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i see the hazy sense unfold [ OPEN ]
Who: Sora and new acquaintances!
When: Throughout
Where: Around the city, the Coven library.
What: Deliveries for Precogstichin', searching for mysterious animals in the city, and studying.
Warnings: Probably nothing, but will edit if anything comes up.
delivery for—
[ Fortunately, growing up and constantly traveling around a semi-claustrophobia-inducing city means Sora has a decent sense of direction and a good memory for buildings. But to use that memory, he has to learn first.
So he might be knocking on a few wrong doors. ]
Hi. Corset delivery.
in the library—
[ Having a practice only once a week isn't too often, but it does mean Sora has an actual schedule to follow that isn't intermittent shifts at a convenience store. He's trying to study as much as he can outside of class to make sure that he, and by extension Tora, are safe and prepared for whatever other weird stuff this world is going to throw at them.
And that means reading.
After some searching for words he can actually comprehend, Sora finds some books he thinks he can handle and carries them to a table. After only a few practices, he's struggling and visibly so. Magic isn't something he'd ever believed in.
Later, when he goes to return them to their places in the shelf, he's still looking down at the words when he rounds a corner and nearly walks into someone. ]
Oh. Sorry. [ He's just holding a stack almost up to his nose. ]
in the courtyard—
[ Sora's trouble with magic is manifesting in a more noticeable way, later in the Coven courtyard. He wants to protect himself with a barrier in theory. But what actually happens is the small amount of the magic in the barrier being redirected and shoving Sora back.
He falls on his butt with a quiet yelp. Embarrassing, but definitely not the most embarrassing thing that's happened to him. He starts getting up and dusting himself off. ]
When: Throughout
Where: Around the city, the Coven library.
What: Deliveries for Precogstichin', searching for mysterious animals in the city, and studying.
Warnings: Probably nothing, but will edit if anything comes up.
delivery for—
[ Fortunately, growing up and constantly traveling around a semi-claustrophobia-inducing city means Sora has a decent sense of direction and a good memory for buildings. But to use that memory, he has to learn first.
So he might be knocking on a few wrong doors. ]
Hi. Corset delivery.
in the library—
[ Having a practice only once a week isn't too often, but it does mean Sora has an actual schedule to follow that isn't intermittent shifts at a convenience store. He's trying to study as much as he can outside of class to make sure that he, and by extension Tora, are safe and prepared for whatever other weird stuff this world is going to throw at them.
And that means reading.
After some searching for words he can actually comprehend, Sora finds some books he thinks he can handle and carries them to a table. After only a few practices, he's struggling and visibly so. Magic isn't something he'd ever believed in.
Later, when he goes to return them to their places in the shelf, he's still looking down at the words when he rounds a corner and nearly walks into someone. ]
Oh. Sorry. [ He's just holding a stack almost up to his nose. ]
in the courtyard—
[ Sora's trouble with magic is manifesting in a more noticeable way, later in the Coven courtyard. He wants to protect himself with a barrier in theory. But what actually happens is the small amount of the magic in the barrier being redirected and shoving Sora back.
He falls on his butt with a quiet yelp. Embarrassing, but definitely not the most embarrassing thing that's happened to him. He starts getting up and dusting himself off. ]
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No. Is that like a mage? [ It has the word "witch" in it. ]
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[ And a mutant, he doesn't say; still deciding whether or not to blurt that out. Though it's obvious he's not completely human, anyway. The eyes give it away, and make him look like he should have a monster designation. ]
We learn little spells. Not unlike the basic shit here. It's always a pain to figure out something new.
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You seem like you know... how to learn it. [ At least, based on his instructions. But Sora hasn't seen him do his own magic, and he asks the question on his mind after only a brief pause. ] Are you hunting monsters, or are you a monster here?
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[ GERALT.. ]
They've decided I'm a 'witch'. [ Even with his rough voice, it's evident he's adding another layer of dryness, there. A definite lack of innate respect for this whole system, even though it seems to be necessary, given the dangers. ] And even at home, sentient beings aren't on the table for murder. It's not applicable here.
[ Other witchers may disagree, and he's had his hand forced on his principles before, but overall: Geralt doesn't hunt thinking monsters. Just the mindless killers. (And asshole humans who deserve it.) ]
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But I heard that the Monsters here can end up going crazy. [ Admittedly, he heard it from a self-proclaimed monster hunter, and he doesn't know how much he should trust her opinions. ]
What would you do if that happened? Kill them?
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[ Humans. 9_9 ]
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Does the framing work? You know what monsters look like, right? Do they just—pay you and lie to you?
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[ He makes a low noise that implies a laugh. ]
Once in a while, somebody'll be that dumb, yeah.
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[ At least here they can see who the monsters are and make guesses on how dangerous they might be. So far Sora isn't scared of any of them more than he was scared of dangerous humans, though the magic also helps. ]
Monsters here are... just like people. Or they act like them.
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What do you do, at home?
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I work at a convenience store. [ Wait. Do convenience stores exist here? ] Like, a store that sells... the stuff people need every day.
[ He's pretty sure he saw a store that only sold eggs and chickens earlier. ]
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Sounds like less of a headache than having to learn magic.
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