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[fireandashesagain]

Brenton is sitting on the floor by the fireplace completely unbothered by the heat. Instead he's concentrating on a small mold in front of him and a lump of gold. Holding it in his hand, the gold slowly starts to melt and then turn liquid. The liquid is then poured from his hand into the mold which he then sets on the ground. After that he takes a few shiny stones from a pile he's got and presses them into the mold.

He's already got three pendents made and cooling. They are not, as might be expected, little phoenixes, but instead some sea turtles.

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[thenewblack]

"That has to be almost entirely cheating."

[fireandashesagain]

"What is?" He tilts his head up and looks at her.

[thenewblack]

"The lack of safety gear, the way you're melting gold by staring at it, you know. Little things."

[fireandashesagain]

"What good would safety gear do me?" Brenton asks. "And I'm melting it from my hand, not by staring at it."

[thenewblack]

"I know it wouldn't do you any good," says Artemis before she more or less drop next to him on the floor, "That's part of what makes it cheating. If it would actually help, then it'd be reckless."

[fireandashesagain]

"It's not my problem you can't do it. If you were a phoenix you could do it too, so it's not cheating," he says loftily.

Then he picks up a finished pendant and shows it to her. "What do you think?"

[thenewblack]

"It's very turtlish?"

Especially for something a bird is making.

[fireandashesagain]

"Well yes, they're turtles."

Turtles are good eating! And just because he's a bird doesn't mean everything he does has to deal with birds.

[thenewblack]

"Why turtles? Why pendents even?"

What is the meaning of life?

[fireandashesagain]

"It's something to do. I learned a bit of a lot of everything over the years. And I like turtles. They're good eating."

[thenewblack]

"Careful who you say that to. I've heard rumors that one of the barmen used to be a turtle."

[fireandashesagain]

"Well they are. Not that I would eat any that were walking and talking."

[thenewblack]

"Especially not here. They'd probably be customers stuck in the wrong shape."

[fireandashesagain]

"Considering how easily it is to get food here, I'd be really silly to try and eat people here."

[thenewblack]

"You say that like someone who's never seen people be silly."

[fireandashesagain]

He laughs. "Oh, I know. People can be very silly. And I can be very silly. But when it comes to food, I'm rarely silly."

[thenewblack]

"That's almost reassuring."

She eyes the small pile of pretty stones.

"What are you using for decoration?"

[fireandashesagain]

He picks up a stone and hands it to her. They're just tiny semi-precious gems that are bright and glittery. The sort of thing a bird would be attracted to.

"Just these. They're shiny."

[thenewblack]

"I'll give you that much," she says.

Huh. Not bad, but nothing special. Besides the craftsman. She hands it back.

"You doing it for a special occasion?"

[trickyfire]

[[so ooc it burns but it wouldn't let me send you a message and there weren't any posts on your journal I could reply too and I had to tell you how exciting it is that there's another phoenix! they would be confuzzled if they met. We are mostly at sws tho. but! phoenix! <3 ]]

[fireandashesagain]

((Well that was dumb of DW. *makes a post on his journal for contacts.* But yes! It would be very confuzzling. I trickle around SWS though I haven't with him yet.))

[trickyfire]

[[It truly was. But he should putter around sws with him! I am there constantly lol]]

[fireandashesagain]

((I will post something with him on there later, then and it will be awesome! Right now, however, I have to go to class.))

[trickyfire]

[[yay! I understand tho. I am at work as we speak. Just... in the slow period >> ]]

[fireandashesagain]

((I won't tell anyone. Look! A Phoenix appears! ))