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Magic Box, Thursday, 9/17

Tara did not want to talk about why the little dudes in kilts kept calling her a hag. It was a term she could do without forever, thank you very much.

Eventually, most of them left the store, and she flopped behind the counter with a spellbook. She muttered to herself as she read the chapter on energy bolts.

The Magic Box was open.

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Go for it.

But not if you're a Feegle, please.

Jak had absolutely no idea why he was staring up at the sign of this particular store, except that it looked marginally interesting (even if he did keep having to hold up his cheatsheet to read the letters. He was almost there, seriously). Eventually, his eyes were drawn to the door, and all the weird, cool stuff that seemed to be behind it.

Right!

He pushed open the door almost awkwardly, but strode in with confidence.

Oh, hey, it was Nice Guy Who Doesn't Talk from the picnic. Tara seemed happy to see him.

"Hey, Jak," she said. "Let me know if there's anything I can help you with."

Hey! It was Pretty Girl Who Talks from the picnic. Jak's step became a little surer, and he waved at her as he walked towards one of the set-ups near her (and the counter).

You know, Samos did keep telling him he shouldn't touch Precursor technology, but funky artifacts on the island weren't necessarily Precursor tech, right? His hand hovered over something big and amulet-y.

"D-don't, don't touch that!" Tara almost yelped. "It ... probably shouldn't be out. We aren't sure what it does quite yet but it has bad juju all around it."

'Bad juju' being a highly technical Wiccan term.

'Bad juju' was the local equivalent of the technical terms Samos used to describe Misty Island, and look how well that had turned out.

Although in this case, the universe at large garnered rather a lot of luck from the fact that Jak, unfamiliar with the place and the vocabulary, was surprised enough by the almost-yelp to pull his hand back and shoot her a look that was an obvious question.

Whatnow?

"Now," Tara said, grimacing as she answered the look, "I put it in a box and take it back to Mr. Winchester's office so he can figure out what he wants to do with it."

You know. Before someone else made a grab for it.

She rummaged around behind the counter for gloves and a small box. "Do you do magic at all?"

... This was as good a time as any to try out his new flashcards. While Jak dug around his pocket for the right one (it was starting to get a little full) he looked... torn. Kind of? In the middle?

He finally found the new one Dinah had made for him earlier that day, and held it up.

Eco is energy, there's lots of types, I can use them to do stuff like running really fast, shooting fireballs, hit really hard.

... Neither Dinah nor Jak were in any way related to Shakespeare, no.

"You come with closed captions?" Tara was surprised, but not all that bothered. She was, however, a little puzzled by the actual wording on the card.

"I don't know what eco is," she admitted, then ducked her head to read again. "It's ... magical stuff? So you can use magical stuff but you don't do spells?"

Jak really needed to figure out what this 'closed captions' thing was, and why people kept bringing it up. He was communicating more in a few weeks than he had in the past few years, though. That was a good thing.

He puzzled over the word 'magical' for a moment, but then again, that'd been over the store. So, yeah, sure. It was kind of like magic... using? He nodded to that effect.

"You can look around and see if we have anything like Eco. I don't know everything in the shop yet."

She found a box and, very gingerly, started prodding the amulet toward it, gloves firmly on.

The flashcard was promptly stuffed back in Jak's pocket. He had the one that involved asking her about her classes somewhere in there, but that would involve more messing around with the contents of his pocket than he really could without looking like a massive spaz.

Anyway, why would he disperse to go find Eco when he could lean over her shoulder (kind of. It was more of a respectful loom) and try and see what she was doing with the amulet?

She was engaged in the fascinating task of carefully placing the amulet into a small, plain cardboard box, and, though her shoulder jerked upward as he loomed there (someone was a little jumpy at the best of times), she didn't startle too badly.

"Probably it doesn't even do anything and I'm being silly," she confided. "But, uh. I'd feel r-really guilty if someone put it on and got transported to a different dimension, or whatever it actually does."

Diana had decided to leave Samuel behind again for her weekly trip to the Magic Box. "What are you reading?"

"Spellbook," Tara said, glancing up. "R-remember what Tony and I were talking about yesterday? I want to see how hard the energy bolts thing actually would be."

Diana nodded. "Want help? Or a moving target?"

Tara gestured Diana around to her side of the counter. "You know how to do energy bolts?"

She wasn't aiming them at anyone, no. That would freak her out way too much.

Diana walked over to glance at the book. "I suppose I could? If there was already electricity around I could use that or something."

"The spell says it uses psychic energy," Tara explained, leaning so Diana could see the book. "You aren't conjuring anything. You're just ... making what you already have useful. I think." She frowned at the book. "Some of the good parts are in Latin."

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