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Post by Sharkbait on Jun 19, 2008 19:41:41 GMT -5
"Autumn Richardson."
"Okay, I'm totally not going to remember that, so I'm sorry ahead of time," Jasper said. "My parents decided it would be smart to send me on a 3 in the morning flight over... I missed a Sox-Yankees game and a Celts play-off game..." Autumn looked confused. She opened her mouth, thinking of saying something, a few times before looking at Chaosti, questioningly. ((Sorry for the sports references... But if you've met anyone from Southie, you'd understand.))
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Post by starcrossed on Jun 19, 2008 19:44:58 GMT -5
[Lol, it's fine]
Chaosti, Elena, and Carrie all looked equally confused because starcrossed is drawing a blank.
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Post by Sharkbait on Jun 19, 2008 19:49:10 GMT -5
"Okay, everyone's thinkin' it," Autumn said. "What the hell are you talking about?"
Jasper gave them all a blank look before understanding shone through. "Oh, right. You guys wouldn't know about them. The Red Sox are the baseball team from Boston. The Yankees are from New York. There's been a fued between fans of the two teams since like... 1920 or something over Babe Ruth and the Curse of the Bambino. Different story entirely. Anyway, Celts is short for the Boston Celtics. Basketball team." He finally stopped to take a breath. "You get it?"
"Probably about as much as you understand the whole mage thing," Autumn said, shaking her head.
"So not much then," Jasper answered with a small smile.
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Post by starcrossed on Jun 19, 2008 20:00:12 GMT -5
Chaosti, Elena, and Carrie all still look very confused. To change the subject, Carrie says, "So what house are you in?"
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Post by Sharkbait on Jun 19, 2008 20:07:12 GMT -5
"I think she said I'm in Air," Jasper said, thinking.
"Good! One less person to find," Autumn said. "I'm in Air, too. Now can we please get to the better topics? Like why the hell your thoughts keep flickering in and out but you seem to have no idea what telepathy is."
"I was hoping that if I kept the dumb look on my face someone would explain it in ways other than 'The voices in your head aren't real' like all the stupid ass therapists," Jasper said, rolling his eyes.
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Post by starcrossed on Jun 19, 2008 20:12:48 GMT -5
Chaosti laughs and says, "Trust me - here, more often than not, you can definitely count on the voices being real."
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Post by Sharkbait on Jun 19, 2008 20:19:33 GMT -5
Autumn smiled at Chaosti's comment. "They've been real for me since slightly before puberty," she said. "Okay, if you're hearing voices that aren't your own, you're hearing people's thoughts. And that's normal. To me anyway. Granted, I can also move shit with my mind and feel what other people feel, so..."
"You mean, you feel random things when you don't feel anything like that?" Jasper said.
"Sort of... Like I can tell you're confused beyond all reason, but you've just suddenly gotten slightly more relaxed now that you're not the only freak in the world."
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Post by starcrossed on Jun 19, 2008 20:59:20 GMT -5
"Yep - now you're part of a school full to the brim with freaks," Elena says cheerily.
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Post by Sharkbait on Jun 19, 2008 21:03:36 GMT -5
Jasper chuckled quietly. He looked at his hands, which were wringing his hat, before sighing again. He looked back up at Autumn. "So, this isn't anything like an asylum?"
Autumn thought about it for a second, leaning her head on Chaosti's shoulder. "Only during Potions. But if you get a chance to get in the teacher's head, you'll have entertainment for weeks," she said. "So, basically, no. No straightjackets. No padded rooms unless you want one. No therapists unless you ask for one, and then it's just your friends."
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Post by starcrossed on Jun 20, 2008 1:52:09 GMT -5
Chaosti shakes his head. "Nope, not an asylum - just a school. Though you should bear in mind, at this school people do occasionally turn evil, blow things up, commit homicide, and sometimes get themselves killed."
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Post by Sharkbait on Jun 20, 2008 8:05:47 GMT -5
Autumn nodded. "Yeah, but you get used to it. After a while you think anyone who doesn't do something outrageous is a freak."
Jasper stopped wringing his hat and looked back up. "So, you guys aren't planning on giving me an extensive psychoanalysis anytime soon?"
"If you want us to, we can," Autumn said. "It's not fun. Especially for me... I don't suggest you ask."
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Post by starcrossed on Jun 20, 2008 13:33:45 GMT -5
Elena shrugs and says, "The closest you'll get to that is drunken rambling about our issues over a bottle of firewhiskey."
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Post by Sharkbait on Jun 20, 2008 13:39:48 GMT -5
"Firewhiskey?" Jasper asked. "Is that like... some crazy version of tequila or something? I'll stick with a good Sam Adams."
Autumn looked confused, but then she got it. "It's a beer," she said. She looked at Jasper. "I can hear your thoughts now..."
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Post by starcrossed on Jun 20, 2008 13:48:58 GMT -5
"A wizard version of whiskey, essentially," Elena explains.
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Post by Sharkbait on Jun 20, 2008 13:55:22 GMT -5
Jasper nodded. "Yeah, give me a Sam Adams over whiskey any day." Then Autumn's comment sunk in. "Wait... what do you mean you can read my thoughts?"
"I'm telepathic too, dimwit," Autumn said, concentrating. "I'm just trying to figure out how you got shields up if you've never trained..."
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Post by starcrossed on Jun 20, 2008 14:30:00 GMT -5
"Maybe it's a part of his mage," Chaosti ponders. "Some people do have a sort of built-in resistance to mind powers."
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Post by Sharkbait on Jun 20, 2008 14:34:09 GMT -5
"Yeah, but his wasn't normal," Autumn said. "It was almost like his mind was dead even though he was thinking completely coherently.."
"My best guess is being in the asylum ahs given me serious brain damage," Jasper said. "Maybe now I can play dead.."
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Post by starcrossed on Jun 20, 2008 15:14:35 GMT -5
"So you were sent to an asylum for hearing voices, which has actually turned out to be telepathy?" Carrie asked, to clarify and make sure she was following all this.
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Post by Sharkbait on Jun 20, 2008 15:25:56 GMT -5
"I guess," Jasper said. "I was out in Iraq with my battalion. During the only battle I was there for, I kept hearin' some wicked crazy shit that wasn't coming from my own head. My buddy said I just kinda stood there, gun pointed at the ground, with a blank look on my face. Only injury I got was a graze on my leg."
Autumn nodded, but kept concentrating. "Was that Mark or Ben that said that? I can't quite tell..."
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Post by starcrossed on Jun 20, 2008 16:34:47 GMT -5
"Wow," Carrie says. "You fought in Iraq?"
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