X-Post from Pillowfort: First Fic Prompt for Elfebruary: Lights & Fires

Alright, my first post for Elfebruary. A bit longer than I intended it to be but so it goes. Bindlesticks has been living in my head a couple of years now, so there will probably be more of her.

Lights and Fires


The advantage and disadvantage of being a mutt was that all manner of magics that were only supposed to effect one specific kith or the other still thought that Bindlesticks counted. As she wandered through a valley between a world where nothing had ever lived at all and a world where the dominant form of life were spiders the size of oversized SUVs – neither of which particularly seemed promising to Bindlesticks – a billow of what looked liked fireflies washed down the valley side and over her. The tiny twinkling lights surrounded her in a halo and there they paused as much as tiny twinkling dancing lights ever do, the halo spinning around her like she was the galactic center of their thousand-thousand stars.

Bindlesticks reached out to feel the dancing swarm and they brushed like an electric buzz over her fingers and through the twining ochre-brown branches of her arm. She resisted the urge to shake free of them and the buzz settled into a tickle that drew out her slow laugh. She stretched out her other arm, letting them swirl around and through her. She decided she liked it. She could be the tree at the center of their universe feeling the tickle of them. So she wiggled her rooty toes into the earth, settling in to be the galactic core for a while.

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Now that my leg hurts and I'm not entirely sure that my pvc pipe is even a little crooked, I think I have determined that all the guys shoving their knees into pipes and torquing them around to 90 degree angles are either

A) Significantly stronger than me

B) Lying about the difficulty of bending pipe with just a fancy spring.

So, assuming it is not raining and I can find it, I think it's time to bring the heat gun to the office and try to bend my piping that way. I've got these big windows that face empty space anyway, I should use them for more than just admiring the train as it rushes past. Just have to be aware of ventilation. Maybe hold my breath or something XD. As long as I don't burn them, I don't think the PVC gives off that much chlorine gas.

At least my fancy spring should still be good for keeping the pvc from kinking or otherwise deforming so much when it bends.

I suppose I could also be extra lazy and just have everything square but where's the fun in that?