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"Sounds like you got caught in the line of fire," Vivi nodded sagely as she set up her notebook to stand like a little easel. It would be easier to Transfigure what was in her head if she had a point of reference and didn't have to keep going back and forth.
She blushed a bit as Kurumi commented on the top she'd designed, and Vivi wondered if perhaps it was a bit too bold on her part. Leave it to her to go from one extreme to another. Taking the end of her braid in hand, Vivi twirled it rather violently as she examined the drawing. "This is surreal, but... when we stop moving, we die. Change is movement, and graduation is change, and I might as well be willing to wear a darn ruffle once in a while in the quest to be a real adult." Or something like that. Funny how decisions made more sense before they had to be forced into words to be shared.
Leaving Kurumi to her own work, Vivi approached her Vivi-quin with renewed determination. She could cut strips to add extra fabric for the ruffles, but she wanted to try it without first. They were supposed to challenge themselves, right? And there was nothing so challenging as making a lot out of a little.
Fixing the image in her mind, she drew the Z-shape across the torso of the Vivi-quin, murmuring, "Summus Vestis." Immediately, the bag shrunk and puckered and split in all the places she thought it should, with some of the plastic near the top slipping down to help create the pretty little green flutter of fabric. It was nearly perfect... the fabric was sheer, the lines were clean, and the cut wasn't ridiculously baggy like her first attempt. Success?
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That's an understatement...I think I might still have the teeth marks," Kurumi mumbled. Lesson learned though: never get between Aspen and Elijah when they were biting each other. Just let them gnaw each other's arms off. Yep.
Attention back on her top, Kurumi wondered about using this spell to make the pendant, but it seemed to be the sort of transfiguration spell that turned things into fabric, right? Maybe things like zippers and buttons would work, but an item entirely out of metal and sparkly bits was a bit of a stretch, yeah? At least it seemed that way to the Gryffindor's logic, so a different spell it was. She could still use the trash bag though...probably.
Crumbling it up a bit, Kurumi swished her wand to the left and gave it a soft tap. "
Covadium." The trash bag began to contract from the middle, as if being sucked into a vacuum, until it had formed a black plastic ball. Within a few more seconds, the ball was turning spiky and the plastic turned hard and sparkly until it was the flower broach that she had sketched on her paper.
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Well, I am sure you can pull off ruffles just fine," Kurumi laughed as she placed her broach on the mannequin. "
You know, in Japan...kimonos are a sign of growing up. You wear one with long sleeves that come down almost to the ground while you are young and you wear your first proper one when you come of age....sort of like you and ruffles."
Kurumi took a step back to look at her mannequin and then glanced at Vivi again. "
I think I'm done....you?" Call this assignment finished and get out of here before one or both of them broke out into nervous rashes over fashion design, yeah?