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There was a hint of pessimism in Lucinda's response that wasn't unusual in younger werewolves. She could understand. Upon being bitten, Adrestia often saw more of what she had lost to Lycanism than what she gained. The trade-off would never be equal but as the years wore on she learned to live with the curse.
It became part of her, not she an extension of it.
Tia got up to join her mentee in a quest to find something else to do, hands in her pockets as they approached the canal and began to walk alongside it. "I don't think burning energy is like, conducive to conversation?" she laughed as she glanced at the running waters. "We can just walk. I have bird seed if you want to feed ducks."
She flipped open her bag, taking out a little canvas pouch.
"You know, there are books about us written by people like us..." Adrestia scooped up a handful of mixed seed before offering the pouch to the younger witch. "Just from other cultures and eras. I mean, does it surprise you that Coloniser Incorporated has a shit way of treating anyone who isn't normal?"
Or white. If she had a galleon for every time a girl she dated referred to her skin tone asexotic or her parents as being so selfless to adopt someone like her....
Tia shut out the thought and sprinkled some seeds into the canal as a few ducks drifted over from the other side. "World's a big place," she shrugged. "Not everyone's against us."
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Muggle London / Re: [August 6th] Between Moons (Lucinda)
February 21, 2022, 10:34:19 AM
She glanced at Lucinda, unable to repress a sympathetic smile. They hadn't spoken much at these meetings so she didn't know for certain what things were like for the young witch - whether she had a genuine group of friends pulling her through this, whether she was targeted at school. But she did sound... lonely.
A lonely person who wanted to be left alone. Well, left alone by the Ministry. Adrestia understood that feeling.
"I won't lie to you," she raised her eyebrows as she turned slightly to better face Lucinda. "The Ministry's going to be on your back for... the rest of your life, probably. I mean, we're on a list. Probably several."
It was a reality that took a long time to get used to. Wizarding society wasn't all that vast in the first place; even smaller when you're on a special list at St.Mungo's or the Ministry. She was sure they had an international wanted list too. Running away from all this meant changing who you were entirely, changing your identity.
And even then you lose, because they've taken away the life and friends you used to have.
"If you wanted to be left alone by them," she added with a wry smile, "you really went about it the wrong way. Rule-breaking runs the risk of getting caught. And getting caught runs the risk of unwanted attention. It's not advanced arithmancy."
Tia knew werewolves registered and unregistered. She never judged - but there were always consequences, risks, compromises. You just accepted the ones you were willing to live with. "They'll lay off, though. The Ministry. Case closed and all that."
A lonely person who wanted to be left alone. Well, left alone by the Ministry. Adrestia understood that feeling.
"I won't lie to you," she raised her eyebrows as she turned slightly to better face Lucinda. "The Ministry's going to be on your back for... the rest of your life, probably. I mean, we're on a list. Probably several."
It was a reality that took a long time to get used to. Wizarding society wasn't all that vast in the first place; even smaller when you're on a special list at St.Mungo's or the Ministry. She was sure they had an international wanted list too. Running away from all this meant changing who you were entirely, changing your identity.
And even then you lose, because they've taken away the life and friends you used to have.
"If you wanted to be left alone by them," she added with a wry smile, "you really went about it the wrong way. Rule-breaking runs the risk of getting caught. And getting caught runs the risk of unwanted attention. It's not advanced arithmancy."
Tia knew werewolves registered and unregistered. She never judged - but there were always consequences, risks, compromises. You just accepted the ones you were willing to live with. "They'll lay off, though. The Ministry. Case closed and all that."
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Muggle London / Re: [August 6th] Between Moons (Lucinda)
February 18, 2022, 10:11:47 AM
She laughed around the sweet in her mouth as she returned the offer to her pocket. "Umm, no, it's one of those Edinburgh rock tins," her eyes lifted into a roll. "You know, tourist shop claptrap. Sucker for them. Even went through a snow globe phase."
Adrestia's hobbies and interests were often phases that came and went; she thought it was part of how she compartmentalised being a werewolf too. It was a phase as well, cyclical, and it wasn't forever.
