http://snarkyhealer.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhighdorms2010-09-27 12:24 pm
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Second Floor Common Room; Monday Afternoon

It wasn't Shira's common room, but that wasn't stopping her from plopping herself down on a couch and flipping through the TV channels.

People could make her leave if they didn't want her there. The second floor was just more interesting today.

Even if what was on the television was even more boring, if possible, than anything she'd watched before.

[Open as common rooms are!]
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[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2010-09-27 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
That'd been a whole lot of babbly words. Shira just blinked at the other girl for a moment before lifting her pendant to show it in a similar state to Karla's. "I'm also a Healer. It... it would be nice to have someone to study with." She had a gut feeling she could trust Karla, but she was still on her guard.

She hesitated a moment, not quite sure what to say, before deciding on, "I'm from the Shaladoran reserves."
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-27 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"The Shaladoran Reserves?" Karla repeated, confused. That wasn't anywhere she'd heard of. Which meant it probably wasn't in Kaeleer. "Are you from Terreille?"

Kaeleer and Terreille had been closed off from one another for fifty thousand years. She didn't know much about the Realm of Light, but what little she did know of it was bad. Briarwood. Lucivar's centuries of enslavement. Jaenelle's nightmares. A creeping, twisting taint.

A touch uncertain now, Karla added, "I'm Karla, by the way. From Glacia."

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2010-09-27 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Shira," she replied. "And yes, I'm from Terreille. Dena Nehele, specifically. Though the reserves hardly even seem like part of Dena Nehele anymore." What with them having been whittled away over the years until there wasn't enough to sustain the people anymore.
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-27 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Glacia--and Dharo, too--are in Kaeleer, the Shadow Realm," Karla offered, watching Shira's reaction closely. She knew that Jaenelle's family had believed that Kaeleer a myth and wasn't sure how the other witch would respond to such a claim.

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2010-09-27 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Shira had spent most of her life scrabbling for survival, so she wasn't quite as up on places outside of Dena Nehele as other people might have been, but she had heard of Kaeleer.

"Didn't think I'd meet anyone from there," Shira said cautiously. "Then again, I never imagined traveling outside of Dena Nehele much, so... there you have it."
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-27 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're the third person I've met from Terreille," Karla offered with a tentative smile. Possibly fourth, but the High Lord had been the High Lord for so long, what Realm he'd been born in hardly seemed to matter anymore. "May I ask how you ended up in Fandom?"

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2010-09-27 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"My Queen sent me here," Shira replied. "For my own safety."
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-27 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
...That was a disturbingly familiar story. Karla's hand crept up to her Sapphire, like an unconscious need to make sure it was still there.

"You're not the only one here for that reason," Karla offered quietly.

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2010-09-27 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good. That I'm not alone, I mean," Shira amended. "It... I thought I was going to hate it here. Thought I'd hate being away from home and everything I know. But people here are making it bearable."
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-27 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's so different, isn't it?" Karla sympathized. "When I arrived, I thought I'd gone to the Twisted Kingdom. No Blood, no Jewels, no protocol..."

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2010-09-27 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"And the only kind of Craft isn't even called Craft, it's just simple magic." Shira winced at the memory of the culture shock she'd suffered the first couple weeks.
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-27 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"You should come to the Magic Reserve meetings anyway," Karla said. "I help run them, and it's always good to know more about the different kind of magics on the island. Plus, we can always use another Healer."

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2010-09-27 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Shira thought about it for a moment. It would be a good use of her skills, and like Karla said, it was always good to know more...

"All right," she said with a nod. "When are the meetings?"
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-27 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wednesday afternoons after classes," Karla answered. "In the Preserve. We always have food, too."

Karla knew her incentives.

"It's also a great way to meet new people!"

And, you know, food!
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