The iridescent and translucent sheen he had achieved on these few pieces was perfect...and fastening the thin wire along the edge of each piece for stability was a very....VERY delicate process...and required the most amplified level of magnification from his monocle. Even then, however, he was tempted to administer a couple of charms to his eyes and the device itself for extra focus. The one thing that stopped him from doing so was that the last time he had performed such enhancement enchantments on himself...he had fallen asleep with them still on and then forgot about it the next morning and gone about his day with the magic still in place and the MIGRAINES and EYE STRAIN that had come from that had been horrendous.
Maybe next time. He ought to be able to do at least one of these without ---
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Karleigh's sudden appearance and his hyper fixation were a match made in Hades, his hand slipping while he applied a very precise heat from the tip of his wand and...well...next thing he knew, his wand was poking right on through the rice paper thin alloy and swinging from the tip after being caught on the wind of his exhaled gasp.
Devastation erupted all over his face and anger curled his fingers. Ruined...RUINED...his piece was RUINED.
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...you couldn't have waited like...five more minutes before saying something?" he snapped somewhat rhetorically. Karleigh was kind, one of the few older female students he felt comfortable around, and did not deserve his salty tone...but in the moment he felt it perfectly warranted.