That Lucinda's grandmother disowned her wasn't uncommon but it was still incredibly sad. Almost every werewolf she mentored had family members who left, shunned, exiled. The stigma ran deep. She didn't remark on it right away, leaning back as she examined her newly varnished nails instead.
"Now, my weekend? Hm," Tia held her hand out, counting: "I had a lush bubble bath, went for a massage, manicure, the works. And had cosy dinners with my girlfriend... but you're asking me about something else, right?" she raised an eyebrow at the younger witch.
Adolescence didn't feel that long ago. Temple was a werewolf but she was also just like most teens, that messed up mixture of hormones and self-loathing and just being plain old dumb. Tia's personal life was pretext for a bigger curiousity.
"It's different for everyone. Some werewolves get a very sexual charge when the moon is waxing," she smiled slightly, purposefully holding back on her own preference and pattern. "Some people get angrier, moodier. I think it brings out stuff in us that was already there?"
Tia had been to clubs like Lapin, where they played it up. That whole horny-like-an-animal thing was glamorised, stylised. A way of re-appropriating their proximity to beasts.
She sucked on her sweet thoughtfully, and watched a lone swan pass in the canal below.
Adrestia's hobbies and interests were often phases that came and went; she thought it was part of how she compartmentalised being a werewolf too. It was a phase as well, cyclical, and it wasn't forever.
That Lucinda's grandmother disowned her wasn't uncommon but it was still incredibly sad. Almost every werewolf she mentored had family members who left, shunned, exiled. The stigma ran deep. She didn't remark on it right away, leaning back as she examined her newly varnished nails instead.
"Now, my weekend? Hm," Tia held her hand out, counting: "I had a lush bubble bath, went for a massage, manicure, the works. And had cosy dinners with my girlfriend... but you're asking me about something else, right?" she raised an eyebrow at the younger witch.
Adolescence didn't feel that long ago. Temple was a werewolf but she was also just like most teens, that messed up mixture of hormones and self-loathing and just being plain old dumb. Tia's personal life was pretext for a bigger curiousity.
"It's different for everyone. Some werewolves get a very sexual charge when the moon is waxing," she smiled slightly, purposefully holding back on her own preference and pattern. "Some people get angrier, moodier. I think it brings out stuff in us that was already there?"
Tia had been to clubs like Lapin, where they played it up. That whole horny-like-an-animal thing was glamorised, stylised. A way of re-appropriating their proximity to beasts.
She sucked on her sweet thoughtfully, and watched a lone swan pass in the canal below.
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Muggle London / Re: [August 6th] Between Moons (Lucinda)
February 18, 2022, 12:56:53 AM
There was a breeze - just the slightest one, enough to be enjoyable without messing anyone's hair up. Tia folded her feet up on to the bench as her mentee took a seat.
"I've used up my quota of fun over the weekend," she looked down at the canal and smiled as two ducks went by on the water's surface; it made her think of time spent with Fauna recently. "But I like quiet places. Can't always be interesting, nobody would get anything done."
Lucinda was such a teenager. Adrestia was sure that even her parents found it trying to get her to talk about being a werewolf; but there was no finish line to race towards, really, and extreme moods never bothered her much if she could kind of understand where they were coming from. She dug into her pocket, taking out a little lozenges tin.
"The museum is very quiet too," she opened it to reveal a bunch of rhubarb and custard boiled sweets. "Like, totally haunted, we have at least two poltergeists, but they've nothing on Peeves. Some days I don't see anyone living at all. Just ghosts and maps. Sweet?"
Tia popped a sweet into her mouth, offering the tin to Lucinda.
"I've used up my quota of fun over the weekend," she looked down at the canal and smiled as two ducks went by on the water's surface; it made her think of time spent with Fauna recently. "But I like quiet places. Can't always be interesting, nobody would get anything done."
