behave

[mrmage]

There's a total lunar eclipse two weeks later, the first one since January 2001. That semiquarter and most of the next pass without much more noise. Jackson is occasionally sad because of his dom's electric toy, and he's occasionally more stripey than he wishes to be, but there's not a whole lot Sadde can do about that. Against his hopes, Mason doesn't dump Jackson, and nothing gives.

Sadde continues socializing with people, but no one new. And as the semiquarter approaches its end and summer break gets closer, Sadde receives an email from Tobias, saying that he fully expects his daughter to come home and tell everyone all about her first half year at magic school.

The email tells Sadde to behave.

Sadde is not in a good place.

Comments

[mrmage]

"But it wasn't the sexy that got me hooked, it was the awesome."

[eclipsi]

"You'll make me blush." Pet pet pet.

[mrmage]

"...really? That I'd like to see."

[eclipsi]

"Really?"

[mrmage]

"Yes! I bet you'd look adorable."

[eclipsi]

She giggles. "I can't do it on command though."

[mrmage]

"I can't do it at all, it's terrible for my image as a sub."

[eclipsi]

"Shapeshifting project!"

[mrmage]

"Harder than it looks! Or, well, I have no idea how hard it looks, but it's hard anyway."

[eclipsi]

"Aww."

[mrmage]

"The way my biological magic works is, like... I picture the way my body's supposed to be, and I kinda... stretch it... that way."

[eclipsi]

"And you can't... stretch the blood vessels in your face?"

[mrmage]

"It's not really the blood vessels, it's the blood itself. And it's very... Well it doesn't work in any intuitive way. I learned how to push myself into another sex before being able to fix bruises."

[eclipsi]

"Weird."

[mrmage]

"Yeah. Like, I'm now kinda building a more general knowledge of how bodies work, but that's still behind pushing fixes onto other people, which is behind fixing myself."

[eclipsi]

"Fair enough."

[mrmage]

"It feels a bit like first I learn how to do things and only then I learn what I'm doing. I'll be able to figure lots of different, discrete ways to heal people before I can start unifying them and generalizing."

[eclipsi]

"You know what? Magic is weird and frustrating."

[mrmage]

"Very much so. And I can't even begin to guess what I'm gonna do to mage stuff that's not related to, like, biology."

[eclipsi]

"You'll figure it out, lovely."

[mrmage]

"I'm sure I will but, ech."

[eclipsi]

"Ech?"

[mrmage]

"Magic is frustrating and takes a long time and it's kinda annoying to have to figure it out this way."

[eclipsi]

"Do you ever think about what you'd do if you woke up one day with all your memories but you were like seven?"

[mrmage]

"...I'd definitely work much harder not to eat those cereal bars."