i see the hazy sense unfold [ OPEN ]

[succored]

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. ]

Comments

[niespodzianka]

Monsters are more diverse than people. By a lot. But that's why witchers are as trained as we are.

[ He makes a low noise that implies a laugh. ]

Once in a while, somebody'll be that dumb, yeah.

[succored]

And what do you do if that happens?

[ 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.

[niespodzianka]

I use my best judgement and handle the situation. What do you want to hear, that I mindlessly kill targets? [ A little dry - like that's what people seem to believe of him, despite being a fully functioning sentient individual, himself. Maybe if Sora's spoken to Lambert-- but no, probably not. And fate's after his younger brother's ass, making him a 'monster', here. ]

What do you do, at home?

[succored]

[ Sora shakes his head, no, he hadn't had that thought about Geralt specifically. ]

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. ]

[niespodzianka]

[ He's never heard it called a 'convenience' store before, but that tracks just fine; specialty stores are a rarity in garbage medieval fantasy worlds, only appearing in well-off cities. Otherwise everything you need is at the only tavern in town, usually. ]

Sounds like less of a headache than having to learn magic.

[succored]

Yeah. It's easy. [ He shrugs, a small, almost half-hearted movement. ] But I want to learn it. I'll try to not fall again.