The Alternity Re-Read: December, Year 1

[alt_moderator]

We're up to December already in our re-read!

Here's the link to the pdf file: December

As before, there is no need to avoid spoilers in the comments.

(Question for the group: We are coming up on several months where we logged a lower number of posts. Do you still want each month to be its own post or should we combine months (i.e., Feb-Mar instead of Feb, Mar) when the post count is about half the larger / longer months? I don't mind either way....)

Comments

[gwendolyngrace]

Speaking of Sally-Anne, this is the first instance of her playing an oculist:

And then on the potato farm there was a man who'd lost an eye, he
wanted me to re-grow it for him but I knew I couldn't do that. I don't
know if even grown-up wizards can do that but I don't think there's a
spell for it. The socket was all bare and horrible looking and he said
what really bothered him was how it looked and if I could possibly
make him an artificial eye that would be good enough. So I took a
glass marble, and I made it bigger, and then I tried the colourchanging
charm to make it look like an eye. And I don't know why it
won't work on my clothing I got from the Strettons, it's all still grey,
but it worked perfectly on the eye, I got it to match his other eye and
everything. He popped it in and looked in a mirror and said it was
perfect.

Did you remember that and use it to come up with her later internship opportunity, or was that something you went back and found and decided to use, or was it just a coincidence?

[naomikritzer]

I think Denise came up with that internship; I'm not sure if she was at all inspired by that bit, or if it was just an obvious intersection of Healing arts with magical crafting.