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[shesepankh]

Saturday morning sees Bella with her notebooks about magic all in her knapsack, her medallion safety-pinned by its chain to her bra just in case she trips the wrong way, waiting with Charlie for pickup for the Avalon trip.

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[shesepankh]

"Yes, the people are terrible. Maybe at some point we should go on a tour of various Avalons and see if we can find not-terrible people."

[castmyown]

"Yeah. After graduation though, unless you want to spend your summer touring the country visiting Avalons instead of magic."

[shesepankh]

"Magic first. The massive amounts of scroll money will be necessary to get hotels, even if we can skip out on plane fare." Wingflap!

[castmyown]

He snickers. "Agreed. Scroll money is great, I'm going to get as many scholarships as I can get, but it would help with going to college."

[shesepankh]

Bella nods. "Do you know yet what you want to do in college?"

[castmyown]

"Probably something that can be involved in social services. Also, French. Fluency will be great with magic."

[shesepankh]

"Sounds like a plan. I guess I'm looking at education and Spanish. I will pretend I want to be a Spanish teacher but it will be a clever ruse."

[castmyown]

Darren laughs. "And then you will open Hogwarts and shock them all."

[shesepankh]

"Yes. Yes I will. I probably won't actually call it Hogwarts."

[castmyown]

"I figured, that would get lots of people to be upset with you."

[shesepankh]

"A bit, yes. Also it's kind of a dumb name if you think about it."

[castmyown]

Darren snorts. "It does sound absolutely ridiculous, yes."

[shesepankh]

"I will call my school something more sophisticated, like Goosepimples."

[castmyown]

Darren bursts out laughing.

[shesepankh]

Bella grins.

"I won't really," she says, "if you were being particularly gullible just now."

[castmyown]

"No," he says, snickering. "But it was funny."

[shesepankh]

"How's your research on extinct things going?"

[castmyown]

"It's going okay. Kind of. I mean, a lot of the books aren't helpful, but some are okay at being straightforward."

[shesepankh]

"You can tell me about it on the way home and annoy Savannah!"

[castmyown]

"Hurray! Annoying my sister!" he laughs.

[shesepankh]

"I'm gonna see if I can find any more things about Cherufes. Have fun with your dead critters."

[castmyown]

"Have fun with your horrific lava monsters and propaganda books!"

[shesepankh]

"...Propaganda?"

[castmyown]

"The various books about magic. Nothing helpful in any of them, just scary things," informs Darren. "Fire and brimstone and all that? I'm pretty sure it's propaganda."

[shesepankh]

"Propaganda implies something a bit more systematic, doesn't it?"