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[infourbooks]

[Action: in front of 1486 Kramden]

[Neville is checking the post, not quite sure what will show up this time.

He opens the package and just stares.

Candy wrappers. Droobles gum.

The ones he saved from his mum.

All he can do is stare.]

[Action: Park]

[Neville is bound and determined to be as useful as he can. Things are getting worse. So he's practicing as many charms as he can think of.]

There has to be something else.

Comments

In front of 1486 Kramden

[ooeeooahah]

[ There's a neighbor walking down the street, with an unopened package under her arm. ]

Hey, Neville. You okay?

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[infourbooks]

I...

[How does he even explain the gum wrappers?]

I'll be alright.

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[ooeeooahah]

Normal for Mayfield baseline, then.

[ She looks at the wrappers, and sighs. She can feel his reaction to the wrappers, but not the reason for it. ]

You need to talk about it, I'm here.

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[infourbooks]

It's... not really anything to do with Mayfield.

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[ooeeooahah]

But it's affecting you here.

[ She looks at the wrappers again. ]

Because it's the way they want to jerk you around.

[ Ilsa puts a hand on his shoulder. ]

You are stronger for it, no matter what they think.

Action: Park

[bespell]

Please tell me you're doing fixing charms today. [Lily calls from her spot on the grass, eyeing her bike--lying on the ground on its side--morosely.]

Re: Action: Park

[infourbooks]

I was practicing anything useful, but I can try to get that working.

[bespell]

This is embarrassing, really. Charms come to me so easily, but the bloody brakes on this bike keep breaking every other day.

[infourbooks]

Maybe it's Mayfield being... Mayfield.

[bespell]

Destroying your self-confidence one bicycle brake at a time?

[originalnumber]

Why hello there Neville! Astral actually took it upon himself to sketch the results of a few of your charms strangely enough- flight gives him some nice perspective points. As he hears the particularly exasperated statement of 'something else' however, he looks up from his work.

... "...Something else?" Astral floating over people and drawing them is pretty creepy, stop-

[infourbooks]

Spells that might be helpful here. More than I could think of on the mountain.

[originalnumber]

"Aah- The mountain?" Hnn.

"...I found myself in a desert, earlier... ...Exactly what happened upon the mountain, if you aren't opposed to my asking?"

[infourbooks]

It was a volcano, in the end. We had to run for it. I was able to help a bit but I can't help thinking I could have done more.

[originalnumber]

"Mnnn..." Well. "A volcano is an incredibly powerful force of nature- there is nothing which can stop such an act once it has started. Do not feel as though you did not do all you could; I am sure that whatever you did helped more than enough."

Park!

[thenewnancydrew]

Something else besides, uh, magic?

[ No matter how long she's here, she will never get used to the whole magic thing. ]

Re: Park!

[infourbooks]

Spells I'm not thinking of.

[thenewnancydrew]

Oh. Well, I think you're already well ahead of most of us.

[infourbooks]

That's why I figure I should do anything I can.

[thenewnancydrew]

We're all doing anything we can. I don't think even magic can help us get out of here.

[park]

[riastrad_ridire]

[Lancer would just be watching from a nearby tree, a dark red lance brought up to lean against his shoulder.]

Huh. That sure doesn't look like any magecraft I've ever seen before.

Re: [park]

[infourbooks]

That seems to happen a lot here.

[Please don't be as annoyed as Tiffany]

[riastrad_ridire]

[Quite to the contrary, Lancer sounded interested as he jumped down and landed easily on the ground.]

So how's it work?

[infourbooks]

[That's... a good question]

Well... first you need to be born with magic.

[riastrad_ridire]

That's usually the case. Then what?