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]

Curses.

[She gives the phone a blank stare, followed by a confused look.]

What happens?

[eiremagic]

In four and a half years, better question is what doesn't happen.

Yesterday people hugged cats.

[claimyourself]

You're kidding me, right?

[eiremagic]

No.

[claimyourself]

There was a curse that made people want to hug cats.

[eiremagic]

Yes.

[claimyourself]

I guess that's better than a curse that makes people want to kill each other.

[She's still not 100% sure she believes her, but stranger things have happened in her own life.]

[eiremagic]

That happens every now and again.

It happened last month.

[claimyourself]

Oh.

[Spoke too soon there.]

How long do these curses last?

[eiremagic]

A day. Maybe two.

[claimyourself]

Right. Okay. So magic can't stop them. Do you know what causes them?

[eiremagic]

The deities.

[claimyourself]

[Her speech is a little stilted here, as she tries to form her thoughts into words.]

Are those like, actual deities, or just what people call them?

[eiremagic]

It's what they're called.

[claimyourself]

And they're the ones running things here? Throwing curses at us?

[eiremagic]

Yeah.

[claimyourself]

Well that sucks.

[eiremagic]

It's what it is.

[claimyourself]

What do people do in between curses? Just try to live normally?

[eiremagic]

Yeah. Get a job.

[claimyourself]

Do we have to go to school if we're underage?

[eiremagic]

No.

[claimyourself]

Hmm.

[Her uncle was a big believer in not forcing Lena to attend her Mortal school, as he believed all the people there were a bunch of intellectual inferiors, but Lena likes learning.]

So no one's going to check up on me? Like, 'Oh, look at this underage girl, living alone and not going to school. Better stick her in a foster home.'

[eiremagic]

No.

[claimyourself]

Well. Thanks for filling me in.

[Now she just supposes she'll wander aimlessly, see if anyone's openly doing magic.]