Lucinda was such a teenager. Adrestia was sure that even her parents found it trying to get her to talk about being a werewolf; but there was no finish line to race towards, really, and extreme moods never bothered her much if she could kind of understand where they were coming from. She dug into her pocket, taking out a little lozenges tin.
"The museum is very quiet too," she opened it to reveal a bunch of rhubarb and custard boiled sweets. "Like, totally haunted, we have at least two poltergeists, but they've nothing on Peeves. Some days I don't see anyone living at all. Just ghosts and maps. Sweet?"
Tia popped a sweet into her mouth, offering the tin to Lucinda.
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Muggle London / [August 6th] Between Moons (Lucinda)
February 17, 2022, 02:30:03 PM
After lunch time, in a quiet corner of Regents Park overlooking a bit of the canal.
It had been less than a week since she last transformed but Adrestia was feeling quite centred - she had gone through her usual rituals, now as intimate to her as the rituals of a witch's blood cycle. Most werewolves found their rhythm eventually, though some took longer than others. Hers was performed with great care and intention.
"Lucinda!" she waved at the young figure coming round the bend of trees by the canal. "Got us a bench!"
Tia lowered herself into said bench and took out a golden pocket watch as she did so. Since being discovered after a runaway incident, Temple had been assigned to at least thirty minutes of mentorship every month. Adrestia had volunteered. She fiddled with the dials, setting the thirty minutes before pocketing the time piece again.
Today was her day off from the museum. Nothing urgent in cartography anyway. If nothing else, she looked forward to simply being in the park while it was still warm out.
"What do you feel like today?" Tia smiled and raised her eyebrows as the girl approached. "Want to sit and look at birds? I think I saw us a couple of swans that might make a return."
She never made her mentees talk about anything in particular, especially the ones forcibly assigned by the Ministry. Tia offered them all the same thing - sitting together in silence, if they didn't want to talk about why they were here.
It had been less than a week since she last transformed but Adrestia was feeling quite centred - she had gone through her usual rituals, now as intimate to her as the rituals of a witch's blood cycle. Most werewolves found their rhythm eventually, though some took longer than others. Hers was performed with great care and intention.
"Lucinda!" she waved at the young figure coming round the bend of trees by the canal. "Got us a bench!"
Tia lowered herself into said bench and took out a golden pocket watch as she did so. Since being discovered after a runaway incident, Temple had been assigned to at least thirty minutes of mentorship every month. Adrestia had volunteered. She fiddled with the dials, setting the thirty minutes before pocketing the time piece again.
Today was her day off from the museum. Nothing urgent in cartography anyway. If nothing else, she looked forward to simply being in the park while it was still warm out.
"What do you feel like today?" Tia smiled and raised her eyebrows as the girl approached. "Want to sit and look at birds? I think I saw us a couple of swans that might make a return."
She never made her mentees talk about anything in particular, especially the ones forcibly assigned by the Ministry. Tia offered them all the same thing - sitting together in silence, if they didn't want to talk about why they were here.
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Hiraeth Gardens / Re: [April 7th] Just Want to Have Fun (Fauna)
October 09, 2021, 04:47:41 AM
Tia didn't think she was the kind of person who blushed or startled easily in regular life - but she had set aside much of her defensiveness around Fauna, bringing the other witch into her whirlwind of hobbies instead of allowing those things to stand between them.
So she blushed, yes, bowing her head to lightly kiss Fauna's neck as she was reminded of being slightly shorter. Adrestia never minded being shorter. It gave her better access to laying sweet kisses on sensitive collarbones or, remembering their island getaway last month, deeper wells. And she liked that it made her girlfriend feel like a badass.
Fauna totally was a badass. Only a badass was allowed to make Tia want to hide her face in the shoulder of the wooly blazer.
"And your laugh, and your smile."
Adrestia laughed, the chocked-off sentimental kind. She lifted her face from, Fauna's shoulder in time to be kissed - and she kissed back, softly but slowly. Lips wet and mouth pliant with patient hunger. The older witch slid both her hands back down to Fauna's waist underneath the blazer, then on second thought up to the lapels.
