One Moon ℂ Video

[claimyourself]

[A hand fumbles in front of the camera, then pulls back to show a teenage girl who is looking very confused and a bit scared.]

Where am I? What's going on here?

[She looks around her, then back to the camera. Bringing it closer to her face to better examine it, she narrows her unique eyes, one green, one gold.]

Is this some kind of sick joke? Did you do this, mother?

[The last word is spit out harshly. This is so not a happy mother-daughter relationship.]

I don't know what your angle is this time, but I don't want to talk to you. Send me home right now!

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[claimyourself]

I'm... not following.

[eiremagic]

They check in but don't check out.

You're not very smart, are you?

[claimyourself]

[All the sarcasm.]

I guess I missed that day of school when we learned all about roach traps and how to use it as a metaphor.

[eiremagic]

I didn't even go to school and I know that shite, skanger.

[claimyourself]

[Oh, so that's how it's going to be? Lena's been bullied enough, thank you. She's gotten pretty skilled at ignoring people too.]

I can see you're not up for telling me anything else useful. Thanks for what info you did give me.

[eiremagic]

Yeah, here's a bit of advice for you, then. There's a lot of people who'll take it a lot more fucking personally if you fuck up and assume shite than I just did.

Use that fucking meat between your ears, yeah?

[claimyourself]

And there's a lot of people who understand that people mess up and make mistakes. And can accept an apology.

[On screen, Lena's hair starts curling and uncurling, a side effect of her using her powers. Around her the wind starts to pick up.]

[eiremagic]

That was a bloody stupid mistake.

And cut down on the magic, nobody's impressed.

[claimyourself]

Hardly.

[She doubts this person can tell where she's from. She's lived all over and her accent is rather generic. But the second part trips her up. Usually no one notices when her hair curls. No one but Ethan, anyway. How does she know about Casters?]

What?

[eiremagic]

I said cut down on the magic.

[claimyourself]

[For a moment there's a childish part of her that wants to tell this person "come down here and make me," but she holds it in.]

What do you know about magic?

[eiremagic]

Enough to know that magic has a cost.

And enough not to be impressed.

[claimyourself]

[Lena knows all about the costs of using magic. Like how if you want to save someone, you have to sacrifice someone in their place.]

Does-- can everyone in this city do magic, or do they just know about it, openly?

[The wind level stays about the same, and her hair keeps on doing its thing. She's so used to hiding what she is, that she's worried about what the answer will be. Maybe this person with the attitude problem is the only other person in the whole place that knows about magic.]

[eiremagic]

Not everyone. Not even most everyone.

Well they know about it openly when you're being fucking obvious, you know.

[claimyourself]

Then the people here are more observant than the people at home. Which isn't saying much, since they like to stick their heads in the sand.

[She's not completely at ease yet, or ready to start shouting from the rooftops about what she is, but she's less upset than she was, and the wind dies down to a breeze.]

[eiremagic]

I know magic when I see it.

[claimyourself]

Well...

[She's not sure what to say. Telling Ethan what she was has to have been one of the hardest things she's ever done, and he had already seen enough to know something was up with her and her family. This girl just knows from the get go.]

I'm Lena. What's your name?

[Introductions are a good way to start, right?]

[eiremagic]

Eden.

[claimyourself]

So... you said my mother didn't do this. You were brought here too?

[eiremagic]

Half the people here were brought. Some of us have been here a long spell.

Most people last about a year.

[claimyourself]

[Her brow furrows as she tries to hold it together. Eden's giving her good info now, but it seems dependent on whether she thinks Lena's being stupid or not. Okay, she can deal, she just needs to learn all she can and work on a plan from there.]

By last, do you mean die?

[eiremagic]

No. I mean they go home.

If you die you just come back a day later, but dead. Then you're stuck.

[claimyourself]

[Okay, that sounds crazy. Luckily, Lena's used to a little crazy. Her uncle came back from the dead, after all.]

Wow, okay that's-- yeah. Uh, so is there like a purpose to this? For why we're here.

[eiremagic]

No one knows.

[claimyourself]

Great.

[She looks up and away. She's quiet for a moment, and then reaches out with her mind to see if her boyfriend is there. He doesn't answer her.]

Is there anything else that's need-to-know here?