mayfield_rpg | 1st Spare - What Will I Do Without the Internet?

[Action; 5722 Cunningham Lane]

[There's a moment of shock when she wakes up, but realizing there's no immediate danger, the sensation passes. In any case, this is a strange situation.

Examining her room and area, she can't find any of her possessions. Was she kidnapped? This doesn't even seem like Japan though... and at such an important time too.

Oh, well.

In any case, Nico is wandering around the house calmly scoping the place out, though her quick movement belie some of her concern with the situation]

Hello? Anyone here?

[Phone]

[The first thing heard is a rather bored monotone voice of a young girl:]

Ah, oh no, what a frightening witch's barrier I seem to have fallen into.

Just kidding. It's pretty obvious this is something else... so who else is here? I don't really think I'm special enough to warrant kidnapping just me, so are the rest of you girls here? This is certainly an unexpected twist.

...I can't believe I'm using a phone with an actual dial on it.

[Action; Around Town]

[There's a young teenage girl being harassed by a pair of drone boys around her age. The reason? Rather than a dress, she's wearing shorts and a hat that clearly got swiped from some drone boy's closet. While the drones call her a tomboy and childish insults for not dressing like a girl, she just stares off with a bored look on her face.]

...you're really kind of annoying, huh?

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I see... That has been known to happen, from time to time, to magicians of my own world.

Really. So magicians from your world can turn into things like that?

To answer your question... a witch's barrier is the world they create to exist in, no longer able to exist in normal space. [With a few exceptions] It's also how they trap their victims.

A pocket dimension, then?

You could call it something like that.

They can still curse people outside to entice them to enter, or move the barrier around, so they're very dangerous, especially since most people won't recognize a witch's barrier until they've already walked into it.

And this sort of magic is, by nature, limited only to those who have become... well, let's use the term "corrupted".

[...]

I guess you could say that. Well, in my world, all "witches" are this kind of corrupt monster. Those who use magic for the side of good are the cute and wonderful girls called "Puella Magi".

We don't quite make the distinction in my own world.

I'm guessing in your world, the distinction isn't quite as literal so much as how you use magic. Well, to be fair, there are Puella Magi who aren't very nice either. Some even attack other Puella Magi.

Witches though... you can't even think of them as really being people [anymore].

Good and evil are subjective and, above all, human terms. These "witches" sound as if they are beyond those terms. I've no place to judge them.

How nice of you.

I'm not exactly hasty to pass judgment myself, but a being born of curses that exists to hurt others and spread misery is something I'd consider "evil".

Are you human?

For your intents and purposes, the answer's probably "yes".

Species is not subjective. Are you or are you not human?

[She doesn't feel like discussing that particular fact yet, and considering she can't find her soul gem, it seems to not be the case anyway for the moment]

Sure.