"Want this off of you," she pulled back from the kiss to speak, nuzzling along the side of the other girl's jaw and down to her neck once more. "Yes?" Tia murmured and this time, when she kissed Fauna's neck, she lingered with intention, to taste.
Fauna was warm and alive and more enticing than any onscreen beauty, any Greek myth. Tia spent enough time around maps and statues and relics and art. What she wanted was this.
So she blushed, yes, bowing her head to lightly kiss Fauna's neck as she was reminded of being slightly shorter. Adrestia never minded being shorter. It gave her better access to laying sweet kisses on sensitive collarbones or, remembering their island getaway last month, deeper wells. And she liked that it made her girlfriend feel like a badass.
Fauna totally was a badass. Only a badass was allowed to make Tia want to hide her face in the shoulder of the wooly blazer.
"And your laugh, and your smile."
Adrestia laughed, the chocked-off sentimental kind. She lifted her face from, Fauna's shoulder in time to be kissed - and she kissed back, softly but slowly. Lips wet and mouth pliant with patient hunger. The older witch slid both her hands back down to Fauna's waist underneath the blazer, then on second thought up to the lapels.
"Want this off of you," she pulled back from the kiss to speak, nuzzling along the side of the other girl's jaw and down to her neck once more. "Yes?" Tia murmured and this time, when she kissed Fauna's neck, she lingered with intention, to taste.
Fauna was warm and alive and more enticing than any onscreen beauty, any Greek myth. Tia spent enough time around maps and statues and relics and art. What she wanted was this.
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Hiraeth Gardens / Re: [April 7th] Just Want to Have Fun (Fauna)
August 31, 2021, 03:01:11 PM
She watched her girlfriend's face, already fond of the way those expressive eyes darted here or there when she was thinking.
Adrestia nodded along to Fauna as well as the music - she was really feeling it, with the gillyweed, and the hands fiddling with her knotted shirttails were deliciously ticklish. Her hands drifted a bit lower, clutching in approval. It was hard to believe when they were together, the difficult lives they lived outside of it.
"Oooh suits of armour, right!" she repeated, wrinkling her nose. "I guess. It would be creepy if those suits started doing whatever they wanted though. Or if they started building other suits..." Tia winked at the other witch. "Little baby suits of armour."
The last thing wizarding society needed was their little creations pulling a Frankenstein on them! Their existing troubles were perfectly satisfactory on that front.
"I was thinking of that play, Pygmalion. Which is based on Galathea? Maybe?" she pulled a face, as if asking the air, and met Fauna's gaze. "I saw the movie when I was a girl, My Fair Lady. The ending wasn't the same but it was nice. I totally had a crush on--"
Adrestia stopped abruptly and laughed, tucking her head into Fauna's neck. Oh gods she was too high. She had a crush on Aubrey Hepburn, with those large blue eyes and dark hair and pink pout....
"Sorry sorry!" she pulled back, cheeks hot. "Literally just realised I had a type."
Tia slipped a hand along the side of Fauna's pale neck, fingers sliding into the back of her hair. "Lucky me," she grinned.
Adrestia nodded along to Fauna as well as the music - she was really feeling it, with the gillyweed, and the hands fiddling with her knotted shirttails were deliciously ticklish. Her hands drifted a bit lower, clutching in approval. It was hard to believe when they were together, the difficult lives they lived outside of it.
"Oooh suits of armour, right!" she repeated, wrinkling her nose. "I guess. It would be creepy if those suits started doing whatever they wanted though. Or if they started building other suits..." Tia winked at the other witch. "Little baby suits of armour."
The last thing wizarding society needed was their little creations pulling a Frankenstein on them! Their existing troubles were perfectly satisfactory on that front.
"I was thinking of that play, Pygmalion. Which is based on Galathea? Maybe?" she pulled a face, as if asking the air, and met Fauna's gaze. "I saw the movie when I was a girl, My Fair Lady. The ending wasn't the same but it was nice. I totally had a crush on--"
Adrestia stopped abruptly and laughed, tucking her head into Fauna's neck. Oh gods she was too high. She had a crush on Aubrey Hepburn, with those large blue eyes and dark hair and pink pout....
