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[This is not Thairos. For one thing, it's raining. She practically had to fight to get the normal storms to come to Thairos. For another, she woke up in what seems to be an inn that is far more opulent than even her famous teacher would stay at. Also, the lighting here is exceedingly odd.]

[There's very little chance she could have gotten kidnapped (and to what end, especially if she's unbound and has nobody watching her. So Tris is going to go out and see if she can't find the lay of this strange city. This starts with her keeping the rain off of her and walking out of the hotel. She is On A Mission To Explore This Place, and she is Not Happy about it.]

[Congrats, Paris, you now have one grumpy, confused, red-headed weather witch standing under what appears to be an invisible glass dome that sheds the rain, and she's stalking your streets like she's mad at you! Which she kind of is.]

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Mm, and mine has, well... [Tris is tugging that medallion out of her shirt.] It has the same image on it as my medallion, and I sincerely doubt that's a coincidence. [She's shoving it back where it belongs in a hurry. You can't even see the ribbon it's hanging from!]

[And then, there is a derp moment.] Do you want me to tag along or hang around or something? I mean, I'm more familiar with a lot of this stuff, although these things can call up a map, so... [Awkward moment of fail is awkward.]

[...That's sort of cute. Not that she's going to let you know she thinks anything of the sort.] I suppose you could "tag along". [That's a crooked little half-smile.]

[...You are the first person that's met him in human form besides to some extent Sebastian that was not family, Mina and family, or "directly involved with the mess" that's been relatively decent to him. This is unusual.] Alright - I uh, don't know where you came from but I'll follow.

[And Tris is going to start walking for the hotel. Her protective little rain-shield is going to cover you!] Just... one thing. Try keeping out of my peripheral vision? What I did to fix seeing your power hurting my eyes is on my glasses, not my eyes themselves.

Uh- right. [He's going to try to keep to that, although it'll be a little awkward - trying to stay mostly in front of her and predict which way she's going.] Thanks for the rain-thing. [He's cautiously shaking out the umbrella and closing it for now.]

I'm a weather-witch. I wouldn't be worth my mage's credential if I couldn't stop a little rain from falling where I didn't want it to.

I guess not. [He was looking up at the shield, and watching the rain slide off it.] Magic really isn't very common where I'm from; it's rare enough that a lot of people who aren't directly involved in something dealing with it, don't believe it exists.

Magic like mine- ambient magic- is not nearly so common as the other kind. It tends to be harder to discover, as well. [She's smiling a bit bitterly. 'Harder to discover', especially if your family believes you to be possessed or something.]

[He's nodding thoughtfully at that.] I'm not sure how it went for Yoko and Mina - but they're both from families where it runs in the family, so as far as I know they were raised with it. I don't really know how it works for mages that aren't in families like that; I've had my plate a bit full just trying to keep track of the vampires and demons and all the rest of the crazy.

Mm, it's not the sort of thing that really runs in families where I'm from. There are tests for academic magic, what most people think of as 'magic'- [There is totally not a tiny touch of bitterness there, oh no.]- but those fall far short of finding ambient mages.

...[Tris is looking at you and frowning a little.] Demons are real where you're from? [As far as she can tell, especially since the signs of an uncontrolled weather-witch were labeled demonic possession, there are no demons at home.] And what's a 'vampire'?

[There is a very confused blink as this processes, and he's trying very hard not to cracked-nervous laugh at the "demons are real" comment.] Very, very real. A cult that summons them is what triggered my powers spiking back up again, and they've wiped out a small town.

And uh. Vampires are - basically undead? They used to be human, but were brought back by another vampire. They feed on blood, and can get pretty powerful and very dangerous; there's only a few things that can hurt them - sunlight weakens them, holy water and blessed relics can ward them off or hurt them if the person using it's powerful enough, and some blessed weapons can do it.

[Tris is looking at you for a moment, very very much a lineface look.]

I suppose it's not any more insane than half of what is happening here right now.

[The thought that demons COULD be real is going to earn her the name Sparky here quickly enough, isn't it.]

[you are going to have such a special time with Sebastian.] It's kind-of funny, with what I've dealt with, to think of a world where magic's known and more common but demons AREN'T real. [His voice drops to a grumble]

[She really is.] It's odd seeing public, large buildings like these that aren't spelled for prosperity and protection from things like fires, to tell the truth. And demons are only a- myth, as far as I know. I could be wrong. [My friends and I seem to make a habit of proving everybody wrong on "BUT MAGIC CAN'T DO THAT" every time we so much as sneeze ANYWAY.]

...[Tris is giving you this... Look. Just, raising one eyebrow slowly.] I assume I really don't want to know what that was about.

If this one is close enough of a parallel to ours, there aren't enough mages around to do things like that very easily; I think the Hakuba shrine's protected, but that's Mina's family's place and it's old and has history. [...And was one of the few holy ground places he was perfectly comfortable in, but that probably had to do with some quirk of shinto.]

And I've had a LOT of very strange and very unpleasant demons try to kill me. I've only ever dealt with a few that weren't a complete pain to deal with, and those were either small bound familiars or - weird. [He still wasn't sure how to classify Sebastian.]

Ah. That's the sort of thing academic mages normally do as work. [She's frowning at the buildings a little, just-- because it's a little surreal.]

Mm. The stories back home about demons tend to have them as beings of complete and utter havoc. They get blamed for many things, including, sometimes, the presence of ambient magic that is uncontrolled. [Tum. Te. Tum, oh look it's the hotel.]

Yeeeah. We ... don't have anything that organized; not enough mages for it.

[...He's a derp, but he's not oblivious all the time.] Eh, at least you get to have it proved false. [Yep. And a revolving door! Aren't those wonderful?]

[It confused Tris a LOT at first.]

Mm, as much as anything can be "proven false". For all that we're organized about magic back home, there are still a great many things called "impossible" that have happened in my lifetime. In my presence, even.

[Like a ten-year-old blowing up a pirate fleet, or four mages essentially becoming four very confused parts of the same whole.]

Well, yeah, but. You're not anything like a demon. [And he smiles back over his shoulder, although there's a little bit of a pained twitch behind it.]

[He's also heading to the elevator instead of the stairs, and it takes him a second to think about that.] Which floor was your room on?

[...That's a very Special look you're getting, Soma. Very much a split between 'get out of my head' and 'what would make you say THAT?']

[Hmm.]

The top floor. [She took the stairs, but she's going to follow you.] I suppose this is something else we don't have back home? [She does not trust the elevator.]

It's an elevator. It's perfectly safe; it carries people between floors. [And he's pushing the "up" button, and waiting for it to ding; there's a small, uncomfortable pause.]

I was supposed to be the reincarnation of something powerful and terrible. I refused, and it worked, somehow, and I thought it'd been over. That cult I mentioned? Worshipped that darkness, and they weren't happy I didn't bring it back into the world, so they wiped out that town to lure me out there so that either one of their lackeys with some potential could kill me and claim that power, or so that they could push me over the edge and force me to turn into that. [And he's going to be ... toying with an omamori he'd had hidden under his shirt, and definitely a bit more distant and uncomfortable, until the door dings and opens - he's stepping in and holding the door for Tris.] Don't worry, it's safe.

[...oh]

[...oh.]

[Tris is stepping into the elevator and making a slight face, mostly because she just Put Her Foot In It and WHAT DO YOU SAY TO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.]

Once he's inside and he's pushed the button for the top floor, he's leaning against the wall and toying with the omamori again. Yay awkward silence.] That's - what I meant earlier, about how if I lost control you'd know. If you ever see me and I'm completely not me... [He trails off for a minute with a vague handwave.] I don't want to be left like that.

[Tris is nodding and looking at that omamori. She's silent for a while.] When I was a child, my-- blood family, I guess you could call them- thought I was perhaps not all human, or-- host to something unpleasant. [That's a bitter smile.] They played a large game of "I don't want her" until they ran out of relatives to leave me with, and then my parents told the head dedicates of a temple they didn't want me.

If you lose control, I'll do my best to stop you. [And if you have any sort of sense for that thing, uh. Walking force of nature, hahaha.]

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