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[strikeraid]

"What's up, it's Skyler. I'm doing something else right now. Just text me if it's that important, ok? Later."

[[ leaving texts, mail and e-mails are also perfectly acceptable given your character has the right addresses! ]]

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[keywarding]

[Her laugh comes more easily this time, the image of these little killer bunnies chasing after Skyler is quite a sight in her head.

Smiling, she rests her chin on her hands as he eats some of the cake.]

I'll learn to be a fantastic witch just for you! Or I'll take up my brothers old lacrosse stick and defend you with it.

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Yeah, it's not like Mike's using it for anything. [ He rolls his eyes, sticking the fork deeply into the cake. ] Hey, that's an idea - if you go out for a fight, just borrow his pads. I'll teach you how to body check people. You'll be invincible.

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[Laughing, Holly shakes her head.] I don't think I'd do so well at body checking people. I'd probably just fall over with all the pads on. That's why I stuck with track and field, only my own two feet to give me trouble.

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Really? No memories of Sakura punching a guy in the neck or anything? You never know, the potential could be there. [ Track and field requires a little coordination, too! He doesn't think she'd be all that clumsy! ]

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No punching people, just fighting some sort of magical battle. I'm still not sure how that works though.

[She shrugs to show she's not that concerned with it. She's not going to be fighting some big battle or anything.]

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Huh... [ He sticks another piece of the cake in his mouth and chews, putting the fork back onto the plate. ] You don't know? What, no magic words or anything? [ Because his magic is a no brainer. Seriously. ]

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[Holly shakes her head, because really she has no clue.] I haven't gotten any memories on how to use whatever magic I have. Or had.

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Really? Huh... [ He leans back in his chair, thinking for a moment. ] What do you remember from the magic fight? Were you using any?

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[There's the smallest of shakes of her head.]

The only memory I have of maybe using them, she was really scared of losing her friends but she had to use them. It kind of worries me.

[She rubs her neck nervously, tapping at the skin there with her fingers.] But that's it. Maybe there's a incantation or something?

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Maybe. [ Skyler scratches at his neck. When he uses magic, he just has to think about it - knowing the name of the spell helps, it helps trigger the feeling of the spell - but he's never needed anything like an incantation before. ]

Did you have anything besides the cards? And your friend? You weren't just, uh, waving your hands or anything, right?

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I have a staff, it's pretty cute. A pink think with a star on it. [Well she should really call it a baton, it's not huge like wizards stave's in movies, but it's not the size of a wand like she was originally calling it. Who knows.]

She was using a staff, it was the same one I have now, but there weren't any cards or spells she said, just Yue and Kero talking to her and telling her it was going to be okay. Ethan knows a little bit about the cards but I don't think he has any memories of me using them.

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[ A staff, huh... ]

Maybe you need a combination of them together? Like, the staff and one of those cards around and Kero. And... Yue? [ That isn't a name he's heard before. ]

[keywarding]

Oh that's an idea. [One she probably should have managed to think of on her own if she wasn't still a little worried about the cards in general.]

Oh! Uh... Yue is an .. angel that helped her too. Ethan remembers him judging him- or us. I think it was us, but I have a memory of both Kero and Yue helping her, and being worried for her?

Okay this just sounds weird and confusing. [She rubs her face with her hands. Really how crazy can you sound?]

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You should try that. And, uh... [ ... that does sound confusing. Skyler just waves that aside, though. ] Stuff must've happened. Sometimes I get two memories that don't make sense, but months later I'll get a different memory that explains it. [ And she would only have sounded crazy if Skyler hadn't gotten so many conflicting memories about the same topics. Sometimes about the same people. Sometimes about what those people look like, sometimes. It's weird, being Skyler. ]

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I wish I knew. It'd make this all a lot easier. [Then maybe she could help Ethan out more and not just cower in a corner if trouble happened.

But she smiles instead of wallowing in her own troubles]

Thanks, Skyler.

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It'll get clearer. Either it's gonna get clearer because things happened because of reasons, or it never would have made sense anyway.

[ ... wait did he really help. he. doesn't feel like he did? ]

Finish your cake. I have to pick up chocolate for Ari and you're coming with me.

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[You helped Skyler, feel proud.]

I'm going? [She takes the cake back to finish the last few pieces.] You know what Ari likes!

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I know I know what she likes. I don't know what you like. [ He wiggles his eyebrows. B) ] You're coming with me.

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[That catches her by surprise, laughing a little at his waggling eyebrows.]

But you don't have to get me anything! You bought me cake!

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That was me treating you because I'm nice sometimes. You're supposed to give someone candy and stuff during Valentine's, unless you're on a date. [ He snickers. ] You wanna make this a date, Avalon?

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[She's so happy her drink is empty by now because she knocks it over in her embarrassment.] Skyler! [She's quick to pick the cup off the floor, thankful for no spills.]

Didn't Michael say he'd lock you in a locker or something if that ever happened? [She's pretty sure she remembers this threat.]

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And I said I'd only do it if you weren't basically twelve. [ He snickers again, but it quickly fades out to something more genuine. ] You're still basically twelve.

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I am fourteen! [She is very proud of this fact mister, very very proud.]

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Twelve. [ He grins, then gets up from the table, checking the table for anything he may have forgotten. ] Too little for life. You ready?

[keywarding]

[She could toss her cup at him but she's sure he'd manage to dodge and then she'd probably hit some poor person behind him so she just frowns at him before grabbing her bag and standing up.]

Yes, so where to 'oh buyer of chocolate'?