"Sorry sorry!" she pulled back, cheeks hot. "Literally just realised I had a type."
Tia slipped a hand along the side of Fauna's pale neck, fingers sliding into the back of her hair. "Lucky me," she grinned.
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Hiraeth Gardens / Re: [April 7th] Just Want to Have Fun (Fauna)
August 18, 2021, 04:49:05 PM
Oh good! Fauna knew them!
Tia produced another scattering of colourful bubbles and grinned at her girlfriend's bizarre dancing form - the robot! That particular icon of muggle culture had trickled its way into modern magical consciousness. She kind of knew what they were about, from general chatter, but not really? And she vaguely recalled her mum reading her an old story about a man who fell in love with a woman who turned out to be a machination[1] but that had been an eerie story.
Nothing eerie about Fauna doing the robot.
"Robots!" Tia giggled, replacing her pipe as some of the bubbles started to pop - releasing faint clouds of gillyweed. She joined the other witch with a lively look. "What a concept, right?"
Adrestia slipped her hands around Fauna's waist under the blazer, timing her own little dance to the beat so that their hips could mimic the rhythm together. "Machines that look like people. And they make sweet, sweet music," she raised her eyebrows and bobbed her head a bit.
If there was any awkwardness in Fauna, she could never really pick it apart from the auror's regular charm. Tia smiled to herself. No robot could ever equal a Fauna, who looked tempting even in Adrestia's bookish blazer. It was impossible to 'program' any machine that would result in... all this.
Freckles and elegant hands and an endlessly inquisitive mind. To say nothing of more hidden charms.
"What's like the wizarding equivalent of robots?" she mused out loud. "It just seems like a total power trip, you know? Making beings, even metal ones."
Tia produced another scattering of colourful bubbles and grinned at her girlfriend's bizarre dancing form - the robot! That particular icon of muggle culture had trickled its way into modern magical consciousness. She kind of knew what they were about, from general chatter, but not really? And she vaguely recalled her mum reading her an old story about a man who fell in love with a woman who turned out to be a machination[1] but that had been an eerie story.
Nothing eerie about Fauna doing the robot.
"Robots!" Tia giggled, replacing her pipe as some of the bubbles started to pop - releasing faint clouds of gillyweed. She joined the other witch with a lively look. "What a concept, right?"
Adrestia slipped her hands around Fauna's waist under the blazer, timing her own little dance to the beat so that their hips could mimic the rhythm together. "Machines that look like people. And they make sweet, sweet music," she raised her eyebrows and bobbed her head a bit.
If there was any awkwardness in Fauna, she could never really pick it apart from the auror's regular charm. Tia smiled to herself. No robot could ever equal a Fauna, who looked tempting even in Adrestia's bookish blazer. It was impossible to 'program' any machine that would result in... all this.
Freckles and elegant hands and an endlessly inquisitive mind. To say nothing of more hidden charms.
"What's like the wizarding equivalent of robots?" she mused out loud. "It just seems like a total power trip, you know? Making beings, even metal ones."
| 1. | The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann |
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Hiraeth Gardens / Re: [April 7th] Just Want to Have Fun (Fauna)
August 04, 2021, 12:37:43 PM
Tia's dark eyebrows climbed and climbed as her girlfriend described the dangers of level two's evidence room. All the while she smiled, though inside her heart gave a leap of anxiety - she could forget the age gap at times but there was a good decade between them. So she worried. Fauna seemed so young to be juggling those dangers.
Quite without meaning to, Adrestia had drawn the other witch closer.
"Er, just a second."
The eyebrows came down, puzzled, and then shot back up as she laughed again. They laughed so much when they were together. And Fauna... Fauna blushed all the time. Not everyone looked so pretty when they blushed.
It was, at the risk of sounding old-fashioned, very becoming.
