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[filtered away from alan and mae | so hackable it's barely even a filter]

So... magic. I've heard a lot about it here, and I was wondering... what's magic in everyone else's world like? Dangerous, or common, or... er, not so common? It's a universal word, but it seems to mean a lot of different things.

I was just... curious.

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... I think I'm cursed.

Well, not the kind of curse that usually goes on here, but actually cursed. I swear three toasters this week have disappeared! One minute they were in the kitchen, and the next they'd just gone. Either I'm living in a sentient apartment that eats toasters, or I have an... an anti-toaster curse on me. Or maybe the toasters are alive. It's all probably possible, in a place like this.

All I want is toasted bread in the morning! Apparently that is too much to ask for.

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[Jamie rests his head on her shoulder, hugging her back. Above all else, Mae's still got his back-- he knows that. It's always been him and her, toughing things out. Gerald hadn't understood that. He'd said that everyone ended up hating magicians for what they were, but Jamie couldn't imagine Mae hating him. It was what had kept him away from the Circle, away from Gerald, in the end. Maybe families didn't always have to be broken apart just because one of its members happened to be a little magical.]

Thanks, Mae. [He mumbles that quietly. It's for a lot of things-- for protecting him, for killing a magician for him, for being possibly the most awesome sister in the universe.] But I'll be okay. I mean, we don't have to move out. I can be a mature and responsible adult, after all. And I can manage serious banter, too, I'm sure.

[He figures it's a pretty good start for a sixteen year old who only very rarely remembers to bring the right books to school. But he puts on a half-smile, going for the humour again.] At least I haven't been drowning my sorrows lately. No more unfriendly stairs.

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You don't have to grow up so fast...[Even if it's what they've done - both of them - Mae wishes she could have kept Jamie (and herself) in that state of careless teenager. But things change when you canoodle with demons, she guesses.]

Although I'm sure your knees welcome the respite...[She grows quiet for a moment, pondering still on the fact that their lives have changed so much - and will keep changing for Jamie, until he too will cry and she'll wish to keep it from happening all over again - and how many things she's missing here that she never thought she'd miss.]

We should hold a pijama party.

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I wouldn't say it's fast. Just... a bit more accelerated than a normal pace. [Which is basically a roundabout way of saying fast. But.

If Jamie knew what the future held-- any of it-- he'd probably be even gladder for his time in the City. It's a place where he doesn't have to hide who he is, because there's so many people with similar abilities. It's a place where people wouldn't hate him for it, would understand.

And it's a place where no magicians are sending demons after humans. Where Jamie's feelings are less complicated because the source of them is very, very far away.]

Can it also be a junk food and movie party?

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Still. [She gives him one last squeeze and pulls away with a surprised blink.]

There are movies here? [She welcomes the news - and the distraction.] Oh, wonderful - I thought we'd be living in a cosmopolite void. I think the City just redeemed itself.

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It's not quite a void. They have regular mobile phones and everything, too. And luckily, the movies they have aren't all costume dramas.

[... because then Jamie would die of boredom. He prefers sword-fighting movies with shirtless men.]

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Great. Then we'll raid the stores for chips and junk food, and rent some movies - we can rent them, right? I'm not sure how much money I've got on me...