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[teenyoda]

[He might have thought to lock it if he hadn't been so excited with his news.]

Oh my god! Okay, okay. So maybe this place isn't so bad. I got magic. That's apparently my gifty boon thing for getting my ass handed to me by the invading hoard.

[He pauses, blinking and grinning down at the locket.]

I'm actually living a video game now. I feel like I just leveled up. Now all I need's a familiar. But look. Look!

[He waves around a staff, then points the locket at the books that had arrived with the staff, symbols emblazoned on them and looking exactly like what they were; spell books.]

Dude, I'm a freaking magician. Wizard? Sorcerer? I don't really know yet, but I can do stuff. See?

[He'd already poured through part of a book and had memorized one incantation. He repeated it, the tip of his staff glowing before the comforter on his bed caught fire.]

Oh... uh, no. No, shit. No, wait I didn't, hey! Hey! Stop. Finito! FLAME OFF! FLAME! OFF!

[He drops the locket and the staff and goes to pull the comforter off to toss in the fireplace. Have fun watching that debacle.]

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[teenyoda]

Aha! She can laugh.

[Stiles has a little chuckle himself, giving her a wide smile.]

Yeah, he does, and he likely knows it. And I'd tell him to that sourface himself. But I'm used to people who're perma-scowlers not being totally bad guys. Gendry can be a bit of a jerk, but I think he's got his reasons. And he could have just jabbed me in the gut with his sword, but he didn't, so he's not all bad.

[That was Stiles-speak for 'I don't mind him. He's a good guy'.]

[steeledskin]

[ she can laugh. she can smile and sing and dance and play the high harp. but it's better if she forgets she's capable of any of these talents, because there are too many lurking dangers to indulge them regularly.

and so her voice is soon an even tone of politeness and distance. but even so the curiousity remains: ] He could have? How so?

[teenyoda]

Well, I don't mean to say that he would have, but he, ah...

He sort of ran into me trying to practice with a sword for the first time and I sort of suck. So... yeah.

wow my html.

[steeledskin]

Ah. [ a moment of vulnerability. how strange, she thinks. that stiles would bring it up so readily. ]

I suppose you've less need for it. Now.

I do it all the time.

[teenyoda]

Well, yeah, I guess. Kind of a good thing, really, since I'm pretty sure I would have done more bad than good with a sword. Or anything like that, really. Like I said, I'm not really the best when it comes to, um... physical combat.

[bullhorned]

Because you're a stupid, suspicious bugger.

[teenyoda]

Sorry, but I have a very sensitive evil detector gene and it's blipping right now.

[unclebob]

A Terminator is what I am.

[He shrugs. A name is a name to him, merely something that lets people know who he is.]

If you would prefer to call me something different, some here are calling me Angahtar.

[Terminator frowns a touch.]

I suggest somewhere outside. Power like this should be handled carefully.

[teenyoda]

Angah-- Who the hell have you been hanging out with. It's Robby. I'm calling you Robby. Robby the Roboman. There. You have a name now.

[He sees the frown and he rolls his eyes.]

Probably, yeah, but if this place has a library with magic books in it and stuff, which I hear it does, maybe it has like... magic workshops. Places that are warded against anything getting out of it?

[And if it didn't, it should.]

[unclebob]

[This is what happens when you let elves name people.]

As you wish.

[As long as Terminator knows that the name refers to him, he'll generally consent to being called anything.]

They have much power as they have shown. Such a place must exist.

[teenyoda]

[Clearly elves were weird.]

Right. So... maybe there's a workshop or a room around here I can turn into one. Maybe I'll ask someone about it.

[More likely he'd go snoop until he found one.]

[skennen]

Buddy...? [One of so many words that didn't exist in his time. A shame, really. "I'm buddies with George Washington" has a nice ring to it.] My name is Connor.

And someone could be hurt. You could be hurt. This is our captors' doing. You do not hand a man a weapon of such great power and expect him to learn its use on his own.

[He probably wouldn't be half this worked up if Stiles had messed around with another element instead. Water, ice. Nature, even. Plants. If he'd transformed his comforter into a blanket of poison ivy. Connor might have been able to muster up some faith, maybe even some wary encouragement, then. But no, something went up in flames.]

[vazyol]

I understand. [ she knows what it is like to feel helpless, weak, and find strength in something that others fear. ]

[ smiling softly. ] You would aid my dragons and I with your magic?

[showmeyourwreath]

That's the last thing I'd say. I wasn't born here, but there's still a lot that happens that isn't all that much different from what I'm used to. It's really just missing a good shopping district and better cell coverage. Or you know, actual cell coverage.

[She suddenly makes a mildly disgusted face, but it's not enough to keep her from getting a chuckle out of it.]

Yes, because telling them they might make a nice snack is a wonderful way to make friends, isn't it?

[She does go quiet herself for a few moments. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad, even with everything she's worried about.]

Anyway, it's not that. Completely hiding what I am actually does me a disservice in a few ways, and I don't intend to do it forever. I'm just trying to sort of pace myself and gauge things. Even if people might not laugh or run away from me like I'm crazy, not everyone is used to or even okay all this, so I don't want to be even more in their faces about it.

[steeledskin]

...Neither am I.

[ it's spoken a little wryly. as if she knows what she's saying, how she's saying it, and how obvious it already is. ]

[bullhorned]

I don't know what the hell that's supposed to mean. What's blipping? [As in, what is the word.]

[decked]

Yeah, okay. I'll believe it when I see it.

[he isn't buying anything you're saying, stiles.]

Show me something you can do without killing anything.

[teenyoda]

[He snorted. He couldn't help it.]

Really? Because everyone seemed pretty bent on shoving a sword in my hand and telling me to just deal with learning how to use one. Even though I'm more likely to hurt myself than anyone else. This... this is closer to something I might be able to figure out, without hurting myself. Probably.

[Hey, that was because the fire one had caught his eye and been easy to say. If he'd opened it to 'make it snow in your room' spells... that could also be a disaster.]

[teenyoda]

Well, yeah. Why wouldn't I? You're on our side, right? If something goes down, no way am I leaving you and your scaly buddies to getting in trouble.

Not that I'm saying that I'd be the best help offered, but if I can manage something, yeah, I'd try.

[teenyoda]

So maybe you could see if they'll give you some magic pow pow powers and we can figure this out together, huh?

[steeledskin]

I'm afraid I've spent my favour elsewhere.

[teenyoda]

Blipping? Blip blip blipping on the rada--

You know, you make it really hard to explain things to you when you don't know most of what I'm going to use as examples. Just... trust me. Your confidence at the moment is highly suspicious.

[teenyoda]

...

[That was a challenge and Stiles was accepting it. He goes over to the books, picking up the top one and flipping through it, chewing his lip as he looks over the list of possibl--]

Okay. Okay, here's one. Just a sec.

[He picks up his staff and looks at the passage again before reading it. Bubbles erupt from the tip of his staff and he waves it around, bubbles filling the room.]

There, see? Totally non-lethal.

[teenyoda]

Well, next time, then. Maybe when you get back here, we can go over some stuff in the book and see if you can do any of it. Sound good?

[teenyoda]

... You do realize this is a really convoluted way of not answering a pretty direct question, right? Like, just tell me to mind my own business if you don't want to tell me. That's cool. It's why I asked in the first place.