"You..." she was at lost for words for a moment, and kissed Fauna - one hand going to the lapel of the blazer. It was meant to be a quick, affectionate peck but her lips had other ideas, the one kiss becoming two and three and four lingering ones instead.
Tia pulled back, bumping her nose against the freckled one. "No dangerous curses tonight, okay?" she implored earnestly and in a whisper because of how close they were huddled together. "I like us when we're in one piece."
Curses didn't actually scare her - the Lycan's curse was the start and end of that fear - but ever since the castle incident she was keen to avoid trouble. Trouble might find them anyway, why wave a landing flag?
"Music?" she said in a lighter voice, slipping off the couch with another kiss. "I asked Reducto to source me some muggle records!" Adrestia walked to a little turntable perched on a stool by the fireplace across from them. "They're not half bad."
In an attempt to curry favour with the auror, Tia was really making an effort to understand muggle things. And music was universal anyway! She slipped a record out of its sleeve and adjusted the needle accordingly.
As the song started, she went to the mantle and took out a little terracota smoking pipe. "Have you heard of them? Daft Punk?"
Adrestia checked the pipe chamber and took a puff, blowing out a cloud of soap bubbles.
Quite without meaning to, Adrestia had drawn the other witch closer.
"Er, just a second."
The eyebrows came down, puzzled, and then shot back up as she laughed again. They laughed so much when they were together. And Fauna... Fauna blushed all the time. Not everyone looked so pretty when they blushed.
It was, at the risk of sounding old-fashioned, very becoming.
"You..." she was at lost for words for a moment, and kissed Fauna - one hand going to the lapel of the blazer. It was meant to be a quick, affectionate peck but her lips had other ideas, the one kiss becoming two and three and four lingering ones instead.
Tia pulled back, bumping her nose against the freckled one. "No dangerous curses tonight, okay?" she implored earnestly and in a whisper because of how close they were huddled together. "I like us when we're in one piece."
Curses didn't actually scare her - the Lycan's curse was the start and end of that fear - but ever since the castle incident she was keen to avoid trouble. Trouble might find them anyway, why wave a landing flag?
"Music?" she said in a lighter voice, slipping off the couch with another kiss. "I asked Reducto to source me some muggle records!" Adrestia walked to a little turntable perched on a stool by the fireplace across from them. "They're not half bad."
In an attempt to curry favour with the auror, Tia was really making an effort to understand muggle things. And music was universal anyway! She slipped a record out of its sleeve and adjusted the needle accordingly.
As the song started, she went to the mantle and took out a little terracota smoking pipe. "Have you heard of them? Daft Punk?"
Adrestia checked the pipe chamber and took a puff, blowing out a cloud of soap bubbles.
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Hiraeth Gardens / Re: [April 7th] Just Want to Have Fun (Fauna)
August 01, 2021, 04:17:50 PM
Adrestia laughed good humouredly at her girlfriend's admission, planting a kiss on Fauna's forehead. She wasn't going to bring up the whole hey-isn't-this-supposed-to-be-a-musical thing. In fact, she had been expecting the actors to burst into song for the first half hour of the film!
Her arm came around the other witch's shoulders now with a squeeze. Although their real lives bore marks and instance of violence, there was something about the way Fauna discussed the movie... well maybe it was just the magic of fiction. That darkness, and all that blood. You could relish the atmosphere as long as it wasn't happening to you personally.
"The cellar!" she leaned in and matched the hush tones. "You know we have something like that at the Museum, right? It's this immense storage hall full of relics we haven't yet examined or even identified. Super dangerous, I got chills watching those muggles handling stuff."
Just imagine all the chaos those teens could have caused in an actually-dangerous place. Some curses were worst than blood thirsty monsters. Some curses turned you into a monster.
Tia nudged that thought aside, before it could incite memories of last night.
"Those guys controlling the whole thing," she played with Fauna's hair as she talked, "gave me Mysteries vibes. I bet they have even scarier stuff on level nine. Or something like the cubes scene even. I heard Morgenthau has talking skeletons in his office."
