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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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[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.]

Thank you. [Well, the only person he trusted to be able to pull it off back home was a Belmont - he's not sure how many other people in the mansion are potentially powerful enough to do it that would be trusted with that sort of thing.]

I'd... thought it must've been something like that, the way you said people thought ambient mages were demons.

I was lucky at least - my family were confused sometimes, but they never really reacted like most people do, and when I was studying overseas, it was with Mina's family, and they actually knew what was going on. I'm not sure which was harder - the ones that didn't know but dealt with occasional signs something was weird, or the ones that DID know and still treated me like a normal kid. Outside of that, pretty much everyone picks up that something's very much not right whether they understand it or not, and I didn't even know what was wrong with everyone and why people just reflexively hated me until the eclipse a year ago.

[Tris is wincing a little.] I wound up with a foster-family that... well, my brother, sisters and I caused a lot of headaches our first year together, simply because we managed so many so-called "impossible" things.

[What does a person with a whip (even if it is a very excellent sort of whip) have on someone who could raze a very large area just by letting all her hair down in one suicidal move?]

Mm, aside from your power being very-- odd-- I didn't notice anything. If you hadn't told me, I would never have known.

[he laughed a little at the 'impossible things'.] Around the Eclipse, I ended up getting introduced to the other people who were involved - they helped me a lot, even if sometimes all it was, was not giving hope that I'd manage to beat it... and Arikado proved that it was possible to have this kind of power and do something good with it, as grumpy and prickly as he is.

[Belmonts are very crazy people, and are known for having some tricks that are probably a good bit of holy power running in the family, and taking down things much, much bigger than them.]

I think it might be that you're consciously aware of it? The people that know about it, or can sense it, seem to have an easier time with that. Most of the people I dealt with were normal, and apparently it's not even a conscious thing - there's just this instinctive reflex that tells them I'm something dangerous.

[Tris smiled back a little.] That's good. Weather-magic, despite what it sounds like, seems to be capable of very little that is actually practical. [Aside from combat, which is a No.] I'd make my blood relatives scream in horror that I can't make a profit from my magic.

[...This is true.]

It may be. I certainly got an eyeful. [She's smiling very crookedly at that.]

Ah-heh. I can't exactly let most people even know what's going on - people are funny about magic and the supernatural where I'm from - but it doesn't matter too much; most of what my powers are meant for, is only really good for dealing with monsters trying to eat people.

And - uh - ...[Wait what huh BUT MINA-IT'SNOTLIKETHAT- brain fatal error, (A)bort/(R)etry/(F)ail?]

The only thing I've really noticed weather magic could be turned to for a profit is either highly irresponsible- or... combat magic. And I won't take money for combat magic. [There are Issues there.]

[...

Wait, what?]

[...what are you...]

[...Tris is turning this very epic shade of red, from her ears to her neck.]

That's not what I meant! Are all boys so-- filthy-minded!?

[Honestly, if anyone tried to pay him for the effort, he'd probably refuse.]

[The sad part is, it was less of his mind going gutter, and more of his mind getting this pre-emptive "possible gutterlike something!" and freezing up.]

I didn't - I mean - I don't know - what - I - [Stammer, verbal keysmash, flail!]

[Secretly, when he calms down, he's going to blame Yoko and her randomly spaced teasing.]

[Tris is just going to bury her face in her hands until her face cools some.]

At least you're not half as bad as my brother. I would much rather not know about some thoughts.

[Meanwhile, Soma is retreating to hide in his corner of the elevator as much as possible.] Sorry. I've been getting teased a lot. I think I'm starting to expect it.

[OH LOOK AN ELEVATOR DING!! And the doors opening!]

[Tris is going to sigh heavily and shake her head.] I can understand that. I lived with a rather... well, he was a former street rat. I'm not surprised Briar picked up on.... cruder things. [Sharing part of her MIND with him certainly didn't help OH HELLO ELEVATOR DING, you're getting Tris to jump a little and hurry out of there.]

[He's following in his own hurry.] That figures. I have an adopted older sister that I think is trying to live vicariously through me. [If the teasing about Mina was any indication :P...]

I have two foster sisters and a foster brother, and our situation is... slightly more complicated than simply sharing a roof and a pair of foster-mothers. [I dare you to ask.]

[This is the room! Tris is heading in and grabbing both card and blackberry.]

[He doesn't exactly ask, but there is this funny moment of a headtilt and a blank blink.] Eh?

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