"What`cha doing?" Amelia flops down on the moss next to me as I sit by the pond.

"Working on an idea for some party favors. It's based on that quick rune I added to Mittens collar before Riverton." I show her the prototype camera that I'm building. "Just trying to decide if I want it to take plain pictures, or be a bit more fancy. Also trying to wrap myhead around a different approach to storing images.

"What's wrong with those glass cubes?" She kicks her bare feet in the water.

"Nothing, and I'll probably use it for these. But, while the glass is good, I want something that can be re-used. And, if I get this right, then I'll be able to add it to our phones so we can take and send pictures and a lot more." I'm in the middle of working out a solid-state hard drive of some sort. I was botany student though, and not really a techie. I do know the difference between a bit and a byte, but going from that to fully functional hard-drive is gonna take a few steps.

"You're still upset about the phones not being up to your standards." She laughs at me. "You're not going to be happy until they can do everything they could do everything they could back on Dirt."

"Why stop there?" I let out my own laugh and show her my new wrist watch. "Remember my idea for the portable library, and Apricot's joystick? Well, I figured why carry both my phone and the Gameboy?" I double tap the face and a hardlight phone materializes, a button summons my paused Tetris game, a second press and it becomes a gamepad and with the screen projected into the air in front of us.

"Ooh, where's mine?"

"Well, I was gonna make you one, but I got distracted when I thought about adding a picture taker, and that led me to the party favors, and well, here we are." I rub the back of my head, a little embarrassed

"And I still don't have one." She bends forward and splashes me with water, playfully.

"Fine, do you want a watch like mine, or some other type of jewelry?" I display a bunch of women's watches for her to choose from.

"It's like a tiny clock." The smile of simple joy at seeing something new that reaches her lips as she says that makes me fall in love all over again. "I thought it was just a weird bracelet."

"I modeled mine after my old smart watch." I tap the screen and 10:10 shows up in glowing green digits.

"I like this one." She points to a simple watch with a round face, and a rose gold and white ceramic band.

"I'll need your game, so I can copy the high-scores."

"Are you going to be able to shrink one of these down for Apricot?" She asks after handing it over

"It'll be tight, but I should be able to manage." I think about it and nod. "Might not need to though, she's been staying our size more and more lately. She didn't even shrink back down for dinner last night." I focus my 'sight' on where the pixie in question is pounding away at the pinball machine. "We should set aside a day where all three of us stay pixie sized just for her." I say with a happy smile on my face.

"Can you manage that? You said you almost dropped it last time." She looks hopeful and worried at the same time.

"When have I ever not been up for a challenge?" I chuckle. "As long as we stay close to the tree, and you're not fucking my brains out. I should do alright." I slip the newly completed watch on her wrist. "Here, you can also answer calls without having to bring out the phone." I call her and my number shows up overlaid above the hands along with a red and green button.

"What if we want to fuck your brains out?" She licks her lips.

"Then I will just have to pixie up and fucking take it, won't I?" We both collapse laughing at that.

***

"Hey, Sorrel." Apricot says as she walks up behind me. "Amelia said you had something for me. Is it penis shaped? Please tell me it's penis shaped."

I look over my shoulder and smirk before moving aside to reveal the body and tail of a giant dragonfly.

"Yeah... that's a big fat nope." She giggles. "I'm kinky but I ain't that kinky."

"This is going to be my first golem. You pervert pixie." I add as she strokes her hand up and down its tail. "I can make you some sex toys if you want though, can even make them vibrate."

"You're the only sex toy... Wait, did you say vibrate?" Her eyes dilate.

"Hahahah. Yeah, I was kicking around ideas to make me suck at pool, and thought a vibrating cue stick might work." I make the tail buzz in her hand.

"Oh, we will definitely have to play around with that later. Well, not that." She drops the tail with a look of disgust.