Okay, yeah, it was kind of delicious to talk about spooky stuff. "Oh the motorcycle scene!" Adrestia ricocheted back to the movie in that flighty way of hers. "Hilarious. I don't even know why," she snorted. "Just. Watching that dumb beautiful man smash right into a wall..."
She gestured with one hand, a chef's kiss. "Art! Or as the French call it..." her voiced dropped into a terrible mock accent, "art."
Her arm came around the other witch's shoulders now with a squeeze. Although their real lives bore marks and instance of violence, there was something about the way Fauna discussed the movie... well maybe it was just the magic of fiction. That darkness, and all that blood. You could relish the atmosphere as long as it wasn't happening to you personally.
"The cellar!" she leaned in and matched the hush tones. "You know we have something like that at the Museum, right? It's this immense storage hall full of relics we haven't yet examined or even identified. Super dangerous, I got chills watching those muggles handling stuff."
Just imagine all the chaos those teens could have caused in an actually-dangerous place. Some curses were worst than blood thirsty monsters. Some curses turned you into a monster.
Tia nudged that thought aside, before it could incite memories of last night.
"Those guys controlling the whole thing," she played with Fauna's hair as she talked, "gave me Mysteries vibes. I bet they have even scarier stuff on level nine. Or something like the cubes scene even. I heard Morgenthau has talking skeletons in his office."
Okay, yeah, it was kind of delicious to talk about spooky stuff. "Oh the motorcycle scene!" Adrestia ricocheted back to the movie in that flighty way of hers. "Hilarious. I don't even know why," she snorted. "Just. Watching that dumb beautiful man smash right into a wall..."
She gestured with one hand, a chef's kiss. "Art! Or as the French call it..." her voiced dropped into a terrible mock accent, "art."
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Hiraeth Gardens / [April 7th] Just Want to Have Fun (Fauna)
July 28, 2021, 03:33:43 PM
Sometime past 11pm
"I mean, it was pretty clever right??" Adrestia remarked as she returned to the living room in a new change of clothes. "Gotta hand it to the muggles. They've got imagination."
The witches had been out for dinner and a movie, retiring to her flat after the thrill that was Cabin in the Woods. She wasn't as versed in muggle stuff as her girlfriend but she liked their films and hey... you won't catch her complaining about sitting down in a dark room with her favourite auror in the whole wide wizarding world.
Well, outside of Andromeda, but you're not allowed to count cousins!
Adrestia's flat was much the same as always. Cosily neat, with explosive pockets of mess here and there; her latest hobby was watercolours, which explained the easel she'd set up in the kitchen side of her living room. She'd hidden her early paintings and left out the pretty little ones of flowers. Sunflowers, daffodils, whathaveyounot.
"I feel like I haven't done anything much at all today," she said as she joined the other girl on her new mint green sofa, stretching. "But I'm tired anyway? Unfair."
Tia kicked off her house slippers and brought her legs up, folding them beneath her. She draped an arm across the back off the couch, along Fauna's shoulders, and smiled a lopsided smile. "I think movies tire me out. Also, not going to lie, it was also a little scary."
Wasn't she lucky to have brought her sexy auror home. Now she felt perfectly safe.
"I mean, it was pretty clever right??" Adrestia remarked as she returned to the living room in a new change of clothes. "Gotta hand it to the muggles. They've got imagination."
The witches had been out for dinner and a movie, retiring to her flat after the thrill that was Cabin in the Woods. She wasn't as versed in muggle stuff as her girlfriend but she liked their films and hey... you won't catch her complaining about sitting down in a dark room with her favourite auror in the whole wide wizarding world.
Well, outside of Andromeda, but you're not allowed to count cousins!
Adrestia's flat was much the same as always. Cosily neat, with explosive pockets of mess here and there; her latest hobby was watercolours, which explained the easel she'd set up in the kitchen side of her living room. She'd hidden her early paintings and left out the pretty little ones of flowers. Sunflowers, daffodils, whathaveyounot.
"I feel like I haven't done anything much at all today," she said as she joined the other girl on her new mint green sofa, stretching. "But I'm tired anyway? Unfair."
