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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:36 am
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Mila didn't have the best memory really, but it was a lot better than she thought. That, or the whole fire festival was really burned (ha) into her mind, because she was suddenly recognizing a fair amount of people in the crowd. They were surface level things, but they'd always eventually click after the fact, usually when it was too late, that oh, she knew them from that.
So, when she was scrutinizing another individual with that same oh, where do I know them from thing, she made herself come from the realization a lot sooner.
"Ummmmmm— Excuuuuse me?" She sidled up to Alexis, a little awkward, but very friendly, "Do I know you?"
Another mental note: the magical community really liked parks, and getting out and about, or whatever. Alexis sure looked different with the short hair, but the anklet was what drew the connection full circle.
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 5:08 pm
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Mila blinked, "Oh." She wasn't expecting them to be so... outright about magic. Was that why they had the anklet in the first place? Gosh. "N-No, no, nothing like that! I just... I dunno." She looked to the ground for a little bit, "After that whole ordeal, I think I'm good on the magic stuff for a while. Is it okay if I sit here?"
She was already sitting there.
"But if you can't do magic, then how were you there?" She tilted her head, "I thought only magical people could. Y'know. Be... on the other side. Anyway, I only came to ask how you were. Is that silly? I mean, sure, I don't know you, but—" She shook her head, "—it doesn't mean I'm not concerned. It was kinda scary... I'm Camila by the way."
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 5:53 pm
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"Nasir! He was the boy with the cute squirrel." She smiled, apparently happy to have a common friend. "Who's the Spinel Lady? She sounds really powerful if she was able to take that from you... but I guess if she's dead..." The smile on Mila's face melted into a frown, "Magic sure seems to be a magnet for death, doesn't it?"
She was watching Alexis' burned arms curiously.
"Surely there'd have to be some way to get it back, right? I mean... the way it was explained to me, magic can do anything, so..." She fumbled with her hands in her lap, "Oh but, I don't really know that much about magic, so I shouldn't be talking. If it wasn't for the little spell I was able to cast back then, I still wouldn't believe I was capable myself..."
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 6:40 pm
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"Oh my god," Alexis sighed, air hissed out through their teeth; they sounded annoyed but not actually mad, "I'm not even wearin' this for anythin' I did, christ. Has anyone told you about the world-jump a bunch'f us did back in November?" To be fair, it was probably pretty weird if you only thought about murder as an abstract concept, and not your own neck and your own teeth - and Mila was so gentle, so fidgety, like a bird first learning to fly. Maybe she was too gentle for this. Maybe a lot of them were.
"What've you heard about all this in general, actually? I've been, uh." They swallowed. "Little bit out of the loop since April, but I can try t'fill you in."
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:54 am
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Alexis breathed in. Breathed out. The way they looked at Mila was nothing short of pity.
"Okay, so - a lot of us are from a world where magic wasn't a thing? We all developed it after comin' to Ashdown, eventually, but it wasn't - magic was fake stage s**t. Rabbits in hats, sleight of hand. I developed mine a year ago against a helldeer, not back in high school, what my records say. Then the principals, the people who made the cage, locked magic away, made the Spinel Lady out of a ******** innocent's body - " They swallowed. "All three of 'em got killed and the world broke. And we fell in on Halloween."
Alexis stopped, for a second, and waited for any questions Mila might have.
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:25 pm
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"And that," Alexis groaned, "is why someone else should've explained this t'you before it was my turn, because I'm ******** s**t at this. No, not like that. Imagine -" they hummed, a fierce little note, trying to figure out a concept that made sense - "okay. Imagine you're standin' in front of a mirror. The you in the mirror - if they were a person, they'd be just like you, right? But in reverse, kinda. It's kind'f like that. Does that make any sense?"
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