oo1: video. un: lilies.

[cwiclac]

[ lily potter has had something of a jarring entrance into el nysa, and has remained relatively quiet since her arrival. she's spent most of the time with her ragtag family in some sort of attempt to parse through everything that had happened. and, honestly -- lily hasn't managed to do that. she isn't entirely sure whether or not she could ever do that.

but sitting around and doing nothing is also definitely not her style. she needs to be proactive, to find her spot in this new world. get information, learn how to adapt and survive, and try to get through everything that has happened.

even in times of peace, war is still the predominating factor in how she tries to analyze what in the actual hell has happened.

so lily (a young twenty-something-year-old with a huge amount of red hair and green eyes) presents as tired, but with color in her cheeks and a brightness in her eyes. she's noticed some people have been asking for jobs, and lily knows that she needs to do that eventually, too -- but to introduce herself to her new community of ... well, refugees, lily figured something a little less to-the-point was more appropriate.

information is needed. and in this world, there are so many different people, people who are living openly, that it doesn't seem that magic is so taboo here as it is in the muggle world back home. it's almost refreshing, really, but it also leads lily to a question: ]

This entire world is miraculous, isn't it?

[ literally. figuratively. metaphorically. she's breathing, isn't she? ]

I'm new, here -- I'm sure a lot of other people are going to say the same thing in the coming weeks, and I know people who have been here for longer than I have are probably tired of the questions. [ tough shit is what she wants to say, but ah well. ] My name is Lily, and I come from a world where there are a lot of different types of people, too. I'm not sure how many skills or talents I have that will be useful to any of you, but I do want to know -- how many of you believe in, or practice, magic?

[ that's it. that's her question. but after figuring that that blunt question might lead the suspicious to not really want to answer, she continues. it's a risk, and it feels odd saying it -- but after seeing so many different people, and watching the network closely, she figures it's a risk that could probably pay off in spades: ]

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

[ lily potter will make ice sculptures out of rain puddles all day if it means someone will give her something to do, thanks. ]

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[cwiclac]

[ she arches her eyebrows, slightly, because that's interesting to hear. ]

Another one, hm?

[ she sounds amused, and she crosses her arms over her chest. ]

I'll have to track her down to say hello -- but no, I'm afraid I've never met someone named Clary before.

[exonerated]

[ It's rather uncanny, actually, but not in a bad way. She'll let her decide that for herself, though. ]

Well then, you just might, in the future.

[ It'll be like looking at a mirror. ]

In any case — there are plenty of individuals here that practice magic, much more so than I'm used to seeing myself. I'm sure some of them have already spoken to you.

[cwiclac]

I have -- people are being pretty forthcoming, which I appreciate.

[ she can understand having to hide a part of yourself in the real world, and it isn't easy explaining a piece of yourself that can be so private. ]

Are people typically so open, here?

[exonerated]

Perhaps it came with the territory. The first of us that awakened came here in less than stellar fashion. Due to the threat of outside forces attacking Thesa, Darma placed all of us in pods and ejected us from the station. Those with special abilities, magic or otherwise, were dropped first, in order to help the rest of us who did not.

Trusting each other, whatever skills each of us had to offer, was necessary in order to survive. I suppose that has made it easy for the rest to share what they could do, now.

[ He'd seen in his life then, moments when people helped one another without question, when magic was performed and people with seemingly supernatural strength used their powers to make sure everyone got out alive. And people like Edmund, who lead and made sure that everyone was fed and nurtured, and protected from any other forms of harm that could have come their way. ]

[cwiclac]

[ that ... sounds horrific, to be perfectly honest. being trapped inside a pod and being ejected into space. and by the sound of it, had lily been here, she would have been one of the ones deposited first. ]

I'm glad it seemed to work out for the best, then. [ trusting strangers is so foreign to her, now, though lily imagines that she's doing it now. but it is a calculated risk -- lily can defend herself, and if magic is commonplace here, she definitely does not want to be labeled as someone who can't wield it. ] Or, at least, that there were people available to help the people who can't defend themselves quite as well as the person next to them.

[exonerated]

I suppose we were luckiest in that regard. We helped one another, willingly, and most still do. I saw plenty of others offering to help the newly awakened to come down here, to El Nysa.