yeah that happens if you turn into a vampire

cross_and_bow

"Yeah, that's fair."

jellyinthemix

"I really wish I could be more help."

cross_and_bow

Sigh. "Not your fault. Unless you've been making wishes around demons."

jellyinthemix

"I try to avoid that."

cross_and_bow

"Good habit."

jellyinthemix

"Yes."

cross_and_bow

"I guess I'll just. Sit her down when Charlie's not home. Tell her."

jellyinthemix

"That... seems like it might be best. I don't know. I don't have the answers here."

cross_and_bow

"Yeah, I'm just - in case I have been mindcontrolled, instead of it being everybody else, seems like it might be worth the extra sanity check."

jellyinthemix

He nods.

cross_and_bow

And she goes to talk to Soph.

jellyinthemix

And Giles continues futilely researching possible causes for an extraneous sibling or a comprehensive memory deletion.

keyed_up

Soph is in the library after school the next day, subdued.

jellyinthemix

Well, that's awkward.

"Are you all right?"

keyed_up

"Sorta? Uh, Bella says you can't, like, analyze me or anything, but I wanted to make sure?"

jellyinthemix

"I'm not even sure what I might try to analyze you for."

keyed_up

"Being a - something? Like, you can tell if somebody's a vampire, can you tell if I'm a human in particular out of the kinds of non-vampire?"

jellyinthemix

"I could try a few divinations and see what I turn up..."

keyed_up

"I mean I dunno if it's useful but it'd, I dunno."

jellyinthemix

"Would you like me to?"

keyed_up

"Yeah."

jellyinthemix

"All right then. Have a seat."

He spends some time fussing with Latin chanting and a quartz crystal and a bowl of water.

The water fills with a bright green glow. The quartz crystal glows in the exact same shade, brighter and brighter, and then shatters into dust.

"...I don't know how to interpret that," says Giles.

keyed_up

"Um. Did I break your quartz? I'm sorry I broke your quartz. What does it mean that I broke your quartz."

jellyinthemix

"At a guess, it means powerful magic," says Giles. "Powerful magic tied in some way to the colour green. But that hardly narrows it down, because we already established that powerful magic would have been necessary to delete you from Bella's memories or introduce you to the universe... I'm sorry that was so inconclusive."

keyed_up