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This door was supposed to lead to the hall closet with the cleaning supplies, but Bella doesn't see any good way to mop up spilled soup from the kitchen floor. "Extraplanar studies students," she mutters, stomping into the bar in her nice useful boots. If she takes notes on this place she can probably get extra credit somewhere for it. She goes up to the bar, and notes the lack of bartender. Maybe they stepped out for a minute.
castmyown
Someone else opens the door, and stares at the place that is very definitively not a library. He might have thought that he'd made a mistake, but it's the school library.
It has to be magic. Darren is extremely excited about magic. In about two seconds, he looks equivalent to a kid in a candy store, despite being in high school.
He steps inside and looks around, grinning madly.
It has to be magic. Darren is extremely excited about magic. In about two seconds, he looks equivalent to a kid in a candy store, despite being in high school.
He steps inside and looks around, grinning madly.
subtly_artistic
Bella looks over her shoulder. "Hey, do you know where we are?" He doesn't look old enough to be in college - she could be wrong and he is anyway, he could be as young as he looks and the door thing is extending beyond MU, she's not sure.
castmyown
"I have absolutely no idea where we are!" he replies, brightly. "This is supposed to be the school library, but you know what, I'm not complaining."
subtly_artistic
"For me it was supposed to be a closet. Uh - what school would yours be?"
castmyown
"Forks High. What closet, are you in Washington, or should I start giggling madly about magic?"
castmyown
"... State that's part of the United States of America. One of fifty. Are you extremely foreign and from a weird place that has never heard of Washington, or are you not from Earth?"
subtly_artistic
"...Earth, the element, or Earth, something else? I've never heard of the United States of America."
castmyown
"Earth is the name we creatively picked for our planet. Because we're awesome at naming things. See: the Sun, and the Moon."
castmyown
Darren snickers. "What about geography, do you have seven continents? Or - actually, wait, do you have more species than human?"
His planet does, but he's not going to freak her out with 'I am a magic flying deer' from the get-go.
His planet does, but he's not going to freak her out with 'I am a magic flying deer' from the get-go.
subtly_artistic
"...Uh, yes? To the species thing; there's either five or eight continents depending on how you count some of them. Does yours not have non-human people? I can't decide if that sounds boring or like a really convenient solution to racial tensions. ...Do you not have non-human living things, what do you eat, just conjured food or do you get by on rings of sustenance?"
castmyown
"Sentient species, sorry, we've got plants and animals. We also have non-human people, I'm one of them, hi. We're technically in hiding, it's kind of terrible."
castmyown
"To be honest, I'm not quite sure? Probably because humans would freak out, and a lot of us are represented really badly in mythology. Plus they might - not think some of us are people, because I don't look anything like this in my actual form."
subtly_artistic
"How not-anything-like-that, like, are you more like a dark elf, or like a yokai, or like a dragon - please don't be a dragon."
castmyown
"Oh, definitely not a dragon. Those are supposed to be extinct, anyway."
And, because he has room in here - he shifts to fullform. Then he is a grey-blue winged deer. "See? Totally harmless," he says. "Not a dragon at all, in fact. And yet, I look like a creature to be hunted or eaten. So it's possible people might get confused about my personhood status."
And, because he has room in here - he shifts to fullform. Then he is a grey-blue winged deer. "See? Totally harmless," he says. "Not a dragon at all, in fact. And yet, I look like a creature to be hunted or eaten. So it's possible people might get confused about my personhood status."
subtly_artistic
"I'm not going to hunt or eat you. Dragons aren't extinct where I'm from, though."
castmyown
"Thanks, I'd protest against being eaten," says Darren dryly. "Kind of tempted to geek out about dragons, but - those sound bad where you're from?"
subtly_artistic
"They - vary, but I wouldn't want to be alone with one in a bar, just in case."
castmyown
"That makes sense. What's your magic like? Assuming you have some. I have some of mine, but I'm trying to learn more and it's really, really annoying how no one will teach it."
subtly_artistic
"I only know high-school level arcana so far," says Bella. "And I'm not even majoring in it, so I couldn't tell you much more if you'd caught me with a college diploma in hand. And I know no divine magic at all. Why won't anybody teach you magic? They could, you know, charge tuition, it's a racket."
castmyown
"If I knew that I might be a bit more forgiving of it. Basically if you screw it up, bad things happen, it's kind of volatile. But, that's why you make good schools so people don't screw it up experimenting to figure out what works on their own."
castmyown
"It's kind of frustrating, yeah. I am teaching myself magic, and plan to publish things once I'm any good. So there's more to go off of than, 'Don't ever do magic ever, not even if you require it to make the items that let you go outside in public with opposable thumbs, and the knowledge to make more has been lost.'"