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WHAT in person
WHERE Heavenly Grounds
WHEN 75!!

[So how do you feel about getting into the holiday spirit? Because with all that wine around from the Bingo victories someone's put a sign up outside Heavenly Grounds today advertising a ~holiday party~ There's festive decorations with mulled wine, hot toddies, spiked egg nog. You name it, it's there to get you plastered.

And I guess there's cookies and fruit cake and stuff too, but who needs food when there's drinking?]

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It's a fun effect.

[flattered, and the sparkles all glitter brilliantly at once]

Anyways, I brought you a small something that might make the mortal drinks kick a little better.

It is.

[ dips his head slightly and then there are tiny golden glimmers in his hair in a more subtle version of what kei did ]

You brought a gift?

[gives him a thumb's up, very nice]

Remember, uh, what I told you about fairy wine? I couldn't make that, so it uh, isn't alcoholic, it's just like, an ingredient... but super rare. 0% alcohol, 100% magic.

[ pause ]

You distilled magic?

Distilled... No, uh, more like, I scraped it... off the ground? Clean ground. Grass. I promise it's clean, it's fresher than the 5-second rule.

[ what. what????? ]

May I...?

Oh, uh, yeah, right, sure. Here.

[pulls a small jam jar out of his pocket and offers it over. it's empty except for a few drops of water, but the lid is on tightly and there's a white cord knotted around it for an extra seal]

Oh my.

[ how’s it feel when he takes it? ]

Yeah, presentation isn't great, but reuse-recycle, y'know?

[the white cord is doing a decent job of muffling it to where most of the magic that can be sensed is just Kei's on the seal, but there is some power inside. pure wild magic, as ephemeral and delicate as the water droplets carrying it.]

[ loops his own magic around the jar, glittering golden runes that shimmer briefly as he probes carefully at the seal without breaking it ]

Kei. This is incredible.

[his seal is simple: untie the knot and the seal is undone. but if it's cut or torn or cheated... the magic will be totally loosed, and it'll just be a damp jar]

Well, uh, it's all yours now. Just uh, be careful with it? It's got a short shelf life.

How short do you mean? Is this—could you teach me your methods?

Short like, uh, if you treat it like it's special, it'll stay special. If you treat it like it's just water... it's gonna be just water.

Um. And I cannnnn teach you, but it's a lot of uh. Timing? But more meditative than like, set an alarm. This uh, batch, is first morning dew collected off the morning frost.

There’s no fear there, then. I know full what what I hold.

[ reaches out, slim fingers brushing lightly against kei’s jaw ]

I said I would teach you what I could; I’d ask you do the same for me. Would you?

Uh, yeah, absolutely.

Thank you.

I've never taught anybody uh, magic things, like not anybody older than a kit, but I'll do my best.

We learned our craft differently so, together, we may be able to expand both our repertoires.

Oh! Ohh, yeah, yeah that's a good angle.

If you are willing, of course.

[yips]

I am!

Then I’d much appreciate it.

Have you, uh, gone into the Woods much?

On occasion, yes. Not very often, though, as I spend much of my time here. What of it?

You're going to be seeing a lot more of it through my lessons.