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She stares into his eyes, and focuses like the book said.

"Legilimens."
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Feral is wondering idly what reading someone's mind is like, and noticing that her eyes are very pretty, and she has a bit of dust caught on an eyelash, and he wonders if blinking would mess up the spell, and how long he should go without it if it does.

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Reading someone's mind is to curiosity like candy is to hunger. Instant gratification, packed as dense as possible, like his eyes are a direct funnel to his thoughts, like - as is in fact the case, as long as she holds eye contact - all she has to do is want, and she'll have.

(She'd tell him that blinking would mess up the spell, but as new as she is at it, she thinks talking would also mess up the spell. She can always do it over again.)
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...Feral giggles. He doesn't know why, exactly, but something about the sensation of her reading his mind feels funny, like a joke he's just on the edge of getting.

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Bella blinks first. The spell ends.

"I didn't expect it to work the first time," she remarks. "Maybe I just got lucky. I do need eye contact to sustain, but the book says later I'll only need it to establish."
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"That was fun!" says Feral. "Wanna try again?"

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"Yeah! This time I'll see if I can do memories, I'm supposed to be able to do memories, what should I look for?"

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"Cooking," he says immediately. "Look for me cooking with the elves, it's super cute."

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"Okay!" She blinks a few times, reestablishes eye contact, and says again, "Legilimens."

She looks. It's like squinting, to get memories instead of just surface thoughts, but -
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- there he is, measuring ingredients into a mixing bowl as the kitchen elves chatter about proper pancake technique.

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She grins, and watches till her eyes itch and she has to blink again. "Neat. Now I know how hard it is when you don't know any Occlumency," she says. "What if you try to fight me off without any Occlumency practice, want to try that?"

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"Sure!"

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He tries to just - push her away, but in his head.

It pretty much doesn't work at all.
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"Hmm," says Bella. "Is there anything you don't want me to see - I mean I won't look for it if you really don't, but anything you could be more energetic about shooing me away from?"

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"...Not... really," he says. "Well, kind of. But most of it's stuff you probably don't wanna see either."

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"...Oh. Yeah, there's that. Okay. So, the Occlumency books aren't very - stepwise - but they talk about having a clear mind, and about moving like water away from the attack, and one of them mentioned meditating. Can you work with that or should I invent something with more detail for you?"

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"I can try to work with that!" he says.

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"Okay! Lemme know when you think you have something. I'm gonna go outside and play with my new broomstick," beams Bella.

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"Sure," shrugs Feral. "See ya!"

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"Bye!"

And Bella runs off and plays with her new broomstick. She decides it needs a name, and goes with Terpsichore, to match Euterpe.
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