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She is sitting in the library, studying. It's her most common pastime, by hours; spending time with her sister is more enjoyable but Jaromira prefers to socialize more broadly and Katarzyna would only get in the way. This is better on net; the two of them share a room, so it isn't as though her sister's time is entirely hogged by the other girls who call this boarding school "home." Or at least "prison." Katarzyna doesn't mind it, though; the school library is excellent, and basic manners and care for the books has endeared her to the librarian to a sufficient degree to lubricate the interlibrary loans process when there's something she wants to read that they don't have.
Kanimir and Jaromira in Fabulous
"Because the school felt obligated! Also, I didn't know the way, and wasn't at the time confident enough in my flying speed to gamble on being able to make it between when classes let out and when the meeting started."
fabulous_ones
"First to the clock tower, no contact no magic but messing with aerial fluid dynamics is okay?"
Katarzyna's wings aren't quite as fast, and she's only been doing this for a few days. She's probably going to lose. But she's going to have a lot of fun trying anyway.
Katarzyna lands beside her, breathless and grinning.
"I took wings as soon as my starscape came up just because they're always enough and I wanted magic more than anything but they're truly wonderful of themselves!"
fabulous_ones
"I didn't wanna get too far into the weeds of mental mayhem so I considered doing even less, bare minimum, pointy ears and such, but wings are so practical, so I did that and very, very minimum cosmetic cleanup - plus hair and makeup, those don't seem to affect things the same way."
fabulous_ones
"That actually depends how you do them! If you repigment your skin in first layer that gets you points, if you do it with ink in layer two that doesn't. I don't especially want tattoos but Xander's working on a heavy-duty ensemble that could incorporate them."
"Oh, good--I gave myself a tattoo on my back after I had gotten the wings, while my sister was troubleshooting my outfit, just for extra magic. I prefer not to have my mind altered but also prefer extra magic."
fabulous_ones
"Fortunately apart from 'don't have acne, why would you even do that' magic does not seem to care much if you change a lot as long as it's enough."
Giggle. "I was fortunate enough not to be especially overburdened with acne prior to my ascension to magical girlhood anyway."
fabulous_ones
"Me either, but when I looked at myself and saw an optimization problem I found more things to tweak than I would have guessed based on my previous level of satisfaction with my physical characteristics."