[ Izumi doesn't get a dignified entrance, because why would she? Her life has been hectic since the day she agreed to direct the Mankai Company and this is no different.
No. Izumi doesn't get to simply step out of a mirror and arrive in a new world. She rises, spluttering and coughing, out of a pool of water in the middle of the city, having been distracted by her reflection in a puddle in the courtyard of the dorms.
She shivers in the cold night air, soaked through to the bone, and carefully steps onto dry land, narrowly avoiding catching her foot on the lip of the pool edge. ]
( What on earth...?! )
[ If you're one of the few people out at this hour, familiar face or not, she'll try to flag you down, dripping water with each wave of her hand. ]
Excuse me! Excuse me!
— the goblin market;
[ The market is a beautiful, busy thing, reminding her of festivals back home and giving Izumi a nice distraction from the head-spinning strangeness of arriving in a new city and being told she is now capable of magic. She passes some of the stranger stalls, the ones offering oddly coloured potions that have her frowning sceptically at the claims even as a little voice in her head reminds her that this isn't any stranger than arriving here in the first place.
It's the seller offering a sparkly necklace — something which looks almost antique by Izumi's standards — and talking about how it repels evil that finally gets her to stop, watching the way it glimmers in the light. ]
It's pretty! [ If Yuki was here, he'd likely have a whole field of criticisms for her, but he's not, so Izumi can imagine how she might look with it on. Or— ] Can I try it on?
[ Izumi, darling, that's probably not a good idea. ]
— wildcard;
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izumi tachibana / a3! / witch / ota