"Yes," he says, and has to forcibly close his mouth before the ma'am comes out after it. This is good, comforting, familiar, after a very peculiar sort of day. He hangs his hat and ties on his apron - and washes his hands.
Just some good, simple work. He needs it; it's grounding.
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Date: 2017-01-09 12:59 pm (UTC)We don't have to. Mr Shelby said everyone uses these. I should - practice.
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Date: 2017-01-09 01:02 pm (UTC)Alright.
Do you feel a change already?
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Date: 2017-01-09 01:06 pm (UTC)Not really. But I didn't feel different - before.
[He's spent his whole life trying to dissociate from his magic. Stronger or weaker, it's always been torment enough to know it's there at all.]
...I heard what the Admiral said. Have you...
Are you magic?
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Date: 2017-01-09 03:22 pm (UTC)There was... I told you about breaches, right? When we all think we're different people, in different worlds?
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Date: 2017-01-09 03:52 pm (UTC)Yes, you did.
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Date: 2017-01-09 10:13 pm (UTC)I can do the same thing I could, back there. During that breach.
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Date: 2017-01-09 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-09 10:23 pm (UTC)Manipulating particles would be the best word for it, I think. It feels like I can move fluids, or change structures if I try hard enough.
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Date: 2017-01-09 10:32 pm (UTC)Like...changing water into ice?
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Date: 2017-01-10 08:23 am (UTC)It's strange. [She doesn't know if she likes it. She's so used to depending on herself, her wits, her body. This feels like cheating.]
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Date: 2017-01-10 08:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-10 08:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-10 08:37 am (UTC)Do you think you'll really have it forever?
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Date: 2017-01-10 08:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-10 08:48 am (UTC)Oh.
...Quentin turned me into a fox.
[He knows that's a nonsequitur but a fox, Elizabeth.]
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Date: 2017-01-10 09:01 am (UTC)He turned you into a fox? How did that happen?
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Date: 2017-01-10 09:05 am (UTC)He asked me to visit his room. He has his magic back, and -- he wanted someone to be a fox with. So I said it would be alright.
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Date: 2017-01-10 09:06 am (UTC)Would you like to tell me about it in person? I don't like talking on the phone like this for anything important. [And it sounds important.]
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Date: 2017-01-10 09:09 am (UTC)I don't know that there's very much more to tell, but - alright. [He does prefer speaking in person, he's finding.] Where would you like to meet?
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Date: 2017-01-10 09:54 am (UTC)[If Elizabeth were a warden, 90% of her strategy would be 'put them to work.']
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Date: 2017-01-10 10:02 am (UTC)Oh - yes, I'd like that.
[He's there not long after, a few minutes at most. It's not as if he has far to come.]
Elizabeth...?
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Date: 2017-01-10 07:39 pm (UTC)[She opens the door for him, smiling, and she puts a friendly hand on his shoulder, pulling him in.]
You made it. Hi.
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Date: 2017-01-10 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-10 08:00 pm (UTC)"Hang your hat on there," she tells him, indicating the peg the aprons are hanging from.
"Tie one of those on, and we'll get to peeling potatoes."
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Date: 2017-01-10 08:18 pm (UTC)Just some good, simple work. He needs it; it's grounding.
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