Story: Middle Part 7 - racking up the numbers... but not the words.
[[Continuity Note: Figure it out, moron!]]
On Friday afternoon, Alf walked home with Jessica. He and she had
become somewhat friendly in the past week. It turned out that Jessica
didn't have many friends because she couldn't share her secret with
anyone and it was quite a large one. Alf of course, had no friends
besides the best-left-forgotten Damien. As a result of their budding
friendship, Alf spent most of his afternoons with Jessica, but this
afternoon was special since that night he would be heading to
Switzerland via portal mirror.
It had only taken a few minutes for Jessica's parents to convince Alf's
that it would be perfectly safe to take Alf with them to the council
meeting. Alf suspected magical intervention of some variety, they were
usually quite overprotective of their only son. It actually took a lot
of convincing that he was okay when he walked home from school. Since
his magical revelation, he'd experienced the most freedom he'd had in
his entire life. Alf wasn't certain if his parents thought he was safer
now that he had magical powers, if they were just intimidated by
Jessica's parents (who certainly seemed to radiate a strange sort of
otherworldliness, despite their protestations that they were completely
human), or if Jessica's parents were acting unethically.
In fact, that brought up a number of thoughts. Alf had asked Jessica
one day if there was some scientific difference between people with and
without magic. Jessica stated that there wasn't, though using magic you
could discern a number of differences. She then proceeded to go into
them, but Alf ignored her, seeing with his ears shut. And the niggling
thought that maybe Jessica's parents thought they were above other
people. It seemed as though all they wanted to do was control how other
people behaved. Alf didn't express these thoughts to anyone, though.
And dimly he wondered if people had the ability to read people's minds,
and he tried not to think of these things while in Jessica's house. He
figured that that power must be nullified by distance so only thought
these things from the privacy of his wardrobe.
[[Idol, dinner sleep... man, I wanted to write more tonight... but I
have to sleep otherwise I'll never wake up tomorrow and I have an exam.]]
posted by Cedric @ 7:42 pm
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