Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

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No power meant no TV and no Darkest Night tonight, which was a shame, since this week's episode had a whole lot of Lee Nicholas. Tony was in the common room anyway, looking for entertainment. The candles had enough light to read by, but he wasn't that bored yet.

He ended up looking in the kitchen cabinets for snack food. Popcorn sounded good, but he was pretty sure if he tried to pop it over the fire, the paper bag would just burn up.

Marshmallows! There was a bag of them on one of the lower shelves. Tony found a long knife to use as a stick and settled down by the fire to roast marshmallows. He was bundled in his winter coat and scarf. Sure, he was Canadian and used to the cold but that didn't mean he liked it.


[Open! With marshmallows!]

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"One from Arthur raving about boxes and telling you to polish his saddle, one from someone thinking I'd left them a weepy message and one from," he coughed, "uh, well, a guy asking me to test his new bed."

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"At least no one asked you to be tied up for it," Merlin said, though now he was the one trying not to laugh.

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"Hey, that could be fun!" Tony argued, though he was bright red. "But I don't even know who it was."

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"I'll leave that sort of thing to you," Merlin said, raising a hand in surrender there.

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"Sorry. TMI?" Tony's cheeks were still flushed. "Um. That means 'too much information'. And, uh, so - cold weather we're having here, huh?"

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"Prat," Merlin said, pushing at his shoulder and laughing.

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Tony grinned and pushed back lightly. "You have any interesting classes this week?"

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"Magical creatures on Friday," Merlin replied. "But nothing until then."

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"What kind of creatures are you learning about?" Tony asked.

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"Last week we learned about a small lizard called a chameleon," Merlin said, terribly impressed.

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"We have those in my world!" Tony said. "But I don't think they're magic."

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"I don't think they were here either," Merlin admitted.

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"What do you have where you're from?" Tony asked. "Anything cool? Dragons?"

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"There... have been dragons. A griffin once. Though it tried to eat me then," Merlin added quickly.

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"Okay, mythic monsters not as cool when they eat people," Tony said.

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"I did see a unicorn once." Oh, Merlin. That wasn't impressive, it was flaunting virginity.

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Tony was impressed, though. "Really? Awesome! We had one here as a student for a while, but I never met him."

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"I heard that," Merlin said brightly. "One that could talk?"

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"Yeah," Tony said. "Could the one you met talk? Do they usually?"

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"It didn't--" Have any time to do so if it could. "--I don't think it could, no."

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"Oh." Tony was a little disappointed. "Maybe it just doesn't speak our language?"

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"Maybe," He admitted. "There was someone who was a keeper of the unicorns, though. So maybe he just spoke for them."

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"Huh." Tony said. Then he grinned. "You know, a few years ago, I didn't even believe in magic and now we're talking about real unicorns!"

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"Everyone knows it exists back home," Merlin said with a small grin. "And it's really only in Camelot it's illegal. My village was just beyond the borders of it."