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[fuzzbeat]

Who: Harriet and y o u
What: Getting settled in
Where: The dorms, the temple, and the time-honored wildcard
When: First week or so of December
Warnings: Blanket warning for The Magicians in general. Will edit if anything comes up.


1) she had only three ingredients. somehow, she made it work. one woman's quest for a hearty meal

[ College style dining is her life now, huh. What Harriet wouldn't give for a bottle of Worcestershire sauce right now, or some ground spices. Bland food is cruel and unusual punishment.

But here she is, heating up beef stock, canned mushrooms, and red kidney beans in a bid to cook something vaguely tasty. She could go out and buy food, but the monthly stipend isn't enough to sustain a diet that consists of eating out every day. Pragmatism it is.

The pot of soup is big. Maybe she'll share if you ask. Or maybe you have food of your own and are willing to make this an impromptu potluck. ]


2) this easy trick will change your life!

[ At least her magic works here. That one year without was an experience she does not care to repeat, especially not in a strange new place.

Harriet makes a few quick tuts and ends up with a rectangle formed by her thumbs and forefingers. It's through that frame that she looks at the temple, the sphinxes, the ground — everything in the temple's immediate surroundings.

Does it look weird to a non-magician? Yes. Does she care? Nah. But she'll chat about it with anyone who asks, provided they're not The Man or The Man's People. ]


3) wildcard

[ Talk to Harriet in town or wherever seems fun! Hmu at punnyinpink @ plurk if you wanna plot anything out. ]

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[blitzcheer]

[ He nods back and then walks to the doors leading out, waiting briefly so that when he leads her, she's following at his level than tagging behind. He's a bit of a speedy walker, but he can fix that if she lags. ]

Let's walk a bit first, [ he says, wanting to get some distance from the dorms. There's nothing but roads around them, but he has sense of which ones are usually less busy, when the layout behaves; which still isn't saying much with vehicles creating noise and going along in the streets near and past them. Those are fine though. Some noise is good.

He leads them down a street specked with civilians, but with enough breathing room so they're not crowding into one another. Eventually-- ]

I haven't done this before. [ He's nervous, the only reason why he says it, to build himself up; but when he's about to actually follow it up with something useful, Tidus looks at the woman with a blink that raises his brow, realising-- ] Can you hear me okay here?

[ Just going to ask that a notch louder than he was just speaking. Wait, maybe a busy street isn't good for her? ]

[fuzzbeat]

[ For not having done this before, he doesn't look like a nervous wreck. That'd be a giveaway. With enough practice, he could be good at this.

At his question, first she frowns, and then she realizes that she never did share one pretty important fact with him. ]

I can't hear you at all. I'm Deaf. [ She smiles. ] So, where do we go first?

[blitzcheer]

[ He kinda needs to remember to look at her hands, doesn’t he?--that’s another thing Tidus realises for himself in watching her and walking, as if that hadn’t really settled into his brain when they were in the dorm. Like it would be different out here. Or he’s just so used to verbal conversation that he expects the volume to turn up and away they go.

It’s not a problem though. Just a small note to himself, a private oh, before he’s answering her question. ]

You know many places yet? Everything shuffles around, but you get the idea where they’ll be most of the time. [ 50/50, anyway. ] The way we’re going is clothing stores most of them time, fashions from everywhere. There’s a park after that; that's always there. I was gonna ask you what kind of places you usually go to, maybe I know a few spots like them. Is where you're from anything like this? Technology, vehicles... electricity?

[ It's diverting from Things, but it might help to know too. Best to see what she knows and if there's way he can bring up things like that. ...and see how out there her own life has been to even humour what he has to say. ]