Tia kicked off her house slippers and brought her legs up, folding them beneath her. She draped an arm across the back off the couch, along Fauna's shoulders, and smiled a lopsided smile. "I think movies tire me out. Also, not going to lie, it was also a little scary."
Wasn't she lucky to have brought her sexy auror home. Now she felt perfectly safe.
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Hiraeth Gardens / Re: [February 18] Will you go running towards, or running away?
January 19, 2021, 03:08:20 AM
Considering their last floo trip had landed them in this mess, Tia was apprehensive. But she was much more afraid of what might happen if they didn't jump into the hearth all at once; afraid they would get split up again, afraid she would see her werewolf self once more.
If it weren't for Fauna, she would have fallen and rolled forward when they found themselves thrown up before the Leaky Cauldron fireplace. The two witches clutched at each other - both in wildly inappropriate clothes for a chilly February. Adrestia patted herself to make sure she was still in one piece while Fauna turned around to look at the fire.
All here! Feet, knees, elbows, hands, head (very important). The other woman chuckled, and she glanced at her with a relieved smile. Across the pub, one of the bartenders laughed. Maybe they were laughing at her neon pink sandals, or the magenta tankini she had paired with her dungarees.
Or this was just another Saturday on Diagon, and they were laughing at something else entirely.
Tia didn't care. She threw her arms around Fauna, hugging her tightly. "Next time, we take a portkey!" she exclaimed, betrayed by the tremor in her voice.
If it weren't for Fauna, she would have fallen and rolled forward when they found themselves thrown up before the Leaky Cauldron fireplace. The two witches clutched at each other - both in wildly inappropriate clothes for a chilly February. Adrestia patted herself to make sure she was still in one piece while Fauna turned around to look at the fire.
All here! Feet, knees, elbows, hands, head (very important). The other woman chuckled, and she glanced at her with a relieved smile. Across the pub, one of the bartenders laughed. Maybe they were laughing at her neon pink sandals, or the magenta tankini she had paired with her dungarees.
Or this was just another Saturday on Diagon, and they were laughing at something else entirely.
Tia didn't care. She threw her arms around Fauna, hugging her tightly. "Next time, we take a portkey!" she exclaimed, betrayed by the tremor in her voice.
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Hiraeth Gardens / Re: [February 18] Will you go running towards, or running away?
January 10, 2021, 11:45:58 AM
"You found me."
They clasped hands. Adrestia smiled back at her girlfriend, trusting. Oh, she knew that life was only going to get more interesting around Fauna. She thought that what she needed, after being turned into a werewolf all those years ago, was nothing but peace and quiet. Her maps, her museum, her mentoring.
Eh, screw that. Peace and quiet could come later, or at intervals. In for a knut, in for a galleon.
"I know," she replied, as oblivious to the surrounding shadows, her eyes only for the other witch. "It's almost as if I like you or something, right?" Tia winked and squeezed Fauna's hand again. But that's when she heard it. The growl.
She didn't want to turn around but her happy expression had dropped like a stone. "Fauna. The Leaky Cauldron." Adrestia's voice came out with a tremor and she gripped her wand tightly in her other hand. "Now. Now now now."
They clasped hands. Adrestia smiled back at her girlfriend, trusting. Oh, she knew that life was only going to get more interesting around Fauna. She thought that what she needed, after being turned into a werewolf all those years ago, was nothing but peace and quiet. Her maps, her museum, her mentoring.
Eh, screw that. Peace and quiet could come later, or at intervals. In for a knut, in for a galleon.
"I know," she replied, as oblivious to the surrounding shadows, her eyes only for the other witch. "It's almost as if I like you or something, right?" Tia winked and squeezed Fauna's hand again. But that's when she heard it. The growl.
She didn't want to turn around but her happy expression had dropped like a stone. "Fauna. The Leaky Cauldron." Adrestia's voice came out with a tremor and she gripped her wand tightly in her other hand. "Now. Now now now."