Magic Box, Thursday, 8/13

[life_inshadow]

Tara was giving all the books about magic a wide berth today, thank you very much. She didn't need to turn herself into a plant again anytime soon.

She settled behind the counter with some special orders to package and ship off. Someone in Saskatchewan kept going through the dried acacia leaf like she was raising a whole army from the dead.

[No OCD, open store! Possible SP of 'I have the day off.']

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[nevertobequeen.livejournal.com]

Morgana had been holding onto the money Arthur left for her all week, trying to decide how to spend it to ensure that it would annoy him as much as possible. She'd considered the Magic Box on her trips into town during the week, but she hadn't actually stepped inside until today. Whatever she'd been expecting, this wasn't nearly as scary.

[life_inshadow]

Tara glanced up from the box to smile a little at the other girl. "Hi, can I help you with anything?"

[nevertobequeen.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure, but I hope so," Morgana said. She might as well put some of the money to good use. "I was wondering if you have anything here that might help a person sleep."

[life_inshadow]

"Herbal, you mean?" Tara queried. "V-valerin is good. Or there are a couple books on m-meditation techniques they might want. I guess it depends on why they aren't sleeping."

[nevertobequeen.livejournal.com]

"They have nightmares sometimes," Morgana said, comforted by not being specific about herself for the moment. "The court physician at home used to make a medicine that seemed to prevent the dreams from happening, but it didn't always work. I haven't found anything or anyone to replace him yet, but I noticed that you have herbs..." She trailed off with a bit of a hopeful look. "Valerin, you said?"

[life_inshadow]

Tara wandered off toward the shelf of herbs. "Valerian," she confirmed. "I-if your friend" --she'd go with the obvious fiction for the moment -- "wants to just sleep. Hops helps some people too, and poppy, but that's, uh, opium. Stay away."

She hesitated with her hands on the jars. "Are the dreams telling the person anything? Or are they just scary and, y'know, wiggins-causing?"

Dreams could send messages.

[nevertobequeen.livejournal.com]

Morgana nodded along as Tara listed herbs, committing the names to memory. She hesitated at the question, debating with herself about how open to be, considering the cost of honesty at home versus here, where strange dreams were hardly the strangest thing.

"Sometimes, the dreams come true," she finally admitted. "That's when the medicine doesn't work."

[life_inshadow]

"Ohhhhh," Tara said. She wanted to be helpful, but she had no idea how to do it, so: "Ohhhhhh. I don't know if the person should try to block premonitions, but it sounds like they can't, so -" she shrugged, at a loss. "I don't know much about psychic gifts."

[nevertobequeen.livejournal.com]

"You would call it a gift?" Of course she would, she didn't come from Camelot. "Magic is forbidden where I come from, in all its forms. I've always thought--" Oh, keeping up the fiction just seemed silly now. "I didn't want to get into trouble for something I can't control. Do you think it's all right to have premonitions?"

[life_inshadow]

"I think if they help you and you aren't abusing magic or anything to get them, absolutely," Tara said. "Y-you wouldn't get in trouble here, anyhow. It's safe."

[nevertobequeen.livejournal.com]

"That does seem to be the resounding thought here, doesn't it?" Morgana said, with a hint of a smile. "I can't abuse something I hardly understand. Perhaps it would be better to take something to help me fall bask asleep after I've dreamt?" she said uncertainly.

[life_inshadow]

"So you get the dreams but not the up-all-night-part?" Tara said, equally uncertain. "That could be good, yeah. You could try the Valerian for that, maybe just small dose."

"What kinds of things do you see?"

[nevertobequeen.livejournal.com]

"I see when my friends are going to be in danger," Morgana said. "Do you know Arthur? There are those who wish to do him harm, to hurt the king and prevent Arthur from reaching the throne himself someday. I've seen some of the things people were intending to do."

[life_inshadow]

"Kind of?" Tara said. "I s-see him in reserves, and I know Merlin." She looked impressed. "You're really lucky to be able to do that."

[nevertobequeen.livejournal.com]

"Lucky?" Morgana said, before she could stop herself. "I've never thought of it that way. I suppose...well, it would help if he believed me." It would help if she told him they weren't just feelings of female intuition too, but it was mostly Arthur's fault.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

The summer was coming to a close, and Tim had some decisions to make. It was in trying to do this that he came into the Magic Box today. "Excuse me."

[life_inshadow]

"Sure," Tara said, glancing up at the redhead. "W-what am I excusing you for?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim snickered. "Just in case I was disturbing you. Who would I talk to about getting a job? Here?"

[life_inshadow]

"Mr. Winchester," Tara answered. "H-he's in the shop weekends, usually? I've only worked here like a month, but, uh. I think I saw applications somewhere..."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"How do you like it?"

[life_inshadow]

"It's really interesting," Tara said with enthusiasm. "The b-books are neat and the c-clients are mostly nice. And it was a good place to work when the sleeping thing happened a few weeks ago."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim winced at that last. "Yeah I can see that. As far as Fandom stuff goes, I can do without things like that. I preferred the giant alligators." Hell he even preferred the Gentlemen.

[life_inshadow]

"I m-missed those," Tara said. "They sound freaky."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Fairly freaky yeah. But not any more than say, Ogres playing on a high school soccer team or Harpy Cheerleaders."

[life_inshadow]

Tara blinked. "Those happen here?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"No actually that happened at my old high school in New York. It was this whole big thing." Medusa had been the principal's secretary for a while.

[life_inshadow]

"Oh. So, uh, so Fandom is just kinda ... normal for you."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Sort of. My life has long spurts of normalcy, and then something outrageous will happen. Last year was kind of a dry spell for me till I came back here."