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Laini Gracae-Ryans
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Originally Posted by Felixir  Well. If ever there was a moment to clutch one's pearls.
Ugly? If wands had ears, Zeke would be covering up this one's right about now. Not... that they had feelings in quite the way a person might. No, it fell to Zeke to do the emoting on their behalf, usually. Though he wasn't actually offended, or hurt, only taken slightly off guard.
After a pause, he allowed a smile, but didn't put the wand away again, despite the look of horror on the girl's face. "I'm sure," Zeke said, not unkindly. "And, you know, trying out the wands is another way to of collecting information. If this one doesn't choose you, it helps point us to the right one."
Of course, if it did, then she would admittedly be stuck with what she had deemed to be an ugly wand. Then again, if it was to be hers, then the ugliness ought not to matter (though, Zeke reflected to himself, he could say this with the kind of experience and maturities that an eleven-year-old was more likely to lack).
He offered up the wand again. "Sure you won't try it out?" If push came to shove, Zeke would, of course, summon the measuring tape back over. He couldn't promise, however, that it would take kindly to being asked to redo its job, but he'd just have to try and soothe its ego later, if necessary. So maybe she shouldn't have called the wand ugly. For all Laini knew, the shopkeeper may have made the wand himself. She did feel a little bad about that, insulting him that way if that were the case. But she couldn't help herself. The words tumbled off her tongue before she had the chance to stop them. It was better this way though, in the end. Maybe he'd give her a different one to try.
......
Or not.
Despite his assurance, Laini was not so convinced and the look she gave him certainly said as much. But she relented (only because she knew this wand wouldn't work for her). If he wanted a data point, she'd give him a data point that told him that the wand for her was the tooootal opposite of this ugly one. "I mean, fine, I guess," she shrugged, as if to tell him she was only doing this since he kept insisting (and not because she was in pursuit of furthering her own interests now).
Stepping forward, still skeptically, she reached into the box and took the ugly wand in hold. Oh. If it felt nice (which it didn't!!!!!), she didn't show it. Instead she contorted her face into a deep frown and held that, thinking of dead jarveys. She kept this sour look on her face even as she waved her wand around, showering silver flakes over her person. Under any other circumstance, she would have jumped up and down at showing such a divine sign of magic, but she was still thinking about dead jarveys so she quickly placed the wand back in the box and pushed it to the other side of the counter towards the wandmaker.
"Nope, not for me! Next wand please." A pretty one this time, maybe?
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