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Magic Box, Thursday, 9/10

Leaving the kitten at home this week, Tara rushed to the Magic Box after class to get the store open on time.

She might have overdone the "rushing" thing a tiny bit, since she slipped on a wet patch near the door, tripped over the hem of her skirt, and fell across the threshold in a truly spectacular pratfall that left her with a badly skinned knee.

Whimpering (and hoping no one had noticed), she went to find the first-aid kit to patch her knee up.

The Magic Box was open. The girl working there was limping a little.

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Diana was getting a routine. This was a bit unusual for her. "Hey Tara." She said, coming into the Magic Box, with no Samuel for a change.

"Hey," Tara said, glancing up from poking at her bandage with a quick smile. "You're short a cat."

"Yup. He's avoiding pudding and eggs." Diana commented. "What happened to your leg?"

Tara made a scoffing noise. "Tripped on my skirt opening the store and wiped out. Think it counts as a magical injury?"

Diana nodded "Totally. You were opening a magic shop after all."

"Next time someone asks, if it's somebody I don't like I'll say it was a curse," Tara confirmed cheerfully. "How's your week? I could not believe that food fight at reserves yesterday."

"Excellent plan." Diana said, nodding. "I had to shield my cat more than me. Have you ever tried to clean goopy stuff out of cat fur? Not fun."

"I went and hid by Raven," Tara admitted, unashamed. "Her soul is a shield. It ... okay, you're gonna laugh? But I don't like using magic that way. I don't wanna call on the powers to toss a cream pie at Karla."

"Hey, I never laugh about how people use their powers." Diana said, holding up her hands in mock defense and remembering getting teased by her sister for making candy canes dance. "It was a good way to practice shielding, you ha-should admit."

"A good way to practice taking advantage of Raven's shields, anyhow," Tara said. "I don't really have shields, not like that."

"Can you do anything as a defensive magic?" Diana asked, curious. She also made a mental note to ask her roommate about the soul shield thing.

"Some, yeah," Tara confirmed. "It's not my f-focus, but I guess I can use telekinesis that way, or I could do a spell to trap demons. At home most of the bad things are demons."

Diana considered this. "What kind of demons?"

"D-d-different kinds," Tara answered helpfully, and listed off a couple different varieties ~~in a handwavey manner because I am too lazy to do research~~. "But the most common kind is, uh, vampires, like over on the other island."

"Hunh. My world is really different when it comes to all that stuff. My sister had a vampire stay at her Inn once. She had a gig as a musician." Diana paused and shuddered. "The vampire, not my sister."

Tara blinked. "And, and it didn't try to eat her -- or anybody else?"

Diana shook her head. "Not that vampire. She just had a gig to play."

Ino had been contemplating what to send to Reno, realized she hadn't ever been in here (except for the one time to utterly terrify Andrew and that totally didn't count) and neatly combined the two situations into one.

"Hello?" she said, stepping inside and looking around.

"Hi," Tara said, looking up from a book on archaeology and demons that she'd pulled from the shelf a few minutes before. "Anything I can help you with?"

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"Probably," Ino said easily, flicking her hair back over her shoulders and giving a bit of an impish shrug. "I'm not, like, really up on magic and all so I don't even know if I'll phrase it properly, but--" Ino, stop rambling, "--so, are there... charms or something that work without the user having to actually have magic of their own?"

Chakra could look like magic, but Ino was pretty sure it wasn't the same and Reno was an entirely different matter what with his magic being materia...

...why were there so many types of magic anyway? Who thought up that bright idea?

"Tons," Tara said, happy the girl had a question she could actually answer. "What do you want them to do? There are some where a w-witch would have to put a spell on it firs, and some where I'd sell you the pieces and you'd have to say the spell to put everything together."

She leaned forward on the counter. "I don't know if the second kind would work for somebody from a world with no magic at all."

"It's for a friend," she explained, "his world has got magic, but it's more 'use this round glowy thing and you have awesome powers from it', I don't actually know if any of the magic comes from the users at all."

Ino tapped her fingers on the counter. "I was thinking something that'd maybe help purify the ground? Help things grow? Or keep things--hydrated, that's a problem too. Their planet is pretty... dead, in a lot of places. It might not work, even if the charm can do that, but it's worth a try to help, I think."

"Fertility charm," Tara said, and blushed. "Not -- not the baby kind. Something to make the ground ... want to grow things more? I think I can do that."

She was already thinking about what was in the spellbooks she knew well.

She laughed at that.

"I would love to see his face if I told him that," no, really, she totally would, "but gotcha, that makes sense."

Even if the word sort of made her want to laugh more. Ah well.

"You can do it?" A beat. "Like, if it takes a little while that's totally good with me, but that's excellent to hear."

"It's really a funny word," Tara laughed. "I can try? It might take a little while to get everything together, and I'd want to test it and make sure it didn't do anything crazy..."

Thoughtfully, she added, "Could I bring it by your dorm room sometime this weekend? Probably it would look like a bag of dust and herbs."

"Not crazy is good," she agreed, grinning. "I totally get wanting to double-check things before having them go live."

A beat.

"Totally stop by my room--" wait, "Um, sorry?" Ino laughed. "I'm Ino, by the way, and I live up in 504. I'm good at any point this weekend but for Saturday during the day. I've got work then."

[Back in an hour!]

"Yeah, you probably d-don't want your friend to use it and end up growing 20-foot-tall dandelions," Tara suggested jokingly. "Or worse."

She brushed her hair out of her face. "Oh, right. Names are good. I'm Tara and I'm in 223. I'll look for you Sunday night ~~possibly handwavily depending on how the day goes~~?"

"Names are generally good at some point, else I'd have to assign my own and that generally amuses only me," she teased lightly. Of course, Bobby was now calling Ino 'Snowflake' and Leda called her 'Amy' so Ino was pretty easy on the name bit. "And I think he'd be delighted with twenty foot beans, but that's a bit over-ambitious right now."

"Sunday'll be totally good ~~whether it be handwavy or not!~~, though. Is there anything you, like, need from me now for it?" Down payment?

"You'd need a really big pan to cook 20-foot beans," Tara said. "And, and that's if you can figure out how to harvest them."

She shook her head at the question. "Nah. This is fun for me. I'll ask you to cover the ingredients once it's made."

"Chop them up a whole lot?" Ino asked, and grinned. "I can cover, no problem. If you don't mind me asking--what do you find fun 'bout it?"

[*EYES PING* It appeared in my inbox when you left it, but absolutely would not appear on my screen even when I switched computers. Weiiiird.]

"I'm starting from nothing and I'm making something happen," Tara answered. "And it's something not everyone can do. I like research and getting better and all of that."

Dooooooooork.

"And I like that I'll help feed people."

She bit a lip, wondering if that was enough.

[WEIRD!]

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Ino's smile was sunny.

"Good answer," she said approvingly, and idly pushed herself away from the counter to spin around once. "I'll leave off pestering you for more of them then." Toootally teasing, and obviously so. No one (except Naruto, perhaps) made it through seven years at the Academy in the same class as Hinata and never figured out how to deal with someone who was shy. "I'll see you Sunday, then."

"I didn't mind your pestering," Tara reassured her, smiling. "'Bye."

"I'll remember that," Ino sang, and slipped out the door.

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