[the answer catches the boy a little by surprise, since that's not the answer he usually gets when he asks that question. if he has any further questions, he does not ask them, but instead follows the gesture to the display table in the middle of the room.]
Oh, the Celrym glass? It's-- [the young man laughs, then, almost a little embarrassed to be talking fondly about jewelry, but.] It's actually really slick. We just got them in yesterday. Here, let me show you--
[and, maybe anxious for something to do, the boy swings around the case to go walk to the table and pick up one of the necklaces. as he continues explaining, Robin is visible near the door, half-hiding his mouth with his hand and trying not to look too amused at Tek's first choice.]
It's a kind of glass that we can only find after a burn storm. One hit just last week, and we were able to scrape this up out of the pavement. Something about the lightning super-heating the minerals in the ground causes these... hundreds of tiny facets that are almost impossible to see.
[as he moves the necklace, the lights hit other jewelry made of that same glass, causing more flecks to refract back in whites and soft blues. the boy crosses to a stained-glass window, closes it, and then holds the tear-shaped necklace up in front of it.
it is dazzling--the stone seems to catch up every scrap of tinted light from the windows and scatter it over the floor, the table, even the ceiling, sending rippling flecks of blues, reds, greens, oranges, and purples over all of them like a sea of multicolored stars.
the boy, who has seen this before, still sounds a little proud of the piece.]
Some folks think it's a little too much for jewelry, but I think it'd be nice to have just as a decoration. [he pauses, suddenly remembering another factoid:] The glass is named after one of the Nine, something about the lights bringing solace just like they did in the stories... or something.
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Oh, the Celrym glass? It's-- [the young man laughs, then, almost a little embarrassed to be talking fondly about jewelry, but.] It's actually really slick. We just got them in yesterday. Here, let me show you--
[and, maybe anxious for something to do, the boy swings around the case to go walk to the table and pick up one of the necklaces. as he continues explaining, Robin is visible near the door, half-hiding his mouth with his hand and trying not to look too amused at Tek's first choice.]
It's a kind of glass that we can only find after a burn storm. One hit just last week, and we were able to scrape this up out of the pavement. Something about the lightning super-heating the minerals in the ground causes these... hundreds of tiny facets that are almost impossible to see.
[as he moves the necklace, the lights hit other jewelry made of that same glass, causing more flecks to refract back in whites and soft blues. the boy crosses to a stained-glass window, closes it, and then holds the tear-shaped necklace up in front of it.
it is dazzling--the stone seems to catch up every scrap of tinted light from the windows and scatter it over the floor, the table, even the ceiling, sending rippling flecks of blues, reds, greens, oranges, and purples over all of them like a sea of multicolored stars.
the boy, who has seen this before, still sounds a little proud of the piece.]
Some folks think it's a little too much for jewelry, but I think it'd be nice to have just as a decoration. [he pauses, suddenly remembering another factoid:] The glass is named after one of the Nine, something about the lights bringing solace just like they did in the stories... or something.