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fandomhighdorms2011-02-02 03:13 pm
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Magic Reserves, Dorm Lobby, Wednesday Afternoon
Reserves met in the lobby today, since going outside felt like a cruel joke. The snacks were a bit sparse -- chips, cookies, hot and cold drinks -- but still more than enough to get through an hour.
"Hey," Tara said earnestly, once it seemed like everyone had found a chair or a piece of floor. "Thanks for coming this week. We wanted to talk about something the importance of communication, even when things are going wrong."
"A lot of us have secrets, at home," she continued, since that was a topic she knew something about. "We can't use our powers, if we have them. We've been told we're bad or worthless or evil or cursed or -- anything mean that people wanted to say to us, we've heard it. And that fear stays with us, so here, even though we know our friends don't think of us the same way ... we still feel alone. Even though none of us really are." She was silently grateful to Tahiri and Illyria, there. They'd freed her from her own fear.
She continued, with the slightest glance to the other leaders, "Most of the time, our secrets don't do anything but make us feel bad and keep us awake at night. But sometimes there's something we don't want to talk about that might be a risk for other people. Today, we're going to talk about how to tell our friends when there's something in our past that might come back to hurt us or someone else."
"And then if things go wrong, we all suffer," said Dolf. He was still looking conflicted today, but he was trying not to let it all shine through too much. "So we think that today we should talk about communication, and making sure we all know about the same problems. Just in case something goes wrong. You might think it is not a good idea to tell us something, but often it really is."
"Hey," Tara said earnestly, once it seemed like everyone had found a chair or a piece of floor. "Thanks for coming this week. We wanted to talk about something the importance of communication, even when things are going wrong."
"A lot of us have secrets, at home," she continued, since that was a topic she knew something about. "We can't use our powers, if we have them. We've been told we're bad or worthless or evil or cursed or -- anything mean that people wanted to say to us, we've heard it. And that fear stays with us, so here, even though we know our friends don't think of us the same way ... we still feel alone. Even though none of us really are." She was silently grateful to Tahiri and Illyria, there. They'd freed her from her own fear.
She continued, with the slightest glance to the other leaders, "Most of the time, our secrets don't do anything but make us feel bad and keep us awake at night. But sometimes there's something we don't want to talk about that might be a risk for other people. Today, we're going to talk about how to tell our friends when there's something in our past that might come back to hurt us or someone else."
"And then if things go wrong, we all suffer," said Dolf. He was still looking conflicted today, but he was trying not to let it all shine through too much. "So we think that today we should talk about communication, and making sure we all know about the same problems. Just in case something goes wrong. You might think it is not a good idea to tell us something, but often it really is."
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Keeping secrets? Nooooooooo. Didn't know a thing about that. Nope. Not at all.
Except for how the lives of people she cared about back home might depend on how well she did. Never mind that a certain boyfriend of hers consistently failed at refraining from using her civilian name in costume.
That was a train of thought that would annoy her if she dwelled on it, but cookies were a very nice distraction from such things.
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She wondered if it was indicative of something, but she didn't want to pry. She kept her thoughts to herself and sipped at a cup of tea.
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Part of her still had a hard time grasping the concept that this whole not-keeping-secrets thing was actually difficult for some people to do.
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There, that was a nice, light, happy train of thought, wasn't it? She was going to see how long she could stick with that one.
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whose mun totally hadn't passed out in a haze of flu drugs before this went up, reallywas there, and bouncing a little awkwardly on his feet.OOC [2/02]