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[raptorcanaria]

Dinah comes up from the garage, wiping grease off her hands onto a rag, which she leaves with the bar in exchange for an egg cream. It's not really a fair trade.

She's dressed for shop work: hair pulled back from her face, dirty jeans and a Green Lantern T-shirt that's stained from where she's wiped her hands as she went.

Go on, ask her if she can recite the oath.

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[makesthings]

"I've done that, but I also work best at night. My sister gets annoyed at me when I forget State Dinners because a project's working."

[raptorcanaria]

"State dinners?" Dinah repeats. "Wow, and I only have to worry about opening my store."

[makesthings]

"Oh yes, my family kind of rules and protects the Old Kingdom."

[raptorcanaria]

"And magic, and gadgetry," Dinah says. "And I thought my life was full."

[makesthings]

"I'm the only one in the Old Kingdom who combines magic and making things this way. Yes, we're always busy,"

He didn't see his parents that much growing up and still doesn't because of all there is to do.

[raptorcanaria]

She nods. "I get that," she says. "My friends and I spend a lot of time fighting supervillains. Never a quiet day."

[makesthings]

"My mother and father and aunt do most of that. My mother's the Abhorsen and fights the Dead and my aunt is Abhorsen-in-Waiting while my father is king and my sister is the Heir. I'm Wallmaker and prince, so I do more building than fighting but I know how to."

[raptorcanaria]

"I don't know what any of those things are," Dinah says.

[makesthings]

"My mother fights the Dead since necromancers are a danger in the Old Kingdom, my aunt helps her and learns from her. Wallmaker means that I make things, there hasn't been a Wallmaker in a couple of centuries. Sorry, my world is odd."

[raptorcanaria]

"Hey, it's no odder than mine," Dinah says. "We have aliens and mad scientists and metahumans on top of magic users."

[makesthings]

"Oh good, sometimes it seems like mine gets a lot of how does that work looks."

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah shrugs. "Every world's different. Some are more different than others."

[makesthings]

"Very true, that's how Milliways works."