dear_mun | (no subject)

Boooring.

[Well excuse me and my headspace for not being all that interesting? Come on, lighten up.]

No no, that's not it! It's just we're not really doing anything, are we? I'm not getting any customers up here, I can't go out to the country to visit Ursula and I can't even write to my parents back home.

I've been looking at those games you've been looking at too you know. It all seems like a lot of work, do you think you can manage? Even with me helping you it's going to be hard.

[Says the girl who left home at thirteen to start her training.]

But everything is okay now, putting me in a game would be like starting off all over again. There might not be another Osono to offer me a place to stay and to help get the delivery service underway.

[I can worry about the 'where you're staying' part and getting you back on your feet, if you even end up going somewhere.]

Even so! I'll be leaving Tombo and his fantastic flying machine, and Jiji too! There's so much to think about, much more than moving to a town away from home. This is a whole new world...

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If my mun finds me a game, I won't be leaving anyone behind. I've got people here in her head, but she's starting over with me, so it'll be like I never met them.

[Mary shrugs, trying not to sound upset]

You left home when you were thirteen? I went away to school at eleven. Not sure if she'll bother to find me someplace like home. I miss the castle.

There are plenty of other people in my mun's head, just no one that I really know. It's actually a little crowded too. [It's a lot like starting over already.]

Did you really used to live in a castle? Goodness, that sounds like quite the home. I used to live in a wonderful little room over a bakery looking out across the sea.

I've got loads here, most of them from the game she first put me in. Family and friends. It actually doesn't really feel crowded, considering; she tends to picture us having our own space.

Oh yes. In Scotland. My school's called Hogwarts, and we learn magic there. Charms is my best subject, Potions is second best.

[Mary's only boasting a little. She'll stop now.]

That sounds really nice. [And it does. Reminds Mary of Ravenclaw Tower, except she didn't have a sea view.]

I see, so you're a witch too! You must have worked very hard to be talented in both potions and... Charms?

[Her mother was exceptional at brewing potions, though she's never heard of charms at all. At least not in the magical sense anyway.]

My talent is flying, though someday I wouldn't mind learning how to make potions like my mom.

I'm only a third year, it took forever to be any good at Potions. Professor Snape's a horror, looming the way he does. Almost makes me wish I'd been Sorted into Slytherin. At least I'm not a Gryffindor, he'd probably have failed me just for existing.

[You'll have to excuse Mary, she's so happy to be talking to another witch she doesn't share space with that she's kind of forgetting not everyone knows what she's going on about.]

I'm getting better at flying, though sometimes I still get nervous if I go up too high. [She'll just not mention that for her, 'too high' is roughly about twenty feet.]

What kind of potions does your mother make?

[All the talk of being sorted and professors seem to be going over her head a little.]

I'm sorry miss, but a lot of those terms you're using I'm not really familiar with. I'm sorry... But when it comes to flying you shouldn't be nervous! If you find the proper motivation and inspiration for taking off then flying is lots of fun. [Speaking from experience here.]

As for potions, mom used to make medicines to cure all sorts of things. Potions are her talent like mine is flying I guess.

Oh! [Mary's eyes go wide for a second as she claps a hand over her mouth.]

Sorry! I got carried away. Slytherin and Gryffindor are among two of the Houses we get placed in when we first come to Hogwarts. There's four, the other two being Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. They all value different traits, so there's this enchanted Hat-

[And Mary stops again. Rambling is a bad thing. She turns her attention to the flying.]

Well, we have a game at school that's played on brooms, and it's really exciting, and I'd love to try out for it next term...I suppose that counts as proper motivation? [She grins.]

That's useful, isn't it? We can do the same, but the only one I've learned so far is a general antidote to most poisons.

[She shrugs a little self-consciously, then grins again.] I've got terrible manners. I'm Mary Catherine Malfoy, but you can just call me Mary.

It's pretty fun to explore if you let yourself do it.

Oh, no, I agree! Exploring is a lot of fun! When I first set out looking for a new town it was a real thrill.

But to look at how far I've come and what I might lose from going somewhere else... [Sigh. She worked so hard to get where she is now. Sure she could work hard all over again, but it's like building a sandcastle only for it to get kicked down again and the only choice being to rebuild it.]

Guess I can understand that. [ It wasn't easy starting from the beginning all over again. ]

But that's part of the fun, isn't it?

I'm not sure. I don't want to lose my work and inspiration, and all of my new friends. [What if she can't make new friends? The only reason she got her new friends in the first place was because she was at the right place at the right time.]

And besides, I can't just leave Osono and the bakery to go off and live somewhere else! I owe her so much, leaving out of the blue just wouldn't be right.