"Sounds like fun." I chuckle, thinking of all the different toys I can make for us. I even got bored one night and looked up what silicone is made from, it's a simple silicon oxygen chain. And, if I can make diamonds, I can make that. "That's not what I have for you though. This is." I hold up a tiny watch.

"Jewelry, yay." She shrinks down and puts it on.

"Not just jewelry." I smile at my happy little bride. "Push that button on the side."

She does and a Gameboy pops into existence. "Ooh, it's like what you were talking about the other day."

"That's not all. Double tap the face to get a phone, or..." I Ensmallen myself and point to another button. "You can press this one for something special."

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"Oh, Sorrel." She hugs me after seeing that it turns on a movie player filled with copies of everything I've translated so far. "You are fucking awesome!" She kisses me.

"I know." I smirk and kiss her back. "That was one neat little piece of enchanting too, I had to spectrum shift the... Well, I won't bore you with the details." I say after we separate. "Just wish I was having as much luck on that thing."

"What's the matter, it's just Golemancy, you grab a bug and... Oh." She pauses.

"Yeah, I don't like that Golemancy has you bind the spirit of an animal, so I'm trying to re-create it with runic intelligence, like what I used for the ghosts in Pac-man, only much, much harder."

"You are such a softie, even towards little bugs. That's so cute." She leans forwards and kisses me on the nose.

"Nnn, I'll squish a bug no problem. Even hunting for food isn't that big a deal, but killing people, and that whole soul business. Yeah, I'm a little leery of that." Rather understandable, since I was once nothing but a soul myself. "So, I'm taking a different path."

"Us pixies have a phrase for people like you." My wife's smile is filled with love.

"It's not bug-fuck crazy is it? Cuz humans already have that one." I joke.

"I'm serious." She says seriously. "You're one who travels the way of the thorn. It doesn't matter how difficult the journey, you still find your way safely through even on paths that no other would even imagine taking. What's a little difficulty to a man who broke the universe for love." She glances up at the tree I made for her and our future children, and back to me. "I love you, you bug-fuck crazy man, you."

***

"It's doing it again." Apricot giggles as the dragonfly's head spins around in circles. After 'thanking' me for her gift, she decided to hang around and keep me company while I enchant.

"Dammit, I thought I fixed that." I stop the stupid thing and focus in on the enchantments for head control. "Here it is! This bit wasn't reporting back properly, so it got stuck in a loop. Someone must have distracted me while I was working on that part." I smirk at the still naked woman.

"Oh sure. Blame it on the pixie." She arches her back in an attempt to distract me again. "So, is it ready to fly yet? I kinda want to watch it crash and burn." She giggles again, doing wonderful things to her chest, and horrible things for my concentration.

"Mhm." I have to shake my head to get my focus back. "Yeah, that should have fixed the head cleaning animation. So, we can try for a quick hover now." Since we're still pixie sized, I fly over to her and carry us out of the way of its wings. And, I may have taken some liberty with hand and vine placement while doing so.

"Ahh! You brute." She squirms in my grasp, but not like she's trying to get away. "Hey, watch the vines." She snorts. "The blonde is the only one that likes you playing around back there."

"Heheheh. Sorry, they've got a bit of a mind of their own." I chortle and disentangle us so we can watch the inaugural flight, and likely crash of the shimmering green dragonfly. "Here we go... and there it went." I face palm while Apricot bends over in mid-air, laughing her head off.

The wings unfurled far too fast and sent it careening off its perch to crash right into my full-sized body. Stopping the golem, I then command my body to pick it up and set it back in place before moving much farther back.

"Day 11, Test 37, Configuration 2.0. For lack of a better option, Dummy is still on fire safety." I mimic one of my favorite lines from Iron Man, and set Apricot to laughing again just as she was getting herself under control. "We're just gonna start off with 1% thrust capacity. And three... two... one."

The wings spread out, without issue this time, and both pairs sweep upwards before the front wings flow down and just stop. The back wings function properly a second later, but without the front pair, the insect just bounces up and down a little.

"Now, what's wrong?" I mutter and glance over at my oh-so-supportive wife who's now clutching her sides and gasping from laughing too hard.

...

"Great, now the tail's acting up." I sigh and make the Nth adjustment, and... it stabilizes! "Holy shit. Apricot look." She had sat down to watch Iron Man again a few minutes ago.

"Good job." She looks up from the movie, the explosions still startle her a bit, but she doesn't look away from them anymore. "Think you can make it do more than just hover now?"

"I can try." My face is split by a grin as I command it to move forward, and it does so. "And, stop." It goes back to hovering. "Now, backwards. Ack!" It tries lowering the tail to back-pedal, but ends up flopping over and crashing, again.

"You're getting there." She says distractedly.

"Oh, go back to your movie." I smile at my love. "I'll let you know when it's worth watching."

...

Forward, back, up, down, side to side, turns from tight to loose in all directions. Hovers and glides, take offs and landings on various inclines. Handling the wind, from a gentle breeze to a baleful gale.

"I think it's ready." I say to myself with a smug look, just in time for Mittens to come running up and leap onto its rear wing and drag it out of the air.

"Hahahahah!" Apricot cracks up laughing as our kitten mauls my hard work.

She skipped over The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man 2, and just finished watching Thor again. I think she's got a crush on Chris Hemsworth, as this is probably the twentieth time she's watched it.

"Sorry, babe." Amelia scoops him up a moment later. "Oh, there you are. I thought we were doing the pixie day later."

"Eh, it sorta just worked out this way." I fly up and give her a kiss on the nose. "Lie down and I'll shrink you to join us."

"You two were planning a pixie day? Awwww." Apricot tackles me in a flying hug. "Are you sure you can handle it?"

"Depends how distracted I get." I laugh and slap the still naked pixie on the ass.

"Eek!" She squeals. "Oh, I'm gonna get you for that." She starts chasing after me while.

"Mittens, save me." I dive behind him, and hide in Amelia's cleavage.

"Get outta there. Ha ha ha." Amelia giggles as I squirm my way down her dress. "Eeep, watch your wings. Would you quit goofing around, I wanted to see your golem." She sits down next to my body and I fly out from under her skirt.

"Just let me fix up that tear in its wing." I buzz over to Mittens and scratch him behind the ear while it seals itself up. "And you, please try not to eat it this time, you mighty little hunter, you."

"Mreow." He closes his eyes and tilts his head into the scratch.

"Aww." Apricot sidles up next to me. "I'm still going to get you back later, but that is too cute to interrupt. Now, pixiefy my woman so we can ride around on your little bug."

"Yes, Ma'am." I do so, and the strain hits right away. But, I think I can handle it better this time, now that I know what's in store for me.

"That is never not going to be weird." Mini-Amelia stares down at her full sized body. "Do I have to ride the bug?" She laughs nervously. "Can't I just borrow your mighty steed here?"

"Sorry, babe. But, I think he fell asleep." The little guy is curled up on top of her chest, blissfully unaware. "You've got your own wings now, so it's not like you can really fall anyways."

"And, I promise to keep you distracted if the height starts to bother you." Apricot presses her nude body up against her wife. "And if you're really lucky maybe Sorrel will make some of the new toys he thought up for us." She kisses the blondes neck before dancing back and pulling her into the air.

"Oh, sure." I roll my eyes. "It's not like I'm dual casting my most complex spell right now, or anything. While also test-flying a runic golem for the first time." I add with a put-upon sigh.

"So, no problem then?" Amelia chuckles. "And just what kind of new toys are we talking about?" I quickly fashion a vibrating egg from gold and toss it to Apricot. Amelia's eyes go wide when her wife pushes a button and it starts buzzing. "Oh my."

"I don't know what exposure therapy is like back on Dirt, but I doubt it's half as fun as what she has in store for you." I chuckle evilly and command the dragonfly to take us up.

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