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"shiro" / sora ([personal profile] succored) wrote in [community profile] middaeg2019-08-02 06:39 pm

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. ]
niespodzianka: (025 •)

courtyard.

[personal profile] niespodzianka 2019-08-03 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ You're a Witch.

Well, great. Geralt's first dry thought is no deeper than wondering why some people have the power to make words audibly capitalized. (Hey, maybe it's fucking magic.) But for all his cranky dislike of the situation, he's also very curious; a natural trait and one ground in deep from his years of what boils down to supernatural detective work. So here he is. Scoping the joint out, bit by bit. ]


Not a bad start.

[ He's quiet when he moves. Not on purpose. Hopefully he doesn't give this guy another stumble. ]
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[personal profile] niespodzianka 2019-08-03 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
Not long.

[ Geralt looks more like an old-fashioned native than a green mirrorbound abductee; his lightweight armor is too well-worn to be something recently acquired to fit in. But he doesn't seem familiar with this place. Gold eyes flick over the young man, considering. His expression is difficult to read. ]

Shield spell?
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in the library

[personal profile] foursakes 2019-08-03 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it wasn’t unusual for monsters to be reading up and studying— some things, she’s found, both could do. strengthening one’s mind from invaders, for one, was a universal practice, and four was here to pose even further: she has around four (haha) books in her arms, only one of them about natural barriers of the mind: seven layers. the rest are charm books, enchantments, transmutations.

she was just a witch, studying diligently as any during her free time. someone doesn’t see her trying to reach for a book on one of the higher shelves, she’s too tiny. the perpetrator bumps into her successfully, and everything in her hand drops with a yelp.

looking quickly at the apologetic man, her startled expression melts, and she ducks her head, almost sheepishly. ]


Oh— oh, I’m sorry. [ shaking her head, shaking her head. ] I was in your way, wasn’t I . . .

[ she goes to pick up the book farthest from them. ]
atouts: (035; ace of pentacles)

library

[personal profile] atouts 2019-08-03 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Childermass has to raise an arm quickly to block the stack of books that comes around the corner at him, though it does stop just short of actually hitting him. That's... startling. More startling is that the stack of books talks— wait, no. There's a person holding all of those. He sees it now, a few seconds of bemused staring later. ]

What in the world are you even looking up that takes that many books? [ No acknowledgment of the apology. Nothing happened, therefore he doesn't find it necessary. ] Surely you can't get through all of them in one day.

[ If anything, he's a little offended to see one man hogging up so much reading material over here. ]
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[personal profile] atouts 2019-08-04 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
That means the same thing. [ Childermass points out, though he also takes a step back and to the side to give Sora room to pass if need be. ] You're trying to figure things out by looking them up. A little too broadly, by the look of it...

[ He will point at one book in particular in the stack. Something along the lines of an introduction to defensive magic or the like. ]

That one, I believe. The one on basic defensive spells.
Edited 2019-08-04 00:03 (UTC)
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[personal profile] niespodzianka 2019-08-04 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ He shrugs, baldric and the two swords over his shoulder moving fluidly with him, barely a sound of leather on metal. ] Guess I am, now.

[ Geralt doesn't sound enthusiastic. ]

I knew a bit of magic at home, though.
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[personal profile] niespodzianka 2019-08-04 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Sort of.

[ .. Possibly unhelpful. Geralt remembers having access to a whole host of magical abilities in the strange shared dream prior to being in this world, and he remembers trying to use his familiar witcher Signs only to have the magic feel different and strange and manifest in extravagant ways. But it doesn't feel alien. Just like a different set of muscles. ]

A shield spell was something I could do. So, like I said, you're not off to a bad start.
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[personal profile] atouts 2019-08-04 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And Childermass is, perhaps, being too bristly. That Sora will try to help him get the book regardless gets him to lighten up a little, at least, even if the book he wiggles out of the stack does happen to be wrong. He takes the book even knowing that and looks at it, if only out of curiosity.

A new library, full of new books of magic, ones he's never seen. He can hardly get mad over it.
]

Universal Spells for the Young Witch. [ He reads the title aloud. ] Ah, no. Not the one I was looking for but... I may actually want to begin with this instead. The universal branch of witch magic sounds like the simplest to start with, judging from what else I've read here.
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[personal profile] foursakes 2019-08-04 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose I am pretty small. [ she says, softly as she fetched another, now closer to him. with most of the books in hand, she holds her’s out to gently take it from him. ] Thank you, stranger— and you are carrying a fair many books yourself, aren’t you?
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library

[personal profile] chosenside 2019-08-05 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Ever since he's been given the run down of this world, Theseus has been spending a good portion of his time reading and trying to adapt to the magic of this world. It's been a rough start and he knows that the road is going to be long for him, but he's nothing if not tenacious. Even if reading all these books is giving him flashbacks to Hogwarts and studying for his exams, it's definitely a necessity. He refuses to be unpracticed and uncertain here.

So, the Auror has a couple of books in his own hands when he barely stops himself from colliding into Sora.]


Oh, hello again. [Theseus can't help but smile slightly at the large pile of books in his arms.] Would you like some help?
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[personal profile] niespodzianka 2019-08-05 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Geralt considers for a moment. The 'shield spell' he knows has different forms, and it seems like the lowest one, that he uses most in combat, doesn't really jive with the way magic works here. In his head, he's aiming for a bigger tier, which is actually the base, here. ]

Huh.

[ He rolls his shoulders and lifts one hand to make the gesture for Quen, because all this magic is going to be routed through things he knows, of course, and for a second, it seems to work. A bubble of pale light glimmers around him and holds--

But then it shatters in a flash, casting intangible magic shards everywhere. Geralt raises one eyebrow. ]
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[personal profile] chosenside 2019-08-06 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Theseus can't help but raise an eyebrow at that. Sora's certainly... enthusiastic about learning, but he wonders how much he's really taking in. Studying magic can certainly can be difficult and it's doubly true if he's unaccustomed to it.]

Pardon me for prying, but how are you coming along with your reading?

[There's at least some similarities between the magic here and the magic at home for him. He just needs to get a feel for it.]
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courtyard;

[personal profile] auftauen 2019-08-06 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[The minor crackle of the magic barrier draws her attention. Crymaria hadn't wanted to linger here, not when she has practicing of her own to do. The hot, tempting energy to cast during the new moon was bad enough: Gun-shy, now, she's hesitant to be around too much spellcasting.

What Sora experiences seems so much like some of the rebounds from unstable energy she dealt with after the snowstorm. Crymaria's own attempts at barriers had taken cast and cast again to feel reliable, though they'd never dumped her on the ground like that.

He's already back on his feet by the time she can walk over, but she still crosses the courtyard to make sure he isn't injured.
]

You didn't hurt yourself with that stunt, did you?

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