Caritas, Thursday Evening

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara had actually shown up for her shift for once. Largely because without any classes to teach she'd gotten bored.

She'd realise her mistake soon enough. Especially since Tino had taken the door off the storage closet.

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[magnusrushesin]

Magnus was also without a class to teach this week and a man can only build so much furniture for his cool landlord and the guy who was possibly a thief who showed up at the place and he was deeply suspicious of despite or perhaps because he was the only lawman around...

But. Yes. Boredom. Suspicious boredom.

"Hail and well met," he said brightly.

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara looked over from the sad remains of the closet door. "Evening."

It wasn't actively hostile?

[magnusrushesin]

"Is it just me or do really weird things happen in the bars here?" Magnus had to ask.

[wrongkindofsith]

"Occasionally cute bartenders happen," Cara said, thinking of how she's met Clark. "But it's mostly Tino and zombies."

When in doubt, blame Tino.

[magnusrushesin]

Yeah, he totally whiffed that perception check. "Oh. Oh wow. Did not see those guys over there. Wow. Sure are some dead folks."

[wrongkindofsith]

"They're harmless." At least compared with Cara's other experiences with the undead went. "Unless you like music."

[magnusrushesin]

"I kinda do?" Magnus said, voice going up at the end like now he was unsure because those might ruin bardic tradition for good.

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara jerked a thumb towards the stage. "They're the band, they play like you'd expect from people whose limbs fall off mid set."

Probably not helping, Cara.

[magnusrushesin]

"I'm pretty sure under normal circumstances I'd be stabbing them in some kind of dungeon," Magnus said slowly. "Not that I've been in a dungeon."

Or even dealt with a dragon!

[wrongkindofsith]

"Uh huh." Cara'd seen her share of dungeons and then some. Though often she'd been the scariest thing in them.

[magnusrushesin]

She did have tbat going for her.

"I'm Magnus. Magnus Burnsides. It's nice to meet you, I think. Zombies aside."

[wrongkindofsith]

"Cara," she said. "You're one of the newbies, right?"

[magnusrushesin]

"Yeeep. Kinda stuck here." Which sucked a lot.

[wrongkindofsith]

"I know that feeling." At least Magnus hadn't been deaged to boot?

[magnusrushesin]

That would have sucked even more. He'd be back to level 1!

"You too?"

[wrongkindofsith]

She'd been very tiny and cranky and still hadn't quite caught up to her old age. "Not anymore, but yes."

[magnusrushesin]

"Any tips? I'm pretty sure there's a curse involved or whatever weird warlocky stuff Garfield does."

Other than hate Mondays.

[wrongkindofsith]

Weeeeell, technically it hadn't been a curse keeping her on the island so much as Richard's disappointed face. Stupid loyalty.

"The island does what it wants to do." Because it was the worst.

[magnusrushesin]

"Well, shoot." Magnus slumped a little. "Had to ask. We kinda have some important things to get back to."

Like remembering an entire century of adventures.

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara poured him a shot of something strong. "On the house."

She'd take it out of Tino's pay.

[magnusrushesin]

"Thank you." She didn't seem like the type to poison you.

Not like Captain Captain Bane.

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara would just stab you in the face, she was direct like that. "You're welcome."

[magnusrushesin]

Which Magnus appreciated.

"Are you a teacher too?" he asked, taking a sip.

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara nodded. "Fighting mostly, I try to knock some sense into their heads."

[magnusrushesin]

Magnus brightened right the fuck up. "Really? That is a great subject."

[wrongkindofsith]

That got him a grin, short, sharp and sincere. "I always think so."

[magnusrushesin]

He held up a hand for a fist bump. "Fighters for life."

[wrongkindofsith]

"Or death." It was a sign of how much Cara had grown as a person that she returned the fistbump instead of looking at his hand like she was planning on cutting it off. "Theirs, preferably."

[magnusrushesin]

"You are my new best friend on the island. Aside from Taako, but he's a wizard... ya know." Squishy wizards.

[wrongkindofsith]

This could only end in tears.

"I know." Somewhere Zedd was feeling Very Offended Indeed.

[magnusrushesin]

Tears and someone getting stabbed while Magnus cheered it on.

He smiled brightly at that like it was an inside joke. "If you see an elf walking around with a frappacino and an umbrella, that's my buddy."

[wrongkindofsith]

"I think I've heard of him." The squirrels were deeply concerned and judgemental about the frappacinos.

[magnusrushesin]

Rude! They were delicious!

Okay, the double fisting was a concern. He'd cop to that.

"That weird... radio? Thing?"