Xaviers!

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2018 9:09 pm**

"Are you sure?" She looks hopeful, but some part of her still thinks it might be the connection talking.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2018 9:11 pm**

"I knew I had to change. We both knew that, didn't we?"

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:58 pm**

"Well, there's change and then there's... change."

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2018 11:13 pm**

"The way I was worked for me, but just for me."

"I can do better."

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2018 11:22 pm**

"Maybe we both need to be better."

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2018 11:24 pm**

"Why? All you did was try not to get me killed."

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2018 11:48 pm**

"I also need to be less... frightened."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 12:48 am**

"There's a lot out there worth being frightened of."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 12:56 am**

"I'm not talking about being foolish... I'm talking about trusting you. Trusting... whatever this is."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:56 am**

"This wasn't your world. Or you didn't know it was. Nobody told you that you'd be facing wights or that the shadows held wolves."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:57 am**

"But I should know that not every shadow contains something to jump at."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:09 am**

"And I should cultivate a reaction that's not wanting to murder anything that looks at you crosseyed."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:56 am**

“I’ll help if I can, but I don’t ever want to force anything on you.”

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:34 pm**

"...I should stop blaming you for the changes I don't want to make."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:38 pm**

"As I said," Wanda says softly, "things to work on." She holds out both her hands, palms up.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:41 pm**

She takes a deep breath before clasping Wanda's hands.

"...we can make this fair. We can make this what you want, what you need."

"Just... don't leave me alone again."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:44 pm**

"We'll make this what you want and need too," Wanda says, squeezing Isolde's hands. As she does so, the connection opens back up and the sensations flood in both directions.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:51 pm**

There's a fading undercurrent of frustration and loneliness, rapidly being washed over by simple relief.

"...thank you," she murmurs.

"Should we tell your friend I didn't eat you?"

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:56 pm**

Isolde picks up on the young woman approaching the door before she appears in the doorway, "I guessed as much, since my windows were still intact and I hadn't heard thunder."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:58 pm**

"...I'm almost afraid to ask what she's said about me."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 6:11 pm**

"That's between me and her," the young woman says with a mischievous grin.

Wanda shakes her head, "Isolde, this is Kara. She's a friend and something of a kindred spirit for me in spiritual matters."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 6:57 pm**

"I ought to introduce her to Erica. I'm sure they'd get along famously."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:04 pm**

"I'm sure they would," Wanda says, obviously not believing it. Either way, the reference seems lost on Kara.

"So you staying for dinner or do you need to get back? Someone brought a lovely bag of kebab," Kara says with a smile.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:13 pm**

"Ah, I can stay. I'm a free woman these days."

She lifts up her leg to show the absence of an anklet.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:20 pm**

"I was meaning to talk to the Headmistress about that. Glad to see it got taken care of," Wanda says.

"I'll just go get the plates served up then," Kara says, heading back towards the kitchen.

"You sure you don't need any help?" Wanda calls after her.

"No. I'm all set. There's not enough room in the kitchen for us all anyway."

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:55 pm**

"It's kebabs. You can eat them in an alleyway if you're so inclined," the voice of experience says as she makes her way over.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 9:11 pm**

"Yes, and then they drip all over the place and make a mess that I have to clean up," Kara says good-naturedly.

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2018 8:50 pm**

"Things are starting to settle down back at campus," she says as she sits down.

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2018 9:00 pm**

"That's good," Wanda says, "I think everyone needs that."

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2018 9:01 pm**

"Relative term as always, I'm sure you know."

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:00 pm**

"It would live up to the name if it was 100% quiet," Wanda says, taking Isolde's hand again. "We'll eat and then get out of Kara's hair."

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:55 pm**

"God knows she doesn't need our kind of trouble, eh?"

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2019 6:01 pm**

"Like everyone, she has some issues of her own. But she's become a good friend since I moved to Maldon, so I try to help her out."

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2019 8:21 pm**

"I'm not trying to make her issues seem small. Just we have a tendency to complicate things just by being around, no?"

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2019 8:22 pm**

"Yes, but what would happen without us? You did have a point about not being able to run from everything."

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2019 8:57 pm**

"We're presently living with a lot of other people who complicate things just by existing."

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2019 8:59 pm**

"Probably one of the better places for us then, I guess," she says with a shrug, "Although, I don't think I want to go back there just yet."

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2019 9:04 pm**

Isolde's wry smirk is wiped clean.

"...I already told you I'd go anywhere you wanted."

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2019 11:15 pm**

"You're a free woman now. How about we go somewhere you want?" Then, with just a bit of a tease she adds, "Like a dive bar or a mega-steakhouse?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 03, 2019 8:43 pm**

"We can... talk about that," she says as a bit of smile returns.

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