Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:15 pm**

"Well, that's... curious," Samantha said as she went over some paperwork at the coffee table.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:17 pm**

"Hrm? What is?" Nailah asks, walking into the room from the kitchen, stopping behind Sam and looking over her shoulder.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:19 pm**

"You are apparently insensitive to pagans and their rich cultural heritage."

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:22 pm**

"Please tell me that isn't what I fear it is..."

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:25 pm**

"Bit of effort went into this. It's on parchment. The handwriting... would make even the most florid calligraphist blush and... there's even a wax seal at the bottom."

She held up the document in question briefly.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:28 pm**

"She's wearing a pointy hat, Sam..." Nailah begins to explain.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:29 pm**

"She's asking that you release a public statement that you do not intend to disparage the storied history of Wicca that carried the bright flame of the goddess through millennia of close-minded oppression."

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:34 pm**

"She can't even tell me which goddess. Her beliefs are a hodge-podge of new-age spirituality non-sense that would make Alistair Crowley roll his eyes."

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:35 pm**

"Well you see, she capitalized both 'The' and 'Goddess' in this case. It's also underlined twice."

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:43 pm**

"All I did was call her by the name that she's signed up for classes under and ask her to not wave candles around at the Point. I'm already putting up with her in class. You want to see the dozens of pages long love-letter to Anne Rice she dumped on me?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:49 pm**

"...love, has this girl ever shown even an inkling of actual sorcerous power?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:52 pm**

"No and that's exactly what I'm worried about. She's naive enough to accept the offer of some of the things that have been slipping through the cracks on occasion."

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:52 pm**

"Perhaps, perhaps not. If she already thinks she's on to the real deal..."

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:00 pm**

"Well she thinks the 'Nexus of Magickal Energies' is somewhere else so it doesn't really matter, but I'm not publicly encouraging her non-sense."

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:02 pm**

"I'm just saying, love. She's harmless."

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:04 pm**

"Probably, yes. Just supremely annoying."

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:04 pm**

"And we have to teach even the annoying ones."

"Do you want me to talk to her?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:07 pm**

"I honestly doubt it's going to help, but I suppose ignoring this isn't going to work..." she says, nodding at the parchment.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:08 pm**

"I'll try and make it painless, aye?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:11 pm**

"It's probably better, because I don't know how long I can keep myself from not trying to scare the valley-girl out of her."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:37 pm**

"Is it bad that I find this adorable?"

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:41 pm**

"Yes! Yes it is!" she objects, though she can't help but chuckle faintly.

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:48 pm**

"It's just an amusing mental image."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:50 pm**

"You have no idea how obnoxious she is. And it's only made worse by how utterly benign she is at the same time."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:52 pm**

"We were all embarrassing, once."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:54 pm**

"Goddess, I hope I was never that bad. And at least I can point at it and say I was right!"

"Why am I even defending myself..." she adds after a short pause.

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:55 pm**

"Don't ask me," she grinned.

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:07 pm**

"Well even all that aside, she's annoying in class as well. And I just know she's going to complain when I inevitably fail her simply due to her obsession with terrible writers."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:07 pm**

"I didn't think that was in your grading guidelines."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:15 pm**

"Of course not. But that's what her idea of great literature is and she's not exactly shown signs of being willing to budge on her stance for the sake of, you know, learning."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:16 pm**

"Have you considered introducing her to the Romantics?"

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:34 pm**

"I'm not sure I'd want to expose her to Faust." she chuckles. "She has a tendency to take things a little too literally. But I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:51 pm**

"But still, Byron? Shelley? She'd take to them like a fish to water."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:58 pm**

"It's worth a try, yes."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:58 pm**

"Doesn't matter that she likes purple prose, aye? There are more storied examples of it you can get her into."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:04 pm**

"I'm not sure it's the prose she's interested in."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:08 pm**

"With how she worded the letter? It's worth a try."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:15 pm**

"I will, but you go talk to her and see for yourself. Or, you know, read twenty pages of her explaining the genius of Anne Rice having pierced the veil of ignorance to stand up for the poor misunderstood world of darkness and magyck that is clearly hiding behind the boring trappings of suburbia."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:28 pm**

"...you realize you're saying that while being the priestess of an ancient goddess in a sleepy little town in Essex."

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:37 pm**

"I know! That's the worst part!"

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