Sternly Worded.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:15 pm

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

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:19 pm

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

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:22 pm

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

by **Samantha McManus** » 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.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:28 pm

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

by **Samantha McManus** » 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."

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:35 pm

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

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:49 pm

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

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:52 pm

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

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:02 pm

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

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:04 pm

"Probably, yes. Just supremely annoying."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:04 pm

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

"Do you want me to talk to her?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:08 pm

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

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:37 pm

"Is it bad that I find this adorable?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:41 pm

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

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:48 pm

"It's just an amusing mental image."

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:52 pm

"We were all embarrassing, once."

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:55 pm

"Don't ask me," she grinned.

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:07 pm

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

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:16 pm

"Have you considered introducing her to the Romantics?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:51 pm

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

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:58 pm

"It's worth a try, yes."

by **Samantha McManus** » 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."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:04 pm

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

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:08 pm

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

by **Nailah Weaver** » 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."

by **Samantha McManus** » 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."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:37 pm

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

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