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Alli's out of Lethe's Bramble again. She found a reference to a potion- almost like a memory purge but backwards, it's a memory aid. But she keeps getting it wrong, and all she has to show for it is a lack of potion ingredients and distinct difficulty remembering the last three books she read.
She planned for that, at least; they're not school books or anything. But she wants to get this potion right,and more importantly, she wants to have it done before exams. So today she can be found in the Magic Box, digging through the herb selections.
"Ugh, least organized spices ever," she mutters to herself.
witch_perfect
witch_perfect
Alli grins. "I make no promises. It just looks like your sister and I are doing different stuff, so I thought maybe. But! It's not very hard and it's fun. It's supposed to be pretty easy to learn without an invocation, too. I'm just not there yet. Here, see?"
She poses (unnecessarily), says "Nitidi!" and sweeps her arm through the air. Sparkles follow.
She poses (unnecessarily), says "Nitidi!" and sweeps her arm through the air. Sparkles follow.
witch_perfect
"As far as I know? The Latin's required. The arm wave isn't necessary, I guess. But if I don't move it, no sparkles happen? Since it's a spell for "sparkles follow movement". The rest is just me thinking magic is really damn cool."
cross_and_bow
"Okay." Bella gets up to have more room for her arm sweep. She repeats, "Nitidi." She sweeps her arm.
Nothing happens.
"Correct my form?"
Nothing happens.
"Correct my form?"
witch_perfect
Alli shrugs. "There isn't form. It's just- an incantation. It might just not work? One of my books was written by-" she puts on a Snobby Scholar Face, "-by an Expert in the Field of Magicks Who Tragically Lacked The Power To Himself Become a Practitioner." She reverts to normal. "Or something like that. But old person talk for 'knowing how to cast spells does not mean you can cast them', anyway."
witch_perfect
"Wicked!" Alli beams. "So, we have different books. But they're not incompatible or anything, thank all the gods."
keyed_up
"At least not as far as basic little light spells goes. This one's cute, I like it. Where did you start?"
witch_perfect
"My sister left some old books lying around. I found them when she moved to college and took her room. They were mostly little things like that one. Say something, see cool but mostly useless effect, try the next one. Good for beginners who are skeptical that Magic is a Thing, anyway."
keyed_up
"We've just been going by stuff in the library here and at the Magic Box more recently. It's better than school stuff because Bella will do all the annoying notetaking and reading for me and just tell me what to try."
witch_perfect
"What kind of spells are you into? I couldn't even come up with five things that use quartz, let alone ten."
cross_and_bow
"This book," says Bella, producing a book. "But the interesting one is the protection blessing. I guess the one to remove pests from the home could also be useful but unlike the protection blessing you can't just call an exterminator."
witch_perfect
She peers at the book. "Can I look? I've never cast a protection spell. My life's not really protection-spell-worthy."
keyed_up
Soph passes her the book. "I like this one. It's easier to follow than some of the others. I wonder if there are actually a bunch of kinds of witches and only the basics overlap in places?"
keyed_up
"I'm trying to be versatile. I've barely started, what am I supposed to do, decide that I want to do divination and nothing else forever? And Dad doesn't get hurt that much but if he does it would be nice to fix it."
witch_perfect
"I guess. Scrying's kinda fun, though, that was how I figured out the Magic Box was legit."