fandomhighdorms | The Second Floor Common Room, Thursday Evening

Karla was nervous. Well, that wasn't much of a surprise. Karla had been nervous all day. But this was a new and different kind of nervous. Now, she was about to host a party, which she had never done, in a world that was still foreign to her, and for many girls she did not know very well. It was enough to unsettle even the strongest nerves.

Still, she though she was ready. Dinah had promised to provide her laptop for movies. Karla and Gabrielle had gone to Turtle's and purchased lots of ~~moddable~~ snacks, sodas, and lots of candy and chocolates. She'd bought make-up, since Dinah had mentioned it's importance in such matters, plenty of blankets and pillows to share, and several other sundries because she wasn't entirely certain what else would be needed, and wished to be prepared. Also, lots of booze, from her private Kaeleeran stash.

Most importantly, there was a small, neatly lettered sign on the door that said 'No Males Please.'

Well, she was as ready as she was ever going to be. "Kiss kiss," she muttered.

[~~Give me a second for the OCD, please.~~ OCD is ready to party! Sorry for the repost! Wrong LJ.]

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"Of a sort. My godmother, a mentor who's a Master Mage and Reggie. My fiancee."

"You're engaged?" Dinah said, surprised. "Um. That's cool?" Although Eleanor looked a little young for that. "When are you guys getting married?"

"Well, he did mention it." Although he hadn't actually asked. "We're not sure yet. We decided it would be wise for me to go out and expand my learning first."

"He... mentioned it?" Which didn't sound like engaged to Dinah. "And yeah, education should come first. What year are you here? I'm a rising senior, I just turned seventeen in April."

"I'm a second year, sophmore that is."

"And yes. It's a bit ... complicated."

Whew. "Then there's plenty of time to worry about it later," Dinah said, then said, since she'd been wondering, "Mages? Are you one too?"

"Yes," she grinned. "I am a Fire Mage."

"Soooo, you can set fire to things? Or is it more complicated?" Dinah asked, popping a few kernels of popcorn into her mouth.

"Yes and yes. I can do anything with fire; create it, control it, extingish it. But I don't always use fire for everything. Sheilds, for instance."

"Coooool. Or more accurate, awesome!" Dinah said, giving Eleanor a grin. "What do you use for shields, then? Just, whatever's around?"

"It doesn't work quite like that," she said with a giggle. "It's... I have an idea. Wait a moment."

Eleanor held her hand out and made a very small sheild around it, one that would resist physical attack.

"Go ahead, try to touch my hand. It won't hurt," she added quickly. "It'll just be like pushing against a wall."

"Hunh. 'kay." Dinah reached out one finger to poke at it, and blinked when it seemed to slide and bounce away. "How... hunh." Poke poke poke, bounce bounce bounce. "What's doing that?"

"A magical sheild," she replied, dismissing it in the process. "It blocks out attacks, either physcial or magical depending upon what you need. Though it's wise to have a sheild that does both. Mages sometimes forget that not all attacks are magical in nature."

A well-aimed dagger kills just as well as a bolt of mage lighting.

And it was a lesson that Eleanor had learned quite well from both her mentors.

"You can just do that, la, no problem?" Dinah said, totally impressed. "I would *love* to have something like that!" She grinned at Eleanor. "Does it tire you out much?"

"I did have to learn how, and as with any other skill, it takes practice." Then she shrugged lightly, "Sometimes. It depends on what I'm doing. Something like what I just did doesn't bother me at all. A magical duel with another mage, very draining."

"Hunh." Dinah shook her head, then looked speculative. "I can't remember, were you at the Magic Reserves meeting last week? Or thinking of joining it?"

"I was there, yes," she nodded. "I probably will join. You? Are you also some sort of a mage?"

Dinah tilted her hand back and forth, then frowned, and reached for the bag of chips--

which whooooshed into her hand, and landed in her lap. "Meta-powers. I only have a few. So, not as versatile as you guys, but I'm getting better at them."

"How is that different from magic?"

"Mmm, all I can do is move different things, read thoughts when I touch you, and have dream things going on," Dinah explained. "And I don't say any magic words, or spells or anything. It just happens. Sometimes when I don't mean for it to. My sister says it doesn't break the laws of physics?" She paused. "YEah, I'm not really sure either."

"You can read thoughts?" Eleanor wasn't sure whether to be in awe of that or not. "What do you mean by dream things?"

"Only when I'm touching someone's skin," Dinah said, hoping she wasn't worried. "Otherwise, nothing. And sometimes I have dreams of when someone I care about is in trouble." She bit her lower lip, and admitted, "And I can kind of walk into someone's head, if I'm touching them. I don't do it too often, though. It's ... unnerving."

"Walk into their head? As in, you can see everything they've ever gone through?"

"What they're going through right then, yeah. ~~My canon is fuzzy on the details.~~ I've used it to help people," Dinah added hastily. "Not hurt them. So we could know how crime victims got hurt."

"That's good then. Many people have things that they feel they can't talk about, but they should."

Pot calling kettle here.

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