s eyes, and, as her friend’s birthday was coming up, she got the matching earrings.
She got herself a set of earrings in a sudden splurge.“Do they do anything weird?”
“The silver matches your hair, and the icy blue matches your eyes.”The attendant grinned.“They have a confidence spell on them.”
“Ah.Well, that won’t hurt anything.”
“Just don’t pick any fights or go for tacos.I know whereof I speak.”
The mage-smith chuckled.
She paid for her purchases and left with her friends, stopping to get some non-alcoholic cider, and then they returned to watch the next dance exhibition.This time, she stayed with the ladies, and they watched as the booth assistant from the jeweller was there, dancing and skipping and twirling.
They remained together when the dancers went to grab folks from the audience, and when the male approached Anna again, the assistant pulled him to a different part of the crowd.Anna exhaled.
Amy knew she had a serious frowny face on, and she wished for a moment that she was the type of girl who could be swept off for a dance, but first, she had been one of the unchanging, and then she had changed too much.There wasn’t any middle ground.
