"Skan heard from some people that some bullies thought it was funny how careful I am with shields, but we didn't know who or whether they'd do anything."

Nod. "I see. I suppose I understand why you didn't report it, for something that vague, it's - not the kind of report we have much ability to act on. I'm very sorry this happened, though." She frowns. Clears her throat again. "Are you, um, feeling calm right now? ...I'm sorry, you look it, just, the usual protocol for taking a report from youngsters who've just had a Gift awaken in possibly-traumatic circumstances includes asking that." 

"I feel pretty okay now. I caught them all. Well, Skan helped."

"He seems like a good friend." 

"He's great!"

Smile. Lasi ducks her head. "All right. This is just for the formal written report. Would you mind giving me your recounting of what happened, in chronological order?" 

"Skan told me the rumors he heard a few days ago. Just now, I was walking - I was actually going to go to the bathroom so please don't keep me here too long - and I felt the first boy give me a hard shove in the Thoughtsensing shield, like he wanted to break it, and I tripped and I set commanded him 'don't', which might make him stop doing anything or might only make him not do Thoughtsensing, I'm not sure, and then the other one jumped out and called me a bitch and he was wearing mage student clothes and he went like this," she imitates his gesture, "and I set commanded him to stop which doesn't let him do much at all, and he did stop but not before a little fire happened, only it turned out I had shields, so I'm okay. And then the other two started running off from where they were hiding and I called Skan over to chase them and he pinned them down and I told them it'd look better for them to not make the guards chase them, and I called my teacher and he was with a patient but I explained and he called the guards over."

Lasi nods and makes listening noises and scribbles shorthand notes on her pad of paper, and then gives Azabel another long moment of sympathetic look. 

"So your first accidental magic that you noticed was a shield?" she says finally. 

"...yes..."

"That is very rare! And by 'rare' I mean I have never heard of it before! The usual first magic shown is fire or lightning, or perhaps shoving objects around with force." 

"Well, that wouldn't have been helpful at all! Even if I attacked him back he'd still have gotten me!"

Lasi tilts her head at Azabel. "You know, I think most teenagers don't get to decide their first use of accidental magic ever based on what'd be helpful." 

"I guess if they did probably it wouldn't be called accidental, but still."

"I suppose you did get several years training your other Gifts, which I'm guessing is helpful." Lasi reaches out to touch Azabel's hand. "I'm sorry. It must have been very frightening." 

"Yeah. It was over fast but it was real scary for a minute."

"Well, it's quite impressive that you both kept yourself from any harm, and avoided any serious injuries to your assailants. Just a moment, I need to make sure I have everything down for your report..." 

Aza experiments with mage-sight while she waits.

Lasi reaches the bottom of the page, stares at the paper for a moment while fiddling with her pen, and then glances up at Azabel. "I've noted down everything you said to me in the report. Do you have anything to add before I sign off on it?"

"I don't think so."

She signs it with a flourish. "All right. That's everything I needed from you." A pause. "...Are you sure that there isn't anything else you would...like to tell me about...?" 

"...can you tell me what to do with the set-commanded boys after me and Lionwind fix them?"

"Hmm - I'd better check in with the others, but hopefully they're already here, and you can just leave them here after for questioning." 

"Okay. What's going to happen to them?"

"I'm not sure, exactly, but my guess would be some remedial ethics tutoring and a month straight of detention." 

"I didn't even know there was such a thing as remedial ethics tutoring! I hope it helps."