quietmounds | (no subject)

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WHAT what you want
WHERE where you want
WHEN Day ""135""

[The rain has cleared, but it appears to have left some people with a case of the sniffles! The magic sniffles. Even if you've never been sick a day in your life, you might not find yourself immune. Then again, maybe you have a terrible immune system and you're fine. I'm not the magic sniffles police.

Symptoms May Include:

- runny nose
- sore throat
- fever
- thinking you're going to cough or sneeze but actually what comes out is A BURST OF THE TRUTH
- waking up in someone else's bed
- joint aches

At least the sketchy pop-up pharmacy at the mall has a special on tissues and nyquil?]

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. . . mm. Lonely? I didn't have parents or a family. I was raised in a school that cut you off from your family if you did have any. Most of the kids didn't.

School for what?

Magic.

So does that make you a, uh, a sorcerer?

[Strange has told her wizard isn’t the preferred term]

Yeah, more or less? There's a lot of words for magic-users. The Institute calls us "practitioners." Anybody not 'official' is called a witch.

But you’re official.

I was.

You rather you weren’t?

I'd just consider myself a bit of a renegade at this point.

Yeah? Sounds like as things stand that makes sense.

It's a bit of a mess.

You want to talk about it?

. . .

Mm. So . . . I ended up accidentally getting involved in the death of a lot of people, including someone I cared for a lot.

...Sorry to hear that.

And I have the power to reverse time. So.

You do that often? Turn back time?

Not here.

Would it make much of a difference here?

Well . . . I don't know. I haven't wanted to try it out for a number of reasons. Other than little things. Those do work.

So no broken glasses, stubbed toes?

Right, I do fix those. I repair objects, i can heal small injuries.

Ever do anything fun with it?

What kind of fun . . .?

I don't know. You're the one with magic. Just seems unfair to be able to do all that and not have fun with it somehow.

Hah. I was never taught to have fun? I mean, I'd try sometimes when I was a kid, but Wren would always get anxious and scold me, so I stopped using my magic for 5hat. And now . . . I don't know. It feels like I'd be tainting anything nice.