Most high schools are more or less the same once you get beyond things like which mascot is on the wall and how strict they are with their rules.
Gossip is one of those near-constants. The current rumor spreading around is that there is a real ghost that wanders along a certain stretch of bike path in a state park, some evenings.
"My dad actually hired her once," one girl claims, "She used to be Terrana Hastings, that healer person. How creepy is that?"
"It's... If you unwind enough at once, you have a chance to end up like I was. Or a wraith, or a golem. It's definitely possible to be unwound entirely in a fight. You recover when you sleep, but unwound dreams tend to be nightmares."
"Mental predisposition, outstanding issues. Simple ghosts are most common by far. Oh, elementals, you could be one of those. I'm sure you heard about New Orleans ten, twelve years ago?"
Nod. "Yes. That's part of why the Spirit Association tries to keep Spirit Bearers socialized. Um, what else, what else... Oh, usually we're still fertile. Only slightly fertile, low chance, the science is iffy, but if a Spirit Bearer manages to have a child they will be healthy and minimal-complication and absolutely non-magical."
"—I think I'm a bit young for that," she says, the corner of her mouth tugging up.
"Yes, well, it's kind of a permanent decision. So you need to know."
She nods. "Yeah, I'm fine, I'll have forever. And if it's up to me, so will everyone else."
"You know, I could probably dig up contact info for people I used to work with. Medical researchers, for example."
"They'd probably want you to study medicine yourself first before doing anything serious with them, but yeah!"
"Yep. Oh, you definitely want to join the Spirit Association. Networking is good if nothing else."
"Not always. It's by Spirit Bearers for Spirit Bearers, not by Spirit Bearers for the good of all mankind."
"Maybe you can. Anyway, all this can wait at least until tomorrow. What do you want to do until cooking at Elodie's?"
"...Oh wow, what movies are even out, I won't have even heard of any of them."
"Sure, let's go do that. Popcorn!"
Terrana picks something that looks like a comedy, preferably without excessive drama or violence. A Disney would fit the bill pretty nice, actually.
And a movie is watched.
Terrana seems to enjoy it quite a bit.
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