43rd Resurrection

[sanctus_dei]

[It's this simple, Mayfield: Theo Crawford comes home to find a black and white cat asleep on his bed. This is not his cat. It does not belong to anyone in town. But he recognizes it immediately.]

Aristophanes?!

[The cat rouses, seemingly happy to see the familiar face, and walks over to Theo demanding attention. Any members of the household or visitors who investigated the exclamation will find Theo staring dumbfounded at large tuxedo cat.]

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[He hasn't forgotten the girl who murdered him during Mayfield's last event, either. Revenge will come, but Theo has learned some patience since he's come to live here. Every day in Mayfield was the same. He was irked about be snuck up on, but felt better when he found out the prizes for the battle royale were pretty lame. His paranoia will be in overdrive, though. Anyone out today who is within a block or two of Theo, and can sense magic, will be able to detect strong protective spells radiating from him.

He's sitting on a park bench, reading a spell book while making notes in another. One of his crows sits on his shoulder, gently chattering at its master. The other is teasing the tomcat, squawking and dancing around it, but the cat doesn't really seem to care.]

Deimos, would you leave him alone already? If he claws you, don't come crying to me.

[The cat looks at Theo, who returns a flat look.] That's not an invitation, so don't get any ideas.

[Approach?]

Comments

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

*Nanami's going to walk over and take a seat next to Theo on his park bench. She likes him from the chess discussion they had.*

Good afternoon.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

[Looks up, sees who it is, goes back to writing. The crows and cat are at full attention to her, though.]

Hey.

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

I hope I am not interrupting you.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

No, it's fine. I think I'm done. [Theo closes the books and sets them down, deciding to light up a cigarette. He's just not good at small talk.

Nanami will be approached by the large cat though, being sniffed at cautiously.]

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

*Nanami ignores the cat completely. In fact she really doesn't even think to look down at it.*

It must be nice, to be able to write that is. Were you taught to as a child?

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

My brother taught me. I am lucky he taught me since I never went to school. You don't know how, I take it?

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

No, I do not know how to read or write. I had no reason to learn and no teacher to teach me.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Why would you have no reason?

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

I had no use for it.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

...What did you do back home?

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

*keywords: back home*

I cooked and tended to chores. What else would I be doing?

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Even if a place like Mayfield thinks that's all women are good for, girls still go to school.

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

I suppose in my world women have even less of a social standing.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

You could learn here, I'm sure. Someone would teach you.

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

Are you volunteering?

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Hnn. Unless you want to learn magic, I'm not going to be a teacher. And even then I'd have to think about it.

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

My, that's quite a shame. It seems like you're good at this writing thing...

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

You have to be, to do magic. You have to be able to read spells to do them. You can memorize them, but most are too complicated. Writing your own spells takes a lot of work, too.

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

Ah, you're a magician? Hm, I wonder if you could show me some magic sometime?

[ooc: whelp (http://akudobita.livejournal.com/843.html)]

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

I could show you, I suppose. I focus in gravity and necromancy.

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

Yes, please do.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

What do you want to see? Necromancy is difficult here, but gravity spells aren't too difficult.

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

The latter sounds more convenient.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Hnn. Alright. [He likes being a showoff. Without needing his books or components, Theo has worked out a nifty little spell. All he does is mutter a few key words in Latin, and he points his finger at a nearby tree as if he were pointing a gun. He ends the spell by saying "Bang!". There's no sound of a gun going off, but there is a nice little hole in that tree, as if a gun had shot it.]

That's a new one I came up with.

[akudobita.livejournal.com]

*Nanami walks up to the tree and inspects it.*

That was rather impressive... what language was that? I have never heard anything like it before.

*Of course, it doesn't matter, Nanami already understands that the incantation is associated with the manipulation of gravity and she has already memorized the words even though they are complete nonsense to her. Very cleaver, really.*