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Peter grinned as he waved at everybody. "I know a lot of you were gone last week, so I didn't want you to come back to anything too serious. I thought we could use this week to engage in the time-honored tradition of heckling. Complaining loudly at the screen, throwing popcorn - or anything non-damaging - at it, and so forth. Since I understand you just spent some time in ancient Greece, our movie this week will be a well-known one that's set there - sort of - and is known for having a great cast, one of the original, influential special effects creators, and a decent budget, and despite all that being pretty awful."

He shrugged and gave them a sheepish grin. "Go to town."

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Like a god! Or an ancient Greek.

Amaya Blackstone

Fenris, with Fjord in his pocket.

There's plenty of popcorn today, so there's enough to eat and to throw.

Amaya worked up a good popcorn-appetite in the shop today, so she might be a little reluctant to give up any for the screen, but she was willing to keep an open mind about it until she saw just how bad the movie actually was.

She liked complaining loudly at the screen, so the fact that Peter was straight-up encouraging it out of them this week was a little more exciting for her than she'd care to admit.

Here was Fenris, attempting to see if Fjord would eat popcorn.

The answer was no. Not even a little.

"Come on, you have to eat something," Fenris muttered at him.

He didn't know much about snakes. It didn't even occur to him that they only ate every few months.

Heckle away! It's pretty bad.

....when was it supposed to get bad? Amaya kept waiting for it to get bad, but from start to finish, she pretty much was thinking this was one of the greatest things they'd been shown in this class so far.

Because Amaya was terrible, really, but it had monsters and fighting (not very good fighting, but still!) and gods and magic, so it all felt pretty familiar and...normal, really, though she didn't much care for the whole damsel-in-distress parts, that was the part she easily found worthy of the most popcorn throwing, but did anyone honestly expect Amaya to go into a movie with a mechanical owl in it and not be completely charmed and inspired?

A mechanical owl! She could make one of those so easily, and she was absolutely positive she could do it a million time better, more smooth and lifelike and at least 50% less annoying, too!

Looks like it was going to be another late night at the forge again.

He's here!

Peter. Peter had said he used magic. Fenris padded over to him. "Peter, a moment?"

"Sure." Peter offered Fenris a bottle of water. "Can I help with something?"

Fenris politely took the bottle of water. "I hope so. Fjord is a snake. Summer said it might be the island. I'm worried it's maleficence at work. Would you have any way to.. tell?"

He was uncomfortable asking, but if it would help Fjord..

"I don't want him stuck like this any longer than necessary."

Peter thought about it. "I can check and see if there are any spells on him, if you like. Summer's probably right, though. It happens pretty often around here. I spent a while as a bat once."

Because the island thought it was hilarious.

Fenris was decidedly nonplussed. "A bat? Why?"

Then he shook his head, "Apologies if that's rude. I would not like to suddenly find myself in animal form. Especially not a reptile at this time of year."

He reached into the pocket and waited until Fjord wrapped around his arm, removing him. "I thought at first Fjord had found a snake in Greece and put it in the bed as a joke. That.. does not appear to be the case."

"Legends." Peter waved it off. He eyed the snake. "Fjord? Do you understand me like this?"

Fjord heaved a sigh and gave another extremely exaggerated nod.

"He understands," Fenris offered, "He just can't talk."

And apparently didn't like being held so far off the floor, if that tightening around the arm he was doing was any indication.

Peter nodded. "Okay. I'm going to cast a spell to find out what sort of thing this is, if there's any outside influence. It won't hurt, but you may feel a bit of a tingle. Is that all right?"

Another exaggerated nod and a look at Fenris that might've been 'why are you like this' if snakes had expressions.

Fenris, helpfully, booped him.

Fjord hissed at him.

Peter sighed. "You do know he can bite you, right?" he asked.

It was a rhetorical question.

"Okay, stay there, Fjord." He took a deep breath and closed his eyes, then opened them, reached out, and drew symbols in the air around the snake. They glowed blue for a moment, flashed, then faded away.

"Yes, but then he'd have to taste me," Fenris pointed out with a small smile, "and he can't exactly brush his fangs. He does have them, though. Little ones."

Fjord stayed where he was. He seemed more curious than anything.

Fenris, on the other hand, tensed entirely. He knew it was coming. He'd asked, and Peter had very carefully explained what he was doing before he did it.

It was still magic.

It wasn't blood magic. It wasn't magic like anything he knew magic to be. Nothing pulled at the Lyrium burned into his skin. There was no buzzing, no pain.

The tenseness faded quickly.

The spell finished, and Peter lowered his hands and shook his head. "The only outside influence I can find is the island," he said. "The good news is, it's not malicious. The bad news is, there's probably nothing we can do but wait. Sorry."

"That is better news than if it had been malicious," Fenris admitted. "Waiting, we can do. Thank you for checking."

It was odd to feel relief at the news. Not malicious magery, no reason to go hunting the mage who'd done it. No excuse. He found he hadn't really wanted one and that left him feeling overall a little bemused.

Fjord wound his way up Fenris' arm and draped around his shoulders. His tongue flicked at the screen. Fenris glanced at it, "At least you didn't turn into a super bitchy gorgon. I'd have been very put out at you if I'd woken up a statue."

"You're welcome," Peter said. He shook his head at Fjord and offered, "I was a minotaur once. It was a weird weekend."

I debated between this version and the remake, but the original is so much more amusing (even if the remake does have Mads).

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