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[carmesi]

Who: wanda maximoff + others
When: september/october
Where: solvunn, horizon, nocwich
What: catch-all for the month! including quest, and general top-levels for solvunn. horizon threads based on request! additionally, she'll be in nocwich teaching high magic basics.
Warnings: blood??

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[theidlemaiden]

[ The answer, simple or not, works. It's not as if magic is foreign to her of course but the sort of magic she's familiar with is more nature aligned. Fire, thunder, light, darkness – forces of nature that can be conjured from thin air. It's so different from the magic Wanda is capable of. Of the New Magic in the Free Cities. 

Hilda catches the pinched look on her friend's face but before she can read into it more, Wanda's question gives her pause. And of course the pause gives rise to mild panic. Pain pricks at her again like the claws of a dragon dragging lightly into her wounds. ] 

I fought a couple of them. Not on purpose, mind you. 

[ It's not admitting to anything but it's not lying either. She looks to Wanda. ] 

Did you? 

[carmesi]

— yeah.

[wanda wonders if, based on the panic rising in hilda, if she expects to be chastised. or if something else is the matter altogether. with a light shake of her head, wanda studies her friend for a moment.]

I just want to make sure you're okay.

[because, in the end, that's what friends do.]

I know you're not unfamiliar with danger, but I can still worry.

[at this, wanda offers hilda a small smile.]

[theidlemaiden]

[ Panic gives way to worry when Wanda answers her manifested as a little line between her forehead. Forcefully she smothers her panic that doesn't serve her here.

She's never seen Wanda fight, seen only a sliver of what she suspects her magic can do. Without ever seeing that though Hilda knows Wanda is more than capable - but she knows that anything can happen in a split second to even the most capable, talented fighter.

She reaches out to clasp Wanda's hand. ]

If you can worry then so can I. Did something happen? You'd tell me if something did, wouldn't you?

[carmesi]

I—

[she pauses, considering her words.]

I can't remember if something did. Not clearly, anyway. [and then a shake of her head, holding hilda's hand in return and squeezing it.] I think it's something I would rather forget. It was a rough month.

[for all of them, she thinks.]

[theidlemaiden]

[ Wanda's answer is less than comforting but her worried expression doesn't betray the niggling sense that her friend is hiding something from her. It's a familiar sense, one developed after years of friendship with Claude. But Wanda is not Claude and if there's anything that Hilda had learned over these last months is that her insecurities would not make her doubt her friends again.

And she isn't wrong. Her hold on Wanda's hand is fierce even though her lips lift humorlessly. As she does, Wanda might get a flash of gnashing, terrifying teeth and claws bigger than Hilda digging into flesh. ]

I'll say. Do you think Matt will be mad if we get some dessert beforehand? I think we both deserve it.

[carmesi]

[wanda does get a flash of gnashing, terrifying teeth and huge claws digging into flesh. wanda feels the ghost feeling of what pain that would cause, and it frightens her— frightens her to think how close many of her loved ones could be to death at any given time.

green eyes, welled in tears, look up at hilda's words, and she nods.]

Yeah.

[they can do with something sweet. as her hand tightens on hilda's, so does a tight smile lift into her expression. they'll get their dessert and be comforted in the fact that they are here, together, at the moment. to wanda, it's not that they're unwilling to speak to one another truthfully—it's just that some things are too close to one's heart to put into words that won't shred it into bloody bits.

perhaps they will manage, too, a genuine smile, amidst their dessert and baby lizards.]