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[The video feed shows Tris in what is most assuredly fancier, more expensive clothing than the last time she was here. It still shows the signs of Sandry’s hands, but Tris herself also looks older, her eyes and expression harder.] So, I’m in this place again. [Her voice has a slight growl to it.] At least this time I have Chime.

[As if her name were a cue, the glass-looking thing on her neck and shoulders uncurls. It's a dragon, made completely of glass, and about the size of a housecat. She crawls closer to the blackberry, until Tris shakes her head.] Chime, you can't eat this.

Ah- Saguru? I’d like a word with you in private, if I could.

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[Tris snorts. Right now you're one of the best people for her, man.] Add to that not being able to do anything small and having a generalized and powerful dislike of most of your peers.

[Chime... is going to drag them over to the desk and stack the coins on each other.]

[He does remember enough of her magic to grasp the 'unable to do anything small'.] I at least have the ... concession on my own abilities that I bring some of it on myself; I could back off on the nastier and more difficult cases to focus on studies and minor whatever-happens-to-be-in-the-area ... except then I get left hearing about the cases anyway, only most of them have gone on much longer than they would have if I'd gone ahead and answered, and there's several more dead bodies. I could do "something smaller" for my field, I'd just be murdered by my own conscience. I'd rather be a target than a coward.

[.... You know, it's not like he's using his pocket change anyway, or like it'd be a great loss; he's going to set out the rest of it on the nearest surface to the desk.]

.... I doubt either of us do what we do for "our peers"... God knows with what I was like a couple years ago, when that was the majority of the human contact I had...

In order to be able to be financially independent, I would need to either work battle-magic or work the weather for people who do not understand the damage "just" moving that storm from there to here would wreak. Sometimes I wish that I had been born simply an academic mage; I wouldn't have had half the troubles I have now. [She only HAS a roof over her head by the good grace of her sister. :| Yeah. And even that... Tris is expecting the other shoe to drop any day after this disastrous trip to Namorn.]

[Chime is going to purr and nuzzle at Saguru's hand before moving the coins into the beginnings of a hoard. Dragons..]

[Aaand there's one where ... he knows some of his life plans haven't been entirely practical.] I'm currently living off my family financially as much as anything - it'll be ... at least three, four more years and quite a few credentials and hoops before it's legal for me to be involved in a manner that'd allow me to get honestly paid without sketchy loopholes, and when I hit that point, I'm left with the choice between continuing to be not-entirely-legal, or joining some organization and being on a short and tight leash. At the moment, financial stability is another casualty of my inability to sit on my hands and respect red tape over the idea that maybe I could make a difference on how much damage is done, and my father makes that ... [He frowns, and it's almost a flinch.] Difficult to navigate.

There may yet be something you can do - Either some kind of alternate use that isn't the norm, or something where you can keep up another trade alongside your magic.

[Awwww. You know at this point, he's liable to start collecting small shiny objects for Chime and end up spoiling her horribly.]

[Tris is nodding.] I do have academic magic as well; I'm going to Lightsbridge to learn to actually use that beyond what Niko, who is horribly specialized to the point he may as well be an ambient mage can teach me. [She's going to frown a little and just... set a hand on his shoulder. If only her foster-siblings were so easy to talk to.]

[Chime will love you FOREVER.]

[Having met Briar, he's honestly been wondering about that one - but with what he knows about the connection, it seems like something that'd do more harm than good to ask about right as she's arrived when he's not sure she's willing to talk about it, particularly when it's pretty clear something must've happened.]

Try not to let them get to you too much - it's easy to end up losing bits and pieces and getting miserable if that's all you have for human contact.

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It was all I had for five years. [Tris is just going to sit down on her bed and frown at her hands.]

[Chime is just trilling happily. You may get stalked around by a glass dragon, Saguru.]

...That's part of what I'm worried about.

[He has no problem with this. Well, he might depending on what shiny objects go missing, but at least he'll know where to look?]

[Tris is smiling, albeit crookedly.] I did make it out alive, at least.

[Your pocketwatch is too big to be kidnapped by her, at least. She wouldn't be able to fly